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Give Up GitHub! On Wednesday 29 June 2022, we began calling on all FOSS developers to give up on GitHub. We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development. However, as a proprietary, trade-secret tool, GitHub itself

Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! by Denver Gingerich and Bradley M. Kuhn on June 30, 2022 Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since

Regarding Git and Branch Naming June 23, 2020 Both Conservancy and the Git project are aware that the initial branch name, ‘master’, is offensive to some people and we empathize with those hurt by the use of that term. Existing versions of Git are capable of working with any branch name; there's nothing special about ‘master’ except that it has historically been the name used for the first branch

GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux by Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen M. Sandler on February 25, 2016 This post discusses an atypical GPL violation. Unlike most GPL violations Conservancy faces, in this case, a third-party entity holds a magic wand that can instantly resolve the situation. Oracle is the primary copyright holder of ZFS, and, despite nearly eight years (going back to the da

Frequently Asked Questions about Christoph Hellwig's VMware Lawsuit Update 2019-04-02: Please see this announcement regarding conclusion of the VMware suit in Germany. Since the suit has concluded, any funds you donate here will support our ongoing compliance efforts. The remaining material below is left as it was before that announcement: Conservancy maintains this FAQ list regarding Christoph He

Conservancy Announces Funding for GPL Compliance Lawsuit VMware sued in Hamburg, Germany court for failure to comply with the GPL on Linux March 5, 2015 Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy's ongoing effort to convinc