> Software Heritage is a non-profit organization which provides a service for archiving and referencing historical and contemporary software — with a focus on human readable source code. The site was unveiled in 2016 by Inria [1] and is supported by UNESCO. The project itself is structured as a non‑profit multi‑stakeholder initiative.
> Development of Software Heritage began at Inria under the direction of computer scientists Roberto Di Cosmo and Stefano Zacchiroli in early 2015, and the project was officially announced to the public on June 30, 2016.
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I am not sure that GitHub has the authority to do a take down of a repository on a different server (and jurisdiction - it's based out of France) on behalf of a user.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Heritage
> Software Heritage is a non-profit organization which provides a service for archiving and referencing historical and contemporary software — with a focus on human readable source code. The site was unveiled in 2016 by Inria [1] and is supported by UNESCO. The project itself is structured as a non‑profit multi‑stakeholder initiative.
> Development of Software Heritage began at Inria under the direction of computer scientists Roberto Di Cosmo and Stefano Zacchiroli in early 2015, and the project was officially announced to the public on June 30, 2016.
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I am not sure that GitHub has the authority to do a take down of a repository on a different server (and jurisdiction - it's based out of France) on behalf of a user.