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(such as coreboot) require a legal name, which can be problematic for certain groups of people.
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- Using your legal name is <b>not</b> required when submitting patches to libreboot. For reasons why we have this policy, read <a href='http://geekfeminism.org/2012/09/29/quick-hit-how-git-shows-the-patriarchal-nature-of-the-software-industry/'>this article</a>. You can use an assumed name, or your company name (if you have one), if you want or need to do that. You can also
+ Using your legal name is <b>not</b> required when submitting patches to libreboot. For reasons why we have this policy, read <a href='http://geekfeminism.org/2012/09/29/quick-hit-how-git-shows-the-patriarchal-nature-of-the-software-industry/'>this article</a>. You can use an alias, or your company name (if you have one), if you want or need to do that. You can also
submit patches <i>without a name</i>, if you want or need to do that (instructions are provided on this page). Also, read <a href='http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/'>this article</a>. Unfortunately, git appears to be stuck with these problems, when an author changes their name, and we don't have a concrete answer to it.
As far as we know, publishing your legal name isn't even required for copyright purposes; in fact, &quot;pen&quot; names are commonly used by literary authors.
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If you wish to use a different author name for the commit command, add <b><i>--author=&quot;Author's Name &lt;author's email address&gt;&quot;</i></b> at the end. This
- could be an assumed name, or it could be because you are submitting a patch on someone else's
+ could be an alias, or it could be because you are submitting a patch on someone else's
behalf. <b>If you wish to be anonymous (no name), you can also use <i>Libreboot Contributor</i> as your name, and <i>noname@libreboot.org</i> as the email address. <i>We will happily accept anonymous contributions in the libreboot project.</i></b>
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