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    CONTRIBUTING: make S-o-b mandatory but pseudonym ok · 9dc1f268
    Pekka Paalanen authored and Pekka Paalanen's avatar Pekka Paalanen committed
    
    
    This was prompted by a recent discussion on #dri-devel IRC channel,
    where the use of pseudonyms to maintain anonymity was said to be a
    normal and accepted practice. See:
    https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/index.php?channel=dri-devel&highlight_names=&date=2021-02-09
    and look for the discussion around pq and Lyude.
    Until then, I was hesitant to accept Signed-off-by's with names that
    looked very much not a real name.
    
    Clarify our documentation that pseudonyms are ok.
    
    Note, that is not what the Linux kernel documentation says today in
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
    which says that pseudonyms are not ok. According to the discussion, this
    should probably be fixed in the kernel too.
    
    Since we are now ok with pseudonyms in Signed-off-by, there is no reason
    left to accept any patches without a Signed-off-by. This clarifies our
    policy and takes the burden of case-by-case consideration away from
    maintainers.
    
    The wording about needing to use a personal email address is my
    addition. The intention is to ensure a globally unique handle for a
    person while that person remains anonymous, so that the Signed-off-by
    cannot be mistaken for someone elses.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
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