"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > ... advice and review of lawyers employed or contracted by the Linux > Foundation. (The Developers of Certification Origin had quite a lot > of input for lawyers to make sure it would work in multiple legal > jourisdictions.) > > So for example, it's not just about copyright concerns vis-a-vis > anonymous contributions. It's also about OFAC Sanctions[1], since an > anonymous contributor might be someone working for a Sanctioned Entity > trying to bypass them. These are excellent points. All the more reasons why not just we cannot but we do not want to take anonymous contributions to protect ourselves. Thanks.