Post Ax62HnDAadjaxop9Xs by gsuberland@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #Ax5w5BL8yBEkJ99oJs by gsuberland@chaos.social
2025-08-12T13:18:35Z
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is one of the new git hosts non-opinionated about licensing (no "approved" list of licenses) and the types of projects that can be hosted there?I don't wanna move all my stuff off GitHub and then find that they shut my account down because I hosted Altium libraries, circuit designs, and other such not-purely-code not-purely-FOSS-tool stuff there, because ironically "software freedom" often gets interpreted as "we get to prescribe what tools you're allowed to use".do not tell me to self-host.
(DIR) Post #Ax5w5CUOhGEVs8UiNk by gsuberland@chaos.social
2025-08-12T13:19:57Z
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I'm asking because I remember someone pointing out that one or more of the popular new hosts had policies like "you can only host projects that use a license approved by the FSF", which is not compatible with my needs.
(DIR) Post #Ax5wXqShfm97xBMRJQ by gsuberland@chaos.social
2025-08-12T13:24:54Z
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@shironeko I tried looking into sourcehut and couldn't figure out what, if any, policies they have about what can be hosted there.(I don't really like their frontend either but that's not necessarily a blocker.)
(DIR) Post #Ax5wuKsnFXJ2fmHxVw by ignaloidas@not.acu.lt
2025-08-12T13:30:20.377Z
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@gsuberland@chaos.social I think sourcehut has zero qualms about what license you use or what software it's based on besides it not being related to crypto, ai or similar, and not having a whole bunch or binary files (no LFS support and it wrecks git's GC when it tries to diff them for compression).
(DIR) Post #Ax62Hm7od3rDavJMYq by nico@ublog.byme.at
2025-08-12T14:14:02.407287Z
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SourceForge still exists and have a git service
(DIR) Post #Ax62HnDAadjaxop9Xs by gsuberland@chaos.social
2025-08-12T14:15:41Z
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@nico and also hijacked user downloads to piggyback adware
(DIR) Post #Ax62HnuPzqKT7x3gxM by nico@ublog.byme.at
2025-08-12T14:21:12.715374Z
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It wasn't an hijack, DevShare was done *with* the agreement of the project owner. People always forget that.Anyway, that was 9 years ago and they changed ownership.https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-future-plans/
(DIR) Post #Ax62HoY7cE5X75dOqG by gsuberland@chaos.social
2025-08-12T14:28:40Z
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@nico that's not even true though. GNU Image Manipulation Program's downloads were hijacked without their consent. they made multiple statements about it. they also frequently included fake download button ads next to the real one.regardless, the entire concept is offensive and grubby from the outset. I don't want to be involved with any org that ever thought adware was ok.also their whole UI/UX sucks butt.