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Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany (www.openpetition.de)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

While true, a git history is also easily protected against fabrication. Require cryptographically signed commits and prevent contributors from force-pushing to the public repo and you should be good.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    I mean, if you try to "scam" the gov, you can clone some codeberg repo to github, rename it, rewrite history to make the commits look like you did everything and then tell the gov "look at how much work I volunteered". At least in germany, there are currently not enough public workers so many little things go unchecked.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Ah I see, yeah I guess something like that would be possible. On the other hand it would be trivial to prove this happened even in the future as long as the government keeps a unedited copy of this repo.

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