Doubt concerning releasing code anonymously
Mahesh T. Pai
paivakil at yahoo.co.in
Sun Feb 28 04:39:17 UTC 2010
Chris Travers said on Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:30:44AM -0800,:
> The major reason not to do this however is verifiability. If you
> don't attach your own name to the code, it may be harder for some
> folks to verify that you really did a) write the code and b) license
> under the described terms. I don't really see a reason to release
> code anonymously though occasionally some of the projects I have
> worked on have accepted contributions from long-standing pseudonymous
> community members. This is fairly rare though.
How many here will
(1) sign a pseudonymous GPG key?
(2) Trust a guy who signs a pseudonymous GPG key?
How many here will donwload and use a software which is not signed by
a GPG key?
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