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What's a good alternative? Preferably not in the US, preferably not biased towards (or against) any political agenda.
Simply 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 produc…
What's a good alternative? Preferably not in the US, preferably not biased towards (or against) any political agenda.
You don't need hosting to use git.
This, 100%.
Git is useful for all your textual versioning needs - but your friends don't really need access to all your git repos.
The whole idea of putting your whole life on GitHub is a dev's equivalent of putting all your life on Facebook - an excellent idea, as far as Microsoft and Facebook are concerned. If you can't sell ads to coders, then perhaps you can sell them recycled code.
But yeah perhaps I'm hatin' :)
Speaking of GH alternatives, though, the Tildeverse has https://tildegit.org/ https://tildegit.org/.
The only one that learned very quickly to take advantage of this was Microsoft that is buying the open-source ecosystem and offering the best tools for free. It's not only a clever pricing scam, but a form of EEE; that suffocates the likes of JetBrains which they have to increase prices themselves.
It is not early days anymore and this time GitHub is part of Microsoft and it tells us that it will be around for a long time. The tech bros cheering on GitHub and Microsoft will soon realise that neither of them are their friends and Microsoft is still at its Embrace, Extend and Extinguish ways.
What's a good alternative? Preferably not in the US, preferably not biased towards (or against) any political agenda.
As someone else has said, the alternative isn't to move away from GH (at least not for this specific issue). The alternative is to change your license to not allow for this.
If you change your license to forbid removing the license, then there's a good chance that it doesn't hold any legal power. Reason being that machine processing is allowed by copyright laws.
What's a good alternative? Preferably not in the US, preferably not biased towards (or against) any political agenda.
What's a good alternative? Preferably not in the US, preferably not biased towards (or against) any political agenda.
Moving repos between hosts is trivial; e.g. I keep bare clones on my laptop, on an AWS server, and GitHub; with post-receive hooks that keep them all in sync. GitHub's appeal is all the add-on functionality that's not actually stored in the git repo itself; e.g. Issues, Pull Requests, etc. That can't be migrated away easily. Anyone who (a) has concerns about GitHub (monoculture, Microsoft, Copilot, whatever), and (b)…