On Monday 15 June 2015 13:54:10 Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > CopyRight 2015 GitHub, inc. > >> > >> Can you tell us how to reproduce this? > > > > Print the guthub web page for any project, its apparently in the > > page wrapper they are using. I have since read the T.O.S., which > > explicitely says thats not the case, however, it appears nervous > > folks wanting to move a project, cannot delete it from github and > > must fork it to move it. I am not at all comfy with that prospect, > > Chris. > > > > They also seem to have forked the gimp project and is trying to make > > it run on windows, and apparently charging a fee to download it > > although I have not personally seen that screen since windows isn't > > allowed on the premisis here, and which is blowing up the gimp-user > > list with support questions that they can only counter by telling > > folks where to get the real thing, for free. > > Are you sure you're not confusing GitHub with SourceForge? There was a > recent brouhaha with SF downloads of several projects.
Hummm... > > This is not a tasty turn of events since github changed hands a > > while back. > > Yup, that's probably Sourceforge---I don't think GitHub changed > corporate structure, and it's not that old anyway, unlike Sourceforge > which dates back a while. You could well be right. I had it in mind that github was another arm of sourceforge. That would be my (probably erronious) connection. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
