Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 2013-08-15 11:46, Christian Persch wrote:
> Hi;
>
> From the associated blog post:
> > As per people concerned about the fact that github is a closed source
> > service, I have a few things to highlight: this is just a mirror, we
> > won't rely on them for any of our activities. Also, GitHub has
> > contributed a great deal of their infrastructure code to the free
> > software commons and they offer a free and very valuable service to
> > anyone who has a free software project. I hope that this alleviates
> > any concerns with regards to this topic.
>
> It doesn't.
>
> By using gibhub for our 'official' git mirror, we're still
> promoting the use of a proprietary web service. I do see the advantage
> of having a web space that allows anyone to put up a clone/fork of one
> of our repos, but why was github chosen instead of a truly Free (AGPL'd)
> web service like gitorious?
>
> Also, I'd like to question when and how it was decided to give this
> github mirror 'official' status? I see from the board meeting minutes
> of 9.7.2013 that the foundation is sending a trademark complaint letter
> to an academic institution because they're (completely legitimately IMO)
> abbreviating "General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment" with
> "GNOME"; but OTOH we're allowing a proprietary web service to use the
> trademark as the "GNOME Official Github Mirror" ‽

Hi Christian, I think you have a valid concern here. I have added it to 
the agenda for the next board meeting, which is on the 20th of August 
and the minutes should be out by the 27th of August.

> Very concerned,
>         Christian
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