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2026-10-29 — Decided by the product thinker on 2026-10-29: the copyright line in LICENSE keeps naming its holder, as the one exception to the rule that no member's login or name appears in tracked files. The MIT licence requires the notice to be kept in copies, and who it names is the copyright holder's own call. Everything else names people by role, the organisation or a standard persona (iss-2610290855523061).
decisiondcn-2610290857020488
2026-10-29 — Decided by the product thinker on 2026-10-29: the copyright line in LICENSE keeps naming its holder, as the one exception to the rule that no member's login or name appears in tracked files. The MIT licence requires the notice to be kept in copies, and who it names is the copyright holder's own call. Everything else names people by role, the organisation or a standard persona (iss-2610290855523061).
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| id | dcn-2610290857020488 |
|---|---|
| type | decision |
| date | 2026-10-29 |
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- iss-2610290855523061Tracked files name the organisation's members and collaborators: about 63 files carry a member's GitHub login or display name, in credits, the plugin manifests, the code-owners file, the mailmap, the committed identity pin, test fixtures, attribution cases, research notes and records. The product thinker ruled on 2026-10-29 that a login appears only in commit metadata (the author and committer of a pushed commit), never in the content of prose or code, and that people are named by role. The one exception the product thinker kept is the copyright line in LICENSE, which still names its holder.