<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Menlo; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">In all those cases I think there should be some core contributors who<br>know the real identity of the contributor. These must also know the<br>reason for the anonymity and agree that it's important to maintain it.<br>It must also be known to the community at large that the contributor<br>is using a pseudonym. If the contributor is not comfortable revealing<br>their identity to any core contributors, I don't think there is enough<br>of a trust relationship to build on for a successful career as a<br>contributor to Python.<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I do think that python-dev should be clear that by "real" identity you mean "legal" identity.</div><div><br></div><div>There are plenty of cases where the name a person is known by in more "real" situations is not in fact their legal name. There are also cases where legal names are different in different jurisdictions; especially people with CJK names may have different orthographies of the "same" name in different jurisdictions or even completely different names in different places, if they have immigrated to a different country.</div><div><br></div><div>So there should be a legal name on file somewhere for copyright provenance purposes, but this should not need to be the same name that is present in commit logs, as long as there's a mapping recorded that can be made available to any interested lawyer.</div><div><br></div><div>(Hopefully this is not a practical issue, but this is one of my pet peeves - for obvious reasons.)</div><div><br></div><div>-glyph</div><div><br></div></body></html>