Re: Guix role in a free society

[Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>]

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Hello Vivien,

Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu> writes:

> Free software enables cooperation in a free society. More precisely, it
> makes it easy for a user of a package to use a new version where the
> personal information has been corrected. The thread in [1] questions
> our handling of potential cases where a transgender contributor of Guix
> or one of its packages requests to change their name. While it would be
> nothing but cruel to deny such a request

Please do not frame the question that way because it's very different:
the original request is _not_ to use the correct personal information in
a new package to be distributed (and potentially used), the request is
to modify the _correct_ personal information (self) published in the
past by rewriting the git history of the SHW archived copy of the
software.

Guix contributors or package authors can change their personal
information - usually their name and email in copyright attribution(s)
and documentation - at any moment and that will be _authomatically_
propagated in all new Guix built artifacts and/or in the Guix git
repositories.

Also, git can _display_ a different name in git logs if instructed to to
so via .mailmap

The problem, let me call it a "rights clash", arises when pretenting
that "rewriting the past" is a right people can exercise, protected by
the european GDPR also.

[...]

Loving, Gio'

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Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

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