GiveUpGitHub: clarify this statement, it was confusingly worded.

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Bradley M. Kuhn 2022-06-30 14:27:09 -07:00
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@ -101,11 +101,13 @@ as <a href="https://codeberg.org">CodeBerg</a>, who develop their platform
<li><p>GitHub has long sought to discredit copyleft generally. Their various
CEOs have often spoken loudly and negatively about copyleft, including their
founder (and former CEO)
devoting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAAlPXB2-c">his entire
OSCON keynote on attacking copyleft and the GPL</a>. There are also examples
of <a href="https://github.com/BenKallos/legislation/issues/2#issue-46911010">GitHub
employees filing bug tickets</a> in copylefted projects to cajole them to
change to non-copyleft licenses.</p></li>
devoting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAAlPXB2-c">his OSCON
keynote on attacking copyleft and the GPL</a>. This trickled down from the
top. We've personally observed various GitHub employees over the years
arguing in many venues to convince projects to avoid copyleft;
we've <a href="https://github.com/BenKallos/legislation/issues/2#issue-46911010">even
seen a GitHub employee do this in a GitHub bug ticket directly</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.</p></li>
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