Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

On 02/15/15 10:05, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:50:27 +0100 Michał Górny wrote:
>> Dnia 2015-02-15, o godz. 15:39:58
>> Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:55:41 +0100 Alexey Lapitsky wrote:
> [...]
>>> Is Gentoo willing to say "no" to the software freedom and its own
>>> social obligations in order to make contributions easier in the
>>> simplest way possible?
>> Please explain me, how *exactly* does allowing contributions via
>> proprietary platform hurt free software?
> If this platform will become a de-facto common way to made
> contributions (and this may happen taking into account github's
> popularity), then platform unavailability or policy changes may
> hurt the whole development process.

Github can change its terms of service at any time [1].  They do have to 
notify us, but that's it.  Beyond that anything goes provided it is 
legal in US/California law.  It can in principle begin making copyright 
claims to new commits.

Ref.
[1] https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/



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