On Fri, Jun 08 2018, Peter Backes wrote: > 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. This basically the same as saying the whole notion of Signed-off-by should be abandoned entirely, since in this case the fork will only have a partial set of these. The point is that we're recording information so each line in the repository can be traced back to a SOB. These sorts of take-downs would destroy that information, and the proposed solution of having some party retain these creates a special class of free software users who are capable of following that line of attributions.
