[Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Devin Ulibarri <devin at ulibarri.website>
wrote:

> On 05/27/2016 08:55 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> > I think its pretty clear that Github's business model _depends_ on it
> > hosting the world's libre licensed code: That's how they get developers
> > into their conversion funnel.
>
> Notice from the ethics article that one big deal with GitHub is it
> allows developers to upload code without a license (thus being
> proprietary by default, even though we can all see the code).
>
> As a start, I think we should push on GitHub to discourage this practice.
>

This has been the topic of a lot of discussion on the FOSS foundation list
of late. I think there is a movement afoot to push them towards a default
FOSS license.

-walter

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