On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 21:20 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider > [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, > [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. > > Is it advisable to use nonfree GitHub as a secondary mirror for GNOME's > free > software? > > When you say that GitHub is "nonfree", what do you mean by that? > We do not have any definition for calling a service free or nonfree. > > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html.
Hi Richard, GitHub provides a number of services around the Git repositories it provides. Git, of course, is free software, and you can interact with your repository as with any other Git repository. The extra services GitHub provides require quite a bit of server-side software, much of which is not released as free software. That, however, is a network service, not software running on your computer. The normal way of interacting with the extra services is using the web site, and the web site does require non-free JavaScript to work. But GitHub does provide an HTTP-based API that allows you to write entirely free software yourself to interact with these services. GitHub is clearly not as aligned with our mission as something like Gitorious, which uses 100% free software. But GitHub does not require you to run non-free software on your own computer for anything, as far as I can tell. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
