Comment Comment by ajross But your signed-off-by was a correct email address with your real identity, as per:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...Right? It's true that all systems can be gamed and you could no doubt fool the right maintainer to take a patch from a fraudulent source. But the point is that it's not as simple as this grad student just resubmitting work under a different name. parent ajross 5 years ago
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
Right? It's true that all systems can be gamed and you could no doubt fool the right maintainer to take a patch from a fraudulent source. But the point is that it's not as simple as this grad student just resubmitting work under a different name.