From kde-community  Wed Apr 17 05:05:28 2019
From: Christoph Cullmann <christoph () cullmann ! io>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 05:05:28 +0000
To: kde-community
Subject: Re: Anonymous contributions
Message-Id: <34bba20aa97845b7c3d80403e1b44427 () cullmann ! io>
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Hi,

>> Whether or not we can be sure that a string is a name should not be 
>> relevant to us.
> 
> Just answering to say that this is actually what we're actually
> discussing in this thread.
> 
> Can/Should we accept anonymous contributions (and thus we should not
> care about a string being a name) or not?
> 
> I think the most sensible answer from the whole thread was the one
> from David Edmundson "we should contact a lawyer".

should we then ask the e.V. if we can get a statement from some lawyer 
if it makes a difference
for us legally if we start accepting "Foobar <something@somewhere.x>" in 
addition to "Unverified Something <yyy@lll.z>"
as authorship identification?

Greetings
Christoph

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