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Date:	Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:29:17 -0600
From:	Adrian Cornish <a.cornish@...edreamer.com>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust [resend gmail
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On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com> wrote:
> Just thinking about it, but even if lawyers have been involved, this
> has been done, unless error of my part, behind closed doors, without
> any public records, so I'd tempted to ask "who paid those lawyers?",
> "what was the qualification of those lawyers?", "what was the interest
> of those lawyers?" and "what was the interest of those who paid the
> lawyers?".
>
> Moreover, the commit message's subject states "We can not allow
> anonymous contributions to the kernel", however it fails to describe
> who's behind "we".
>
> Finally, I'd be tempted to make a difference between "Anonymous" and
> "Pseudonymous".
Just because someone decided to use a different name it does not mean they
broke any laws - generally if you are not making the change to defraud
someone it is fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_change


Adrian (or am I)
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