It's too bad the 'open source' in the title triggered a wave a resentment in the discussion. I agree it sounds argumentative, considering the licensing of Git

It's too bad the 'open source' in the title triggered a wave a resentment in the discussion. I agree it sounds argumentative, considering the licensing of Git itself is more 'Free' than that of Fossil. But the underlying point here is an interesting one: if I'm a GitHub user and I'm not happy with the idea of Microsoft acquiring the company, what alternatives exist if I want to move away from GitHub? There are tons of them, but it the realm of simple, self-hosted solutions that offer code hosting, issue tracking, and a wiki, Fossil stacks up quite well. It's a single executable that's lightweight enough that it can be called via CGI in shared hosting environment to replicate much of what GitHub offers. In that context, I think Fossil is worth looking at. If moving away from Git isn't an option, I'm a big fan of Gitea[0], though I haven't hosted it on the internet before (unlike Fossil, which I do use to host my side-projects). Gitea is a community-driven fork of Gogs. Both are single-executable Go applications that offer much of the same functionality GitHub offers. [0]: https://gitea.io/en-US/ https://gitea.io/en-US/