GiveUpGitHub: clarify this statement, it was confusingly worded.

This commit is contained in:
Bradley M. Kuhn 2022-06-30 14:27:09 -07:00
parent b265655ba4
commit ee57c97527

View file

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