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

[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 would mean to have to
> > create an "anonymous" coder to transfer contributions.
>
> GDPR rights are no absolute -- there are many reasonable exclusions. In
> most cases, code contribution metadata would fall under one or more of
> those exclusions IMHO.

Of potential interest:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180813181231/https://www.npmjs.com/policies/privacy#forgotten

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