Re:Changing the Ungit license from MIT to Faircode
by quotemstr on Sunday November 05, 2017 @04:36PM
(#15631763)
Why is GitHub happy to provide free hosting for proprietary software? Ungit is no longer free software in either the libre or gratis sense.
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Re:Changing the Ungit license from MIT to Faircode
by djur on Sunday November 05, 2017 @06:24PM
(#15632419)
I was curious about that myself for a similar situation a while back. Their terms of service do not require a free or open source license:
> If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking). You may grant further rights if you adopt a license. If you are uploading Content you did not create or own, you are responsible for ensuring that the Content you upload is licensed under terms that grant these permissions to other GitHub Users.