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[34.125.255.209]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id d2e1a72fcca58-74ce4180e47sm8234243b3a.103.2025.07.06.22.28.48 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Junio C Hamano From: Junio C Hamano To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Ayush Chandekar , "brian m. carlson" , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , redoste Subject: Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: allow non-real name contributions In-Reply-To: <20250707030609.GA13852@mit.edu> (Theodore Ts'o's message of "Sun, 6 Jul 2025 23:06:09 -0400") References: <20250706163009.335780-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> <2DBEA13C-5E74-4314-9A39-E045A0BC221E@gmail.com> <20250707030609.GA13852@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:28:48 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "Theodore Ts'o" writes: > ... advice and review of lawyers employed or contracted by the Linux > Foundation. (The Developers of Certification Origin had quite a lot > of input for lawyers to make sure it would work in multiple legal > jourisdictions.) > > So for example, it's not just about copyright concerns vis-a-vis > anonymous contributions. It's also about OFAC Sanctions[1], since an > anonymous contributor might be someone working for a Sanctioned Entity > trying to bypass them. These are excellent points. All the more reasons why not just we cannot but we do not want to take anonymous contributions to protect ourselves. Thanks.