Re: [License-discuss] GDPR and code authors...

2018-12-17 Thread Kyle Mitchell
On 2018-08-14 10:08, Alex Rousskov wrote: > On 08/14/2018 06:39 AM, Antoine Thomas wrote: > > > A famous cartoon about coders and development is joking today about the > > right for coders to delete their personal data in a project, because of > > GDPR in Europe. For an open source project, it woul

Re: [License-discuss] GDPR and code authors...

2018-12-17 Thread Kyle Mitchell
Gil, If you haven't already, diff versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the Developer Certificate of Origin: https://developercertificate.org/ It's my understanding national legislation in the UK motivated that change, and for a particular kernel developer, long before GDPR. But it's in the same vein, and go

Re: [License-discuss] GDPR and code authors...

2018-08-15 Thread Bruce Perens
You must be able to preserve information about the copyright holder who granted you rights over their work, and the terms under which they made the grant (the contributor license agreement they signed or the license they applied to the work) for your own legal protection. This is indeed a "legitima

Re: [License-discuss] GDPR and code authors...

2018-08-14 Thread John Cowan
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: There’s also… “berechtigtes Interesse”, don’t know the English term, > which *might* help. IANAL, TINLA. > "Legitimate interest." See < https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/legitimate-interest/>. -- John Cowan http

Re: [License-discuss] GDPR and code authors...

2018-08-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Antoine Thomas dixit: >A famous cartoon about coders and development is joking today about the >right for coders to delete their personal data in a project, because of IIRC the GDPR/DSGVO has an exception for things the author published themselves. An OSS contribution can be considered publicatio

Re: [License-discuss] GDPR and code authors...

2018-08-14 Thread Gil Yehuda
Along these lines, I recently heard a discussion about the relationship between GDPR and contributor license agreements (CLAs). If someone signs a CLA with a foundation or other entity to contribute code, could they request their "data" back (the signed CLA, their github ID, etc.)? Do CLA signature

Re: [License-discuss] GDPR and code authors...

2018-08-14 Thread Alex Rousskov
On 08/14/2018 06:39 AM, Antoine Thomas wrote: > A famous cartoon about coders and development is joking today about the > right for coders to delete their personal data in a project, because of > GDPR in Europe. For an open source project, it would mean to have to > create an "anonymous" coder to

[License-discuss] GDPR and code authors...

2018-08-14 Thread Antoine Thomas
Hello, A famous cartoon about coders and development is joking today about the right for coders to delete their personal data in a project, because of GDPR in Europe. For an open source project, it would mean to have to create an "anonymous" coder to transfer contributions. Please have a look at