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Do GitHub, GitLab, Gitea and other "gits" have an agreement with "the" Git?
by 1f60c 6y ago
Do GitHub, GitLab, Gitea and other "gits" have an agreement with "the" Git?
- athorax 6y agoIt explains that in the link they posted... So GitHub is essentially outside the scope of the trademark policy, due to the history. We also decided to explicitly grandfather some major projects that were using similar portmanteaus, but which had generally been good citizens of the Git ecosystem (building on Git in a useful way, not breaking compatibility). Those include GitLab, JGit, libgit2, and some others. The reasoning was generally that it would be a big pain for those projects, which have established their own brands, to have to switch names. It's hard to hold them responsible for picking a name that violated a policy that didn't yet exist.
- rzzzt 6y agoThere were two related issues on the Gitea project page about this: - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4175 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4175 - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1516 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1516 In the latter, someone mentioned that a few of these projects were grandfathered in/have written permission from the Software Freedom Conservancy and so may use a portmanteau as the name.
- young_unixer 6y agoGitHub and Gitlab: yes. Gitea: I don't know.