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task #14510: Mirroring to GitHub

Submitter:  Sergei <ihateinventnames>
Submitted:  Fri 12 May 2017 05:34:31 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Fri 12 May 2017 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Fri 12 May 2017 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Approved Projects to be Reviewed Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Mon 15 May 2017 04:34:00 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I received this in reply sent to myself and savannah-register-public:

> I propose to encourage people to host project on Savannah. This means project maintainers can freely move projects from GitHub to Savannah. All who depends on GitHub frontend may continue use it in this case. We need the mirroring for this.


You certainly are free to do this. The software license allows it.

Bob Proulx <rwp>
Site Administrator
Fri 12 May 2017 09:05:28 AM UTC, comment #1: 

All projects hosted on Savannah have a free license. Which means you always have the freedom to copy them off.

But note that GitHub is not itself free software. Worse it requires the user to run nonfree software in order to use it. It falls below the threshold for an ethical repository. I don't use it for official GNU software.

https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html

Since what you are asking is a philosophical discussion and not a bug or an action I am going to go ahead and close this ticket to keep the bookkeeping tidy since there is no action to be done in any case. But please feel free to make additional comments on this ticket.

Bob Proulx <rwp>
Site Administrator
Fri 12 May 2017 05:34:31 AM UTC, original submission:  

Can we make mirror to GitHub for people who feel more comfortable to work with GitHub?

Sergei <ihateinventnames>

 

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