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? 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" ‽ Very concerned, Christian _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list