Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:42:28 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> Cc: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 106547 for review Message-ID: <20060923204228.02eeed4e@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20060923130259.04d759ce@kan.dnsalias.net> References: <200609231209.k8NC9LKZ054036@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060923121912.568e1d9a@kan.dnsalias.net> <20060923183824.203b8f11@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20060923130259.04d759ce@kan.dnsalias.net>
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Quoting Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> (Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:02:59 -0400):
> > > I am worried about accepting anonymous contributions into our tree.
> > > Who is to answer if someday anonymous benefactor will send us
> > > proprietary or GPLed code?
> >
> > Who can guarantee that "Hugo Egon" <hme4711@hotmail.com> is really
> > Hugo Egon and developed the stuff on his own? What about "Ports
> > Fury" (grep the commit logs for it)? What about "Alexander Leidinger"
> > <Alexander@Leidinger.net> or "Alexander Kabaev" <kabaev@gmail.com>?
> Last two are easy. You can be traced to people who recommended for a
> commit bit, at the very least. Ports Fufy has live witnesses of its
> existence. Some anonymous people on the lists, like
> LONE<something> character, I forgot an exact spelling, uses uses his
> real name in PRs. I doubt you will find massive evidence of anonymous
> coders in src/. Ports are little more liberal, but not by much.
I ask him if he is willing to provide his real name for the commit to
CVS. We can discuss this further after I got an answer.
Bye,
Alexander.
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