Hello Christian,
2013/8/15 Christian Persch <c...@gnome.org>: > Hi; > > From the associated blog post: >> As per people concerned about the fact that github is a closed source >> service, I have a few things to highlight: this is just a mirror, we >> won't rely on them for any of our activities. Also, GitHub has >> contributed a great deal of their infrastructure code to the free >> software commons and they offer a free and very valuable service to >> anyone who has a free software project. I hope that this alleviates >> any concerns with regards to this topic. > > It doesn't. > > By using gibhub for our 'official' git mirror, we're still > promoting the use of a proprietary web service. I do see the advantage > of having a web space that allows anyone to put up a clone/fork of one > of our repos, but why was github chosen instead of a truly Free (AGPL'd) > web service like gitorious? > > Also, I'd like to question when and how it was decided to give this > github mirror 'official' status? The fact that the hook is installed in the repos makes it official. It was my call, not GitHub's. So blame me. > I see from the board meeting minutes > of 9.7.2013 that the foundation is sending a trademark complaint letter > to an academic institution because they're (completely legitimately IMO) > abbreviating "General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment" with > "GNOME"; but OTOH we're allowing a proprietary web service to use the > trademark as the "GNOME Official Github Mirror" ‽ Github is not using the trademark, I am. > Very concerned, > Christian > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
