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Those are certainly issues, but note that they have nothing to do with the alleged main point of the article, in that they make it unusable for open source proj
by joosters 5y ago
Those are certainly issues, but note that they have nothing to do with the alleged main point of the article, in that they make it unusable for open source projects. Quite the opposite, they are unrelated to the licensing at all.
I think it is a fair criticism to point out that the author seems unhappy about a non-OS website yet they somehow think this is an OS issue.
- yarcob 5y agoThis is not about licensing. The problem is that DocC is incompatible with the current tools that many Open Source projects use. Sure, you could use DocC for an OS project and set up your own server to host it. It's probably pretty cheap to do that on a VM. It would require just a little bit of learning about web hosting and would require minimal maintenance. But why would anyone do that when Github pages is completely free, requires zero maintenance, and everyone knows how to use it already? A lot of small Open Source projects currently use Github + Github pages for hosting docs because it is such a convenient offering. If you want to use DocC, you have to look for something else.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoThere are many different reasons a thing can be considered unusable. This certainly qualifies. The problem isn't specific to github.