Aleen 徐沛文 <pwxu@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> As per https://git-scm.com/docs/SubmittingPatches#sign-off: >> >> Please don’t hide your real name. >> >> I suspect your real name is not Aleen, but something with x and w in >> it. >> > > I have used "Aleen" <aleen42@xxxxxxxxxx> as my GitHub account to > send this pull request, but the e-mail service disgusts me that it > is slow to send emails to the domain "vger.kernel.org". So I > decided to use another mail service to discuss, "Aleen 徐沛文" > <pwxu@xxxxxxxxxxx> as you saw. > > In the open-source world, I usually signed off "Aleen" rather than > "Aleen 徐沛文", and is that necessary to change? Yes. As the URL you were referred to explains, the sign-off procedure is to keep track of provenance of the code, which is a more "legal" formal requirement than just "I use this pseudonym everywhere". When a big company comes to us, claiming that "this code is our intellectual property stolen from us" and pointing at code added by a patch from you, we do not want to see us in the position to have to say "eh, somebody who uses psuedonym X signed DCO, but we do not even know their real name".
