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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Date-of-birth in developer applications
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:06:17
Message-Id: 23338.20801.443208.509771@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Date-of-birth in developer applications by Rich Freeman
1 >>>>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Rich Freeman wrote:
2
3 > The "underlying need" is what I'm getting at. Do we REALLY need to
4 > track developers post-retirement? If we do, is DOB really the best
5 > way to do this?
6
7 I would presume that we do, if we need to clarify copyright or
8 licensing of any files in our repositories. I could provide several
9 examples where I had to contact retired devs because of license
10 issues.
11
12 But indeed, knowing their date of birth wouldn't have helped there.
13
14 > And what are we going to do when some retired developer asks us to
15 > forget about them? I don't think legally we need to go retract
16 > published info, but that DOB seems very much the sort of thing that
17 > would be risky to hold on to if somebody explicitly told us they don't
18 > want us to retain it. We'd probably need justification to do so.
19
20 The only justification I can think of is that we may need to know if
21 a developer was of legal age when committing any code. But that seems
22 very theoretical, since we don't even verify anybody's identity.
23
24 Ulrich

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