> I believe I understand. However, I believe a non-disclosure policy is > against the ethics of free software. NDA's are a major characteristic > of non-free/proprietary software. Perhaps my choice of term was inaccurate, but there are certainly similar things in open source projects. Debian requires verification of a real name by physically sighting government-issued ID. Most projects of substantial size have a private list for the core developers, and sometimes keep new announcements under wraps for a time. If there is a policy about real names then enforcing it based on whether something "looks like" a real name is odd. I can see a case for requiring people to use "reasonable" names (not confusable, not just punctuation, not offensive, etc). If real names are to be required maybe, as previously discussed, there should be an option to only show them to admins and use a handle publicly. -- Martin
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