From: Peter Backes Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:03:20 GMT Subject: Re: GDPR compliance best practices? Message-ID: <20180608120320.GB12013@helen.PLASMA.Xg8.DE> In-Reply-To: <8736xxzof3.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 10:13:20AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Can you walk us through how anyone would be expected to fork (as create > a new project, not the github-ism) existing projects under such a > regiment? I don't see your point. Copy the repository to fork. Nothing changes about that. Nothing prevents anyone from forking a repository which had some of its author names removed from the commits. > As David Lang notes upthread, "the license is granted to the world, so > the world has an interest in it". I wouldn't be so sure that this line > of argument wouldn't work. As I already stressed, having an interest is not enough. You need to have overriding legitimate grounds. Best wishes Peter -- Peter Backes, rtc@helen.PLASMA.Xg8.DE