[copyleft-next] Use of Gitorious and GitHub

Stephen Michael Kellat skellat at fastmail.net
Sat Dec 1 00:11:42 UTC 2012


On 11/30/2012 06:34 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 04:02:52PM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote:
>> However, I do not want to associate copyleft-next in any way with
>> Fedora (or Red Hat). The problem with fedorahosted is that it creates
>> the sense that there is some connection with Fedora. (That is not why
>> fedorahosted was originally set up, as historical research makes
>> clear, but in practice it is now mostly used by projects either
>> closely tied to Fedora or closely tied to Red Hat.) Indeed, I see the
>> fedorahosted.org hosting of this mailing list as a temporary measure.
> If you want just a basic git tree and and mailing list infrastructure,
> there's always code.google.com.  Since it's not source code, and I'm
> not sure what copyright license the draft license text itself is
> under, there might need to be special dispensation from the Google
> Open Source Program Office.  
>
> I don't know if you or others on this list would have issues being
> associated with Google, or whether they would have issues with any
> kind of implied endorsement of copyleft, but perhaps that's an option
> to consider?
>
> 						- Ted
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I'll lay my marker down against having Google being involved in any
fashion.  I ditched all Google accounts at home and am glad for it. 
Besides, their wonderful identification algorithms go bonkers with my
web wanderings as they completely misidentify my demographics for
advertisements.

Stephen Michael Kellat



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