[copyleft-next] Use of Gitorious and GitHub

Joshua Gay jgay at fsf.org
Fri Nov 30 16:50:40 UTC 2012


Supporting github is a ruinous compromise because their policies work
against our aims in the free software movement in the long term.

On 11/30/2012 11:35 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> Would anyone besides Bradley object (weakly or strongly) to my using
> GitHub as the apparent one true public source code repository for
> copyleft-next? (I have been mirroring [that's probably not even the
> correct concept here] commits to the Gitorious repository in my GitHub
> copyleft-next repository ever since using Gitorious for
> copyleft-next.) Having used Gitorious for several months now, I have
> to say that I don't like it.
> 
> I note that Bradley has already proposed some changes to copyleft-next
> by attaching patches to mailing list posts in addition to Gitorious
> merge requests. This seems to prove that someone who strongly objects
> to GitHub can still actively participate in this project, at least if
> I reverse my current practice and consistently mirror the GitHub
> repository in the existing Gitorious repository (or some other public
> git repository location that Bradley would not object to).
> 
> - RF
> 
> 
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Joshua Gay
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