Rockbox.org home
Downloads
release
dev builds
extras
themes
Documentation
manual
wiki
device status
Support
forums
mailing lists
IRC
Development
bugs
patches
dev guide
Search



Donate

Rockbox mail archive

Subject: Re: Legal issues, names, privacy, and pseudonyms
From: Fred Maxwell (rockbox_at_anti-spam.org)
Date: 2004-06-09

Björn Stenberg wrote:

> It is well established that anonymity breeds
> irresponsibility, and lawyers know it too.

I've never heard such a claim and, frankly, it sounds like a propaganda
poster one might find in a Communist China Internet Cafe.

In this case, we have someone who is anonymous and is behaving very
responsibly. As John De Armond suggested, Bluechip could have easily
just given you a name from a phone book and you'd be none the wiser.
But Bluechip is apparently not willing to lie. I think that says a lot
more about his character than any name he might give you.

> What I'm saying is that I want Rockbox to be
> sparkling clean without a speck of suspicion
> when lawyers come around digging for dirt.

How does having someone give you a name, which may or may not be their
own, protect Rockbox in any way? You don't know what they do for a
living, what contracts they may have signed, conflicts of interest they
might have, whether they are honest people, whether they have drinking
problems, etc. All that you are doing is making yourself personally
liable if one of these people ever does contribute code that they don't own.

Regards,
   Fred Maxwell

_______________________________________________
http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox

Page was last modified "Jan 10 2012" The Rockbox Crew
aaa