Post #1383329
2026-04-12 16:22 UTC
@miss_rodent also to be a bit more clear on the legal identity thing...
We don't want or need your government approved name for many reasons including your privacy. But we do need a way to uniquely identify you which internet pseudonyms are more than adequate for.
As mentioned previously, the defunct contributors means it's unlikely that we'll change/grant an exception to a license, we still don't want to completely rule it out as a potential possibility it we decide to attempt it.
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@miss_rodent@girlcock.club 2026-04-12 17:45
@grimmy To be fair, 27 years ago when the project started, assuming that there would be some sort of entity capable of holding the copyright on contributed code, and bing responsible for it, was... a perfectly reasonable assumption. Until relatively recently 'generated' code was generally deterministic, the liability/accountability/sources of potential license problems landscape has shifted pretty significantly, pretty suddenly.