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On 02/15/15 10:05, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:50:27 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> Dnia 2015-02-15, o godz. 15:39:58 |
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>> Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> napisał(a): |
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>>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:55:41 +0100 Alexey Lapitsky wrote: |
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> [...] |
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>>> Is Gentoo willing to say "no" to the software freedom and its own |
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>>> social obligations in order to make contributions easier in the |
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>>> simplest way possible? |
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>> Please explain me, how *exactly* does allowing contributions via |
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>> proprietary platform hurt free software? |
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> If this platform will become a de-facto common way to made |
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> contributions (and this may happen taking into account github's |
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> popularity), then platform unavailability or policy changes may |
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> hurt the whole development process. |
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Github can change its terms of service at any time [1]. They do have to |
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notify us, but that's it. Beyond that anything goes provided it is |
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legal in US/California law. It can in principle begin making copyright |
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claims to new commits. |
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Ref. |
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[1] https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/ |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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