GiveUpGitHub: clarify this statement, it was confusingly worded.
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<li><p>GitHub has long sought to discredit copyleft generally. Their various
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CEOs have often spoken loudly and negatively about copyleft, including their
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founder (and former CEO)
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devoting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAAlPXB2-c">his entire
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OSCON keynote on attacking copyleft and the GPL</a>. There are also examples
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of <a href="https://github.com/BenKallos/legislation/issues/2#issue-46911010">GitHub
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employees filing bug tickets</a> in copylefted projects to cajole them to
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change to non-copyleft licenses.</p></li>
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devoting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAAlPXB2-c">his OSCON
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keynote on attacking copyleft and the GPL</a>. This trickled down from the
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top. We've personally observed various GitHub employees over the years
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arguing in many venues to convince projects to avoid copyleft;
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we've <a href="https://github.com/BenKallos/legislation/issues/2#issue-46911010">even
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seen a GitHub employee do this in a GitHub bug ticket directly</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p>GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.</p></li>
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