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On 02/15/15 01:04, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Dnia 2015-02-14, o godz. 21:48:22 |
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> "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> napisał(a): |
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>> whenever the suggestion comes up to enable contributions to Gentoo via Github |
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>> pull requests, we also encounter discussion of the Gentoo Social Contract. |
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>> The two points that are seen as conflicting are |
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>> * The software running Github is closed source, proprietary. |
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>> * The Gentoo Social Contract states [1]: |
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>> "Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or metadata unless it |
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>> conforms to the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public |
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>> License, the Creative Commons - Attribution/Share Alike or some other license |
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>> approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)." |
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> Maybe you should start by providing an alternative conforming to this. |
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> For a start, Infra should stop running proprietary software. However, |
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> so far they have been openly refusing to publish their scripts. |
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> In fact, I've been recently asked to put my open source overlay QA |
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> scripts [1] in a restricted-access repository. |
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> [1]:https://bitbucket.org/mgorny/overlay-qa-tools |
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I don't know why infra doesn't open their scripts. It may lead to |
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security issues, I don't know. They probably should, and I do |
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appreciate you're pointing out to your git hooks way back when I asked. |
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So kudos. |
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But the big difference here is that github is a company while infra is |
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volunteer work. While I don't mind people making money off our work, as |
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google does with chromeos, I do want to remain free of them. I had a |
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friend at cornell. We did our ph.d. together. He wrote some code that |
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did band structure calculations. Because he wrote it at cornell, it |
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belonged to cornell who sold the rights to one company. That company |
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then sold the rights to another and my friend followed the code. The |
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last company finally said, sorry you can't develop this code anymore and |
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you can't tell people how it works. My friend was devastated as his |
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life work was taken from him. Obviously the situation is different |
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here, but this should be a lesson. |
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The other reason I don't like github is because it decentralizes the |
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community as we adopt our workflow around github rather than our own infra. |
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BTW, at D'Youville College our union contract says, our intellectual |
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property belongs to us and the college can't take that from us. 100% |
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ours. If you see me going around aggressively slapping glp on anything |
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I write it so as to assert that claim vigorously. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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