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GitHub is one of the worst sites that you could possibly use.
Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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<h1>Please do not use GitHub!</h1>
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Please do not use GitHub to host <?php echo $lbProjectName; ?>.
<?php echo $lbProjectNameCapitalized; ?> is a free software project, so this is only a request, and not a restriction on the software.
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<a href="../gitorious/">Don't use gitorious, either.</a>
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<h2>What's wrong with GitHub?</h2>
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GitHub itself is proprietary software (Tim reasons it's for business
[<a href="http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html">1</a>])
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A patch[<a href="https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/pull/177">2</a>] to
<a href="http://choosealicense.com">choose a license</a> was received with some hostility.
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<li>Tim really likes to talk about freedom, but makes the following claims about the GPLv2/3:</li>
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...The GPL is not focused on freedom. It's too long.
Too many restrictions. -- Tom Preston-Werner OSCON2013
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<p>or how about:</p>
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Notice that everything we keep closed has specific business value
that could be compromised by giving it away to our competitors.
-- Tom Preston-Werner's
<a href="http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html">blog</a>
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GitHub simply uses Free Software for its own benefit, releasing source code under a free license
only when suited to it's business goals; they are quite happy to violate the rights of their users, for profit.
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By contrast, the <?php echo $lbProjectName; ?> project adheres strictly to the goals of the Free Software movement, which
seeks to eliminate proprietary software to the point where all software is free.
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The opinions expressed by Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub are incompatible with those of
the <?php echo $lbProjectName; ?> project. Users and developers of
<em><a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a></em>
are strongly advised not to use GitHub, for any of their projects.
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<a href="http://git-scm.com/doc">Host your own repositories</a>. This is exactly what libreboot does,
hosted on a machine that is <i>running</i> libreboot! You can use a frontend like
<a href="http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb">gitweb</a>
for easy viewing by others. For code review, you can use an IRC channel, mailing lists and other
methods that allow mass collaboration.
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<li>
Jason Self lists a few replacements on this page:
<a href="http://jxself.org/goodbye-gitorious.shtml">http://jxself.org/goodbye-gitorious.shtml</a>
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[<a href="http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html">1</a>]
<em>Open Source (Almost)</em> - http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html
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[<a href="https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/pull/177">2</a>] <em>Choose A License GPL patch</em> -
https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/pull/177
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[<a href="http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2014-08/msg00013.html">3</a>]
<em>linux-libre choosealicense issue</em> - http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2014-08/msg00013.html
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This text on this page was adapted from
<a href="http://librecmc.org/librecmc/wiki?name=github">http://librecmc.org/librecmc/wiki?name=github</a>,
licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> like the original.
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