Moving to GitHub

Posted Feb 13, 2017 6:44 UTC (Mon) by liw (subscriber, #6379)
In reply to: Moving to GitHub by mathstuf
Parent article: The trouble with FreeBSD

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CONTR...

"By submitting code as an individual you agree to the
individual contributor license agreement.
By submitting code as an entity you agree to the
corporate contributor license agreement."

Moving to GitHub

Posted Feb 24, 2017 15:38 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (4 responses)

That's not much different than one would expect. It's not assignment (so I can redistribute just fine), and it is MIT licensed anyways, so inclusion in EE is allowed without that grant anyways (by my understanding; corrections welcome).

Moving to GitHub

Posted Feb 26, 2017 16:53 UTC (Sun) by catalinuxboie (guest, #112452) [Link] (3 responses)

I think the question is: why one should contribute to a project with a license which will allow integration of you hard work patches into a non free software project (GitLab EE)?
Why not contributing to a real free software project, which will not allow stealing and extending your work?

Moving to GitHub

Posted Feb 26, 2017 17:24 UTC (Sun) by zdzichu (guest, #17118) [Link]

You are aware that the article is about FreeBSD?

Moving to GitHub

Posted Feb 26, 2017 19:57 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

I contribute to tmux because screen does not fit my needs. I do not have time to make screen fit those needs. Therefore I improve a free software project that, though it can be used to improve a proprietary product, benefits me as well for a reasonable amount of invested time. And before anyone says "why bother with FOSS at all?", the ability to improve a project is worth a decent loss of functionality (to me). It seems that you have drawn your line further down the spectrum, which I do respect, but I cannot commit to it myself due to a different balance of interests I value and allocate time to. Others can't draw the line as far as I have.

I also reject your No True Scotsman statement about "real free software". Gitlab is licensed under an acceptable license that meets the definition. It is not stealing my work; I accept the license terms and their consequences because Gitlab has yet to show that they are acting in bad faith with their CE/EE split (e.g., taking a feature I contribute and adding it to EE, but not to CE). If such things do happen, I'd like to know about it because it is not a good sign for the project and I'd like to start looking at ways to help remedy the problem and/or look for alternative solutions.

Moving to GitHub

Posted Feb 27, 2017 1:27 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

I also reject your No True Scotsman statement about "real free software". Gitlab is licensed under an acceptable license that meets the definition.

Note that catalinuxboie has his own project that competes with GitHub and Gitlab and is supposed to be “real free software” (according to him). He'd probably prefer it if you contributed to his project rather than Gitlab.