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>I wish GNU people could clean up Savannah and use it as their main distribution point. Why don't they use GitLab CE? It's under the GPL
by dispose13432 10y ago
>I wish GNU people could clean up Savannah and use it as their main distribution point.
Why don't they use GitLab CE? It's under the GPL
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- Someone 10y agohttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/: "GitLab Community Edition (CE) is available freely under the MIT Expat license." I don't see GPL mentioned there.
- rekado 10y agoYou are correct. To avoid a common misunderstanding I'd like to note that GNU people have no problem using software that has been released under the Expat license. It doesn't have to be copyleft software to be free/libre.
- dispose13432 10y agoOops, but it's free anyways.
- ramshorns 10y agoGNU grades hosting services based on different sets of criteria. GitLab gets a C, "acceptable hosting for a GNU package", but not "good enough to recommend" because the JavaScript on the website is free but doesn't work with analyzers like LibreJS, and because GitLab doesn't discourage bad licensing practices. GNU Savannah, of course, gets an A. https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.html https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.html https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
- dispose13432 10y ago> the JavaScript on the website is free but doesn't work with analyzers like LibreJS How hard would it be for GNU to maintain a fork of that instead of maintaining their own codebase? >GitLab doesn't discourage bad licensing practices If they host it, they can discourage whatever they want
- ramshorns 10y agoGood point. I was confusing GitLab.com the hosting service with GitLab CE the server software, which they could run an instance of.
- dispose13432 10y agoGitlab.com is gitlab EE or CE?
- jobvandervoort 10y agoGitLab.com runs GitLab EE
- pawadu 10y agoyeah, their complaints against gitlab seems like nitpicking. If the gitlab people could fix these minor issues and receive the blessing of RMS I think they could get some exposure outside their usual market. (whether that gets them more paying costumers is a whole different discussion)
- jobvandervoort 10y ago> If the gitlab people could fix these minor issues Sorry, dropping in here while working on our release of today. Could you clarify what issues? We're always excited to help projects move to GitLab.
- pawadu 10y agoFrom the GNU website: --- Things that prevent GitLab from moving up to the next grade, B: All JavaScript code served to the client is free, but does not work with LibreJS enabled. (B0) Encourages bad licensing practice, including no license; failure to state the license on each source file; and failure to say which GPL versions apply. (B2) --- I think at least B2 is a reasonable request, although this may have already been fixed (sorry, I use gitlab but barely visit the site itself).
- dispose13432 10y agoSlightly off topic, but I find it interesting that they find logging people more ethical than calling Linux the conventional way over Gnu/Linux.
- pawadu 10y agoYeah, thats RMS in a nutshell for you: Avoids saying “Linux” without “GNU” when referring to GNU/Linux. (A8) Specially now that GNU/Linux is in a minority (if you count installations and include Android and ChromeOS), I think they should drop the whole thing.