From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754154Ab0JXBsK (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:48:10 -0400 Received: from eddie.linux-mips.org ([78.24.191.182]:56587 "EHLO cvs.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752465Ab0JXBsJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:48:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:48:04 +0100 (BST) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Zimny Lech cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mmotm 2010-09-28-16-13 uploaded In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <201009282344.o8SNiliN024981@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <4CA4D61C.2010909@gmail.com> <4CA4E76E.1050602@gmail.com> <20101004161600.8cdf4e0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Zimny Lech wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: N.P.S. > > > > We prefer that signoffs have real names in them, please. > > > > Do "Zimny Lech" sounds real enough? :) FWIW neither is a real name and I have troubles understanding why a contributor would want to play tricks like this, but there you go... There are legal reasons we want to keep accurate records of contributions to the Linux kernel for -- this is free software and we want to do our best so as to keep its legal status clear. This is explained in greater detail in Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Please do keep this in mind. Maciej