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itaru@mstdn.party

Itaru Kitayama

Does the Linux kernel community accept anonymous contributions? I now wonder for the first time in a while.

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vbabka

Vlastimil Babka

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@itaru it was recently amended to allow "known identity" and not only "real name" but still not completely "anonymous" see https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#developer-s-certificate-of-origin-1-1 also @gregkh did that change IIRC.
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itaru@mstdn.party

Itaru Kitayama

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@vbabka @gregkh thank you! As a person subscribing to the famous @asb ’s LLVM Weekly letter , often nicknames or first names only have discussions. Thus I wondered a bit.

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gregkh

Greg K-H

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@vbabka @itaru It was not me, it was Linus over a year ago and I acked the change, as did the LF head of legal, see the commit log text for more information about it: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330
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