> 10 mars 2017 kl. 01:17 skrev <andr...@itship.ch> <andr...@itship.ch>: > > Thanks for your comments and insights, Jakob. > I just want to shortly assure you that I really liked your emails and your > participation.
Thanks. > Sidenote: > Before GitHub, sourceforge.net was the singular main hoster for FOSS > sourcecode. > They lost their status when they bundled the downloads with adware (and > malware). Something like that can happen. But I stand by my point - github and it's social network is unique. > > BitKeeper vs. Linux (the reason we have git now). So thanks to Bitkeeper we could push the state of the art away from CVS. Great. > > GitHub: > On 2017-03-01 GitHub introduced ... > Basically, when uploading FOSS-licensed content to GitHub, the uploader > automatically grants GitHub a special license, so actually a case of > dual-licensing. > The problem now is, that when the content is copyrighted by other authors > beside the uploader, > then the uploader cannot (in usual cases) actually grant this license legally > to GitHub, as most FOSS-licenses forbid sublicensing and/or removal of the > original attributions. > Just ... not accurate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13767975 > I don't believe GitHub will take big damage because of this, especially as > there is no serious contender on the rise. Exactly there's none. > But it's surely a sign that GitHub is not a singularity from the usual > development of such things. > It's not an idealistic group of nerds anymore, but a big company (e.g. lookup > the "github meritocracy" drama). I never said nor implied such a thing. I just observe that github is the largest community of software developers in the history of the Universe. > For the other points mentioned by you and others about picolisp: > Just do it. PicoLisp is MIT-licensed. Action speaks louder than words. Put up or shut up? Of course you are right. About me. Because I know where to find everything picolisp related. But I argue (maybe incorrectly) that there can be other people in a kind of Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy situation - Picolisp is behind the leopard etc... But all this is beside the point for PicoLisp, we know now that it won't come to github. I just wanted to defend my own viewpoint, I didn't like how I was understood. > This! > I'm on it. Speaking of, anybody tried to compile emu pico in emscripten? -- Jakob
