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Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 2 20:51:57 UTC 2009


> Well, we cannot force people to give their "real" name if they don't
> want to.  Everyone is free to choose and everyone can have his own
> reasons.  Refusing to give credits or to add someone to the contributors
> list cause he prefers to not give his real name will not give a positive
> image of the project.
> On the other hand, what are we calling a "real name"?  Something that
> looks like a "person name"?  It can be a fake...
>   
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough, of course, I didn't mean to force 
anybody to do anything, I would just explain that it is a virtue and 
that we would prefer if contributors gave us their real names. And of 
course, I wouldn't remove any of those who don't want to do so or just 
don't reply, just the bouncing entries.

> This seems like a useful thing to do, and a small chunk of work for
> someone with a bit of spare time.  If you feel like doing it then
> that's fine.  Otherwise, just let me know and I'll do it.
I'm willing to do it but unfortunately I don't have time to do it until 
the end of the next week (SoC + university exams). If you feel like 
doing it and you have some spare time, I'd be grateful to you if you did 
it. I just explained above how I imagined it, i.e. no forcing, just 
telling the preference and the advantages of being listed with the real 
name. I hope this doesn't seem offending to anyone.

-- 
Gabor Kovesdan
FreeBSD Volunteer

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