What does it mean "to remove"?
What does it mean "to remove"?
Posted Apr 3, 2014 13:34 UTC (Thu) by gioele (subscriber, #61675)In reply to: wrong question (maybe?) by louie
Parent article: The most powerful contributor agreement
> "the CLA helps you figure out whose code to remove to clean up the mess afterwards".
Tangentially related, I always wondered how many things must be "removed" in those "messy" cases.
If some "unlawful" code is found in a git(hub)-hosted repository, is it enough to just remove the code from the master branch?
Should also the git history be rewritten to contain no traces of that code? That can be quite hard.
And what if your code ended up duplicated in source packages in Debian or Fedora repositories? And if it has also been included in some ISO files then printed on CDs? Should those CDs be destroyed?