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[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Vid Ayer <svaksha at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/25/08, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> > > I believe I understand. However, I believe a non-disclosure policy is
> > > against the ethics of free software. NDA's are a major characteristic
> > > of non-free/proprietary software.
> >
> > Perhaps my choice of term was inaccurate, but there are certainly
> > similar things in open source projects. Debian requires verification
> > of a real name by physically sighting government-issued ID.
>
> .... but this situation is very different and cant fully be compared
> with Debian mainly because it is completely *free* and LP is not.
> Secondly in Debian they are strict with names because of commit access
> which I gather is not the case with LP beta testing. A DD will not
> sign your key unless he/she has met you *and* verified your
> identification. Fwiw, the DPL has signed my key but the real name
> policy while being an overkill also takes away *my* freedom and that
> is not very friendly and somewhat goes against the Ubuntu philosophy
> too.


I wonder how the "real name" policy works out for people who present
themselves as their gender, but not as their legal biological sex?  The
person's government-issued ID may say her name is Steve Jones, but to
everyone else, she's Katie Jones.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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