Comments on: Details about the move to Github http://gentoohaskell.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/details-about-the-move-to-github/ Gentoo and Haskell in symbiosis Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:37:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Craig http://gentoohaskell.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/details-about-the-move-to-github/#comment-51 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:57:24 +0000 http://gentoohaskell.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-51 I know AGPLv3 doesn’t say anything about hosting services, my comment is more along the lines of consistency and support the Free Software world. Gentoo is all about Free Software, Haskell is Free Software, and the Gentoo packaging of Haskell is Free as well. Therefore, wouldn’t it make sense for this group of Free Software to be hosted on a Free Software system? It certainly doesn’t *have* to be, but wouldn’t it be cool if it was? I love it when Free Software supports Free Software (like Gentoo supporting Haskell by packaging it), and always find it a bit weird when Free Software supports proprietary software (like Gentoo’s Haskell project supporting GitHub), especially when a similarly-capable Free Software option is available (like Gitorious versus GitHub).
Thanks for your awesome work, btw. I don’t mean to be annoying, just hoping to point something out that may not have been considered, and hopefully help out one of my favorite (and IMHO most important) Free Software projects.

]]> By: Sergei Trofimovich http://gentoohaskell.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/details-about-the-move-to-github/#comment-49 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:30:06 +0000 http://gentoohaskell.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-49 Our decision was to pick some service friendly to occasional contributor. Github is just good enough for that: a lot of people know about it and it provides everything we need.

I don’t think service’s source code license is relevant here. AFAIU AGPLv3 does not say anything about terms of service for content stored there.

I never used gitorius, but looking at home page they seem to provide similar service. Anyway, in case something will go wrong with github we’ll consider gitorious as well.

]]> By: Craig http://gentoohaskell.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/details-about-the-move-to-github/#comment-41 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:13:44 +0000 http://gentoohaskell.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-41 Seeing as Gentoo is a Free Software project, and you guys clearly value software freedom… wouldn’t a move to gitorious (which is entirely Free Software, and available under AGPLv3) be more appropriate than github (which is proprietary)?

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