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Its no longer relevant to me nor him, but I can't help but think the attitude of this article kind of violates the DFSG. If the stance is to insist that free so
by mlang23 6y ago
Its no longer relevant to me nor him, but I can't help but think the attitude of this article kind of violates the DFSG.
If the stance is to insist that free software should be allowed to be redistributed by anyone, flaming those which have in the past wanted to mirror your code on github by indicating you could get them banned by fiddling with the hashes in your repo is pretty aggressive. I totally get the frustration, but when I learnt the DFSG, this was the biggest lesson for me. Freedom means freedom to anyone. Restricting your code to, say, non-military use, isn't compliant with the DFSG.
So, now that we have perceived hostile code hosters, do we really want to go there? "You're not going to push my stuff to x.y.z, or I will make you feel the pain."
- lolc 6y agoWhat do you make of an author who only provides tarballs?