On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:21:04 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2009-06-20 kello 08:56 +0200, David Paleino kirjoitti: > > Is material copyrightable under a nickname, instead of a realname? > > Yes, in all jurisdictions I am aware of. It's called a pseudonym and > tends to be explicitly recognized by copyright laws. Ok. > [..] > Debian has traditionally not allowed upload rights (or DD status) to > people whose legal name is not known. The reason is that a lot of power > comes with upload rights, and we want/need some accountability. If you > abuse your power, we need to know whom to blame. Now that I read Ben's mail again, I see that his concern is also about the Maintainer field. I suppose that should be a real name too then? Or is it ok having a pseudonym because it's the sponsor taking responsibility for the upload? (given that using this pseudonym he won't ever become a DD/DM) Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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