On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 04:53:16PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > the license is granted to the world, so the world has an interest in it.
Certainly, but you need to have overriding legitimate grounds. An interest is not enough for justification. You have to weight your interests against those of the subject. > Unless you are going to argue that the GDPR outlawed open source > development. No it certainly did not and I don't see how it could. All the GDPR arguably demands is that the author's identity is deleted from a public repository if he wishes so. Just assume it was a CVS repo. Then removal would not be any issue at all. It is a technical speciality of git that makes the removal so intricate to implement, which is not at all an intrinsic property of open source development. > you are the one arguing that the GDPR prohibits Git from storing and > revealing this license granting data, not me. It prohibits publishing, and only after a request to be forgotten. It does not prohibit storing your private copy. Best wishes Peter -- Peter Backes, r...@helen.plasma.xg8.de
