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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