From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935596Ab1JEX53 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:57:29 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48875 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935554Ab1JEX52 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:57:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:55:41 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Arnaud Lacombe Cc: Adrian Bunk , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, "Frank Ch. Eigler" , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust Message-ID: <20111005235541.GA4328@suse.de> References: <201110021354.57995.rjw@sisk.pl> <4E88A537.4010008@zytor.com> <20111003093239.GB25136@localhost.pp.htv.fi> <20111003180441.GD3072@localhost.pp.htv.fi> <34045.1317760188@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20111004223932.GA3460@localhost.pp.htv.fi> <20111005201904.GC14406@localhost.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:36:50PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:00:39PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>... > >> > Each time a patch goes through him into the kernel, he certifies that > >> > his real name is Andrew Morton. > >> > > >> > If that would not be his real name, it would make him somewhere between > >> > completely untrustable and punishable at court. > >> > > >> Under which jurisdiction ? Under which law ? > >> > >> IANAL, but US copyright law does recognize the use of pseudonym for > >> copyrighted work[0], without requirements to disclose one's legal > >> name. > > > > I am not talking about copyright law. > > > > When you add a Signed-off-by: to a patch you have to use your real name > > (see Documentation/SubmittingPatches for details). > > > > If violating that would be considered fraud or some other crime in some > > jurisdictions is likely a non-trivial question. > > > One might still question the legality/constitutionality of such a > statement. AFAIK, Greg KH, author of the sentence (in af45f32d25c) is > not a lawyer. How do you not know that such a sentance was not vetted by a lawyer? :) > Have the DCO clauses been legally validated ? Lawyers were involved in it. What do you mean by "validated"? greg k-h