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