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Bradley M. Kuhn - 21 months ago 2022-06-30 21:27:09
bkuhn@sfconservancy.org

GiveUpGitHub: clarify this statement, it was confusingly worded.

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 <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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