On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 01:34:57PM +0300, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > It is true that GitHub is not Free Software, so IMO we should not be > depending on it. I see the ethical issues that arise from using a > non Free provider and it is not the only case in our ecosystem eg. > Transifex used to be Free Software and it is not anymore: > > https://github.com/transifex/transifex/issues/206 > https://github.com/tymofij/transifex/pull/1#issuecomment-14206884
Thanks for the pointers, Angelos. I think this shows pretty clearly what the risk is when relying on external services. Transifex was GPL at the time we decided to move the code there. I hoped OSGeo would setup a translation infrastructure back then too (~2012) but nothing came out of it: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2012-October/022234.html Now the cost of that choice would be that of asking all translators to create new accounts elsewhere, if we want to move away of transifex.com: https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/3339 --strk; _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss