From ee57c9752774d0cf7dea4b5abc1ea0f1174597a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:27:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] GiveUpGitHub: clarify this statement, it was confusingly worded. --- www/conservancy/static/GiveUpGitHub/index.html | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/www/conservancy/static/GiveUpGitHub/index.html b/www/conservancy/static/GiveUpGitHub/index.html index d5e40827..78b6ded0 100644 --- a/www/conservancy/static/GiveUpGitHub/index.html +++ b/www/conservancy/static/GiveUpGitHub/index.html @@ -101,11 +101,13 @@ as CodeBerg, who develop their platform

  • 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 his entire -OSCON keynote on attacking copyleft and the GPL. There are also examples -of GitHub -employees filing bug tickets in copylefted projects to cajole them to - change to non-copyleft licenses.

    • +devoting his OSCON +keynote on attacking copyleft and the GPL. 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 even +seen a GitHub employee do this in a GitHub bug ticket directly.

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  • GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.