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Re: Please, no GitHub
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Please, no GitHub |
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Mon, 14 Dec 2015 01:40:47 -0500 |
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> > stating the license on the source files themselves), and don't mention
> > the difference between GPL 3-or-later and GPL 3-only, this leading
> > people to choose the latter without realizing they made a choice.
> > This fails C5.
> Nobody is as experienced as you are in such subtle differences.
We are trying to educate other people about this
through methods such as our repository criteria.
> 99% of the GitHub contributors are developers and programming
> specialist. And not legal/license specialists.
That's why it is important for the site to lead them in the right
direction.
> And to be honest, instead of recommending not to use GitHub
> at all because of IMHO subtle flaws, FSF should offer something
> better.
We already do: savannah.gnu.org. We don't have the staff to provide
fast service, but on the most important dimension -- the ethical one
-- it is far superior to GitHub.
Would you like to volunteer to help take care of Savannah?
That could make a practical improvement.
> And if there are not enough contributors to improve Savannah,
> FSF should look to make contributions to it more attractive.
I don't see a way to do that. Do you have any suggestions?
Or
> talk directly to GitHub people.
I already did, starting about a year ago. I even had dinner with one
of their executives. It seems to be a promising conversation, but
they dropped it inexplicably. So we developed our repo criteria
instead.
If they want to resume the conversation, I won't refuse.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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