[Mesa-dev] Requiring a full author name when contributing to mesa?

[Timothy Arceri]

On 12/12/19 10:09 am, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM Timothy Arceri <tarceri at itsqueeze.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So it seems lately we have been increasingly merging patches with made
>> up names, or single names etc [1]. The latest submitted patch has the
>> name Icecream95. This seems wrong to me from a point of keeping up the
>> integrity of the project. I'm not a legal expert but it doesn't seem
>> ideal to be amassing commits with these type of author tags from that
>> point of view either.
>>
>> Is it just me or do others agree we should at least require a proper
>> name on the commits (as fake as that may be also)? Seems like a low bar
>> to me.
> 
> I'm of the opinion that in fact all names are made up, and we don't
> want to be getting into the business of requiring legal names for
> committing.  If legal names were what you were getting at: have you
> checked the legal names of your fellow contributors match what they're
> contributing under?

My question was: "do others agree we should at least require a proper 
name on the commits (as fake as that may be also)?"

> 
> I don't know what legal risk you might be thinking of, that seems like
> spreading fear for no reason to me.

If the implications aren't obvious I'm not going to bother arguing 
further, as I'm not a legal expert. I'm more concerned about the look of 
the project. IMO contributions with names like Icecream95 just look 
unprofessional.