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Reminds me of something Jim Weirich (author of Ruby's `rake`) used to say:

> Fun game at apple store: on any mac, in terminal type: "grep Copyright `gem which rake`"

... which would print his name, because Ruby and rake are bundled with macOS. :)

Complete with his email address. Would be fun to do a GDPR removal request on that piece of personal info.

Even if this counted as processing of personal data (questionable), it would almost certainly be lawful under the "processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject" criterion.

Not sure you can request already publicly available information (https://github.com/ruby/rake/blob/master/rake.gemspec + everywhere where rubygems are replicated) to be deleted. Even less so when you as the author made it public themselves.

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