them</a>), their entire hosting site is, itself, proprietary and/or

  trade-secret software.  We appreciate that GitHub allows some of its

  employees to sometimes contribute FOSS to upstream projects, but our

  community has been burned so many times before by companies that claim to

  support FOSS, while actively convincing the community to rely on their

    proprietary software.  We won't let GitHub burn us in this same way!</p></li>

<li><p>GitHub differs from most of its peers in the FOSS project hosting

industry, as GitHub does not even offer any self-hosting FOSS option.

Their <em>entire</em> codebase is secret.  For example, while we have our

complaints about GitLab's business model of parallel “Community”

and “Enterprise” editions, at least GitLab's Community Edition

    publicly as FOSS.</p></li>

<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>

    <li><p>GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.</p></li>

    </ul>

      of 道德经 (Tao Te Ching)</cite>

</p></div>

</p>

<h2>Resources to Give Up GitHub</h2>

<p>Here are some resources to help you quit GitHub.  We'll be expanding this

list regularly as we find more resources.  If you'd like to suggest a

resource not yet listed, you can discuss it on

the <a href="https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/give-up-github">Give-Up-GitHub

    mailing list</a>.</p>

<ul>

    <ul>

    <li><a href="https://codeberg.org">CodeBerg</a></li>

    <li><a href="https://sourcehut.org/">SourceHut</a></li>

        <ul><li><a href="https://gitea.io">Gitea</a></li>

        <li> <a href="https://gitlab.com/rluna-gitlab/gitlab-ce">GitLab

        Community Edition</a> (note, the GitLab Enterprise Edition, which is

        provided to the public on gitlab.com,  is (like GitHub) trade-secret,

          proprietary, vendor-lock-in software)</li>

    (We'll be adding tutorials soon on how to self-host!)

    </ul></p>

<h2>Ways To Help Even <em>Before</em> You Give Up GitHub</h2>

<p>Here are some ideas of how you can help raise the importance of this issue

even while you're still a GitHub user.  (We'll publish longer tutorials in

future about these and other ways to help.)

<ul>

<li><p><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/docs/SupportGiveUpGitHub-README-snippet.md">Add

    this section to your README.md</a> to share your concerns about GitHub

  with your users.</p></li>