[GTALUG] Software Heritage - collecting source code

[David Collier-Brown]

On 2018-10-15 5:57 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> Interesting thing seen recently...
>
> "The long term goal of the Software Heritage initiative is to collect
> all publicly available software in source code form together with its
> development history, replicate it massively to ensure its
> preservation, and share it with everyone who needs it. The Software
> Heritage archive is growing over time as we crawl new source code from
> software projects and development forges. We will incrementally
> release archive search and browse functionalities — as of now you can
> check whether source code you care about is already present in the
> archive or not."
>
> A goodly set of "our stuff" is thereby archived...
>
> https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/search/?q=gtalug
>
> People have been worried about GitHub having been acquired by
> Microsoft; this sort of thing is part of what can be, to some extent,
> a protection against that.
>
> On the other hand, I'll bet this runs afoul of GRDP, and might run
> afoul of "right to be forgotten" laws that are starting to emerge.

I might want to petition the courts to take my name off my first few 
assembler programs .

I'm not sure they'd let me, though (;-))

--dave

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