From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 21:04:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E2F1065689; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:04:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6858FC08; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:04:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1467D46B2A; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:04:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:04:24 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Marc Fonvieille In-Reply-To: <20090602203111.GA8762@gothic.blackend.org> Message-ID: References: <200906021154.n52BsOj2024305@repoman.freebsd.org> <4A2515B1.5030107@FreeBSD.org> <873aaisg7x.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20090602203111.GA8762@gothic.blackend.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Dmitry Marakasov , Giorgos Keramidas , doc-committers@freebsd.org, Gabor Kovesdan Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors contrib.additional.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the doc and www trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:04:26 -0000 On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Marc Fonvieille wrote: >> Yes, this makes sense. I think one should be proud for every one of their >> contributions to FreeBSD, so listing real names sounds like a Good Thing. >> > [...] > > Well, we cannot force people to give their "real" name if they don't want > to. Everyone is free to choose and everyone can have his own reasons. > Refusing to give credits or to add someone to the contributors list cause he > prefers to not give his real name will not give a positive image of the > project. On the other hand, what are we calling a "real name"? Something > that looks like a "person name"? It can be a fake... For the purposes of copyright attribution, use of legal names for entities (be it individuals or companies) is quite important. What "legal name" means in different countries varies significantly, but we should make a best effort attempt to ensure that all copyright attributions are correct for non-trivial contributions. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge