Usually development and publishing companies have an anonymous contact page on their website, and no easy way of getting to know the identity of any of their employees (besides the executives). And this is for privacy and competition reasons. It should not be any different for hobbyist developers who cannot afford to throw their name in the open. Anyway there should be no question of that since you have signed up for an account or more to LL in agreement to their privacy policies in the first place.
Besides, you can't find the full name of a Linden Lab employee unless they disclose it themselves (I think, maybe there is a public register somewhere or something). I don't see why we, the developers who work partly for LL at improving their platform for free, would have less rights to privacy than the people who are paid by them and who are protected. This is a non-issue anyway, most people will not agree to expose their RL identity on LL's website just to list a piece of work of theirs, unless said piece of work is required to be listed in order to be accepted on their grid. And I have not read anything anywhere that was even remotely implying such a thing. If this was required, expect most viewers to be stopped dead in their tracks. On 25 févr. 2010, at 11:10, Darren Gansberg <darm...@tpg.com.au> wrote: > Henri Beauchamp wrote: >> >> Because you can actually know who are *all* the real persons behind >> *any* >> Open Source project ?... You know, people do use pseudonyms a lot, on >> Internet... Anyway, no where in the GPL will you find that a >> developper >> *must* disclose their true identity > No of course you can't. Additionally the developer shouldn't be forced > to disclose their identity. What i was taking exception with was the > view that the identity of the developer is no one's business. As i > said > it's the users business. But the appropriate solution to the user not > knowing the identity of the person responsible for writing a piece of > code is for the user not to install and use that program on their > system > if they arent comfortable of knowing its source. That said i don't > think > it's necessarily a great attitude to take that your not prepared to > put > your identity to your own doings. And i adopt that view to all > manner of > things software development aside. > > Darren > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
