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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: buytenh@wantstofly.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove non-MAINTAINERS email address references for Lennert Buytenhek.
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:24:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110410222406.49bd78f8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110410.132817.226768042.davem@davemloft.net>

> For example, whether someone does or does not use their employer's
> email address in the copyright can have an impact on whether their
> employer can make a claim on copyright of the work.  There
> are therefore real implications for what email address is there.

The invalid ones still want removing, because they may end up pointing to
someone else which is worse still and could cause all kinds of problems.

Also if you want to go all legal, the email address is personal data and
there is a statuatory duty within the EU for data holders to keep personal
data to date 8)

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-10 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-10 13:45 [PATCH] Remove non-MAINTAINERS email address references for Lennert Buytenhek Lennert Buytenhek
2011-04-10 20:20 ` David Miller
2011-04-10 20:27   ` Lennert Buytenhek
2011-04-10 20:28     ` David Miller
2011-04-10 21:24       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-04-11 17:47     ` Florian Mickler

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