Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
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Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
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Re: Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
#2What's a good alternative? Preferably not in the US, preferably not biased towards (or against) any political agenda.
Re: Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
#3Blog post the article is about:
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-la...
Re: Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
#4Classic Microsoft Move, Bravo.
Re: Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
#5What's a good alternative? Preferably not in the US, preferably not biased towards (or against) any political agenda.
Radicle? https://radicle.xyz/
Re: Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
#6What's a good alternative? Preferably not in the US, preferably not biased towards (or against) any political agenda.
Re: Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
#7Perhaps one should create an open-source alternative to GitHub copilot also trained on proprietary source code, such as some leaked Windows source-code, and everyone will be happy and appreciate that we can use fair-use to train such AIs.
Re: Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
#8Re: Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
#9Simply moving away from Github is not enough to protect your code if you see this as a problem. Moving your code away from Github to some open alternative doesn't stop Github consuming it to use in Copilot unless you specifically forbid that in your license. If you code is freely available to use for any purpose, as many open source licenses permit, then that includes using it as training data for a for-profit product.
You need to use a license that restricts its use, and restricts the use of derivatives otherwise someone uploading a fork to Github will just put you back where you started. I think GPL3 would give you such protections, but you should check with a lawyer if this is particularly important to you.
Re: Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
#10What's a good alternative? Preferably not in the US, preferably not biased towards (or against) any political agenda.
Self-hosted gitea[1], or find a friend (or friend group?) who already has one, and ask for an account.