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I assume the author of this tool could have no reasonable objection to being contacted this way. They created it, so they should expect people are going to use
by pmiller2 6y ago
I assume the author of this tool could have no reasonable objection to being contacted this way. They created it, so they should expect people are going to use it, and, if someone contacts them this way, I don't see where they have any standing to complain.
The other question is tougher, because I don't think people put their email addresses in their git identities for this purpose. Yet, it's still technically public information. I am not sure what the right answer is here.
- Symbiote 6y agoThe purpose of email addresses in Git commits is certainly to allow contact from others looking at the code — but that is more relevant for a distributed project like the Linux kernel (coordinated with mailing lists) than a single-committer project on Github. Occasionally, those email addresses are used to try and contact contributers to an open source project to check copyright, licenses etc. Sometimes many years later.