It's not actually necessary to use a Git hosting service.

Git itself works just fine without one.

There are many other project hosting alternatives as well. E.g. Canonical's Launchpad, GNU Savannah, etc.

It's not technically required with direct pulls, but practically there has to be some way of coordinating patch exchanges. Even when using mailing lists for sending patches, the list hosting provider is subject to disrupting development in the event of a takedown.

Also, aren't both Launchpad and Savannah both code hosting repositories too?

>Even when using mailing lists for sending patches, the list hosting provider is subject to disrupting development in the event of a takedown.

But my inbox, and everyone's inbox that participates in it, would have a copy.

I think mailing lists solve A LOT of problems that we are having now.

the dmca's were a result of 'intent' which the law is more than willing to enforce imaginary IP laws. this becomes an eternal cat and mouse game where the foss community will tend to lose against these leeches.

Or https://codeberg.org or https://sr.ht/ or just a bog-standard git repo served over HTTPS on https://youtube-dl.org/.

To use anything based in China will only cause more oppresion.

> To use anything based in China will only cause more oppresion.

How? It's not like China has the greatest respect for intellectual property.

That's not the point. It'd be a symbolic admission of defeat to anyone from the US or a Western country to have to move to Gitee.

> It'd be a symbolic admission of defeat to anyone from the US or a Western country to have to move to Gitee.

Maybe that's the point.

If all the valuable engineering projects leave the West because the West's laws are that dysfunctional, maybe the West will be forced to reevaluate them.

i don't understand? this is a pretty simple solution since these large megacorps are quick to enforce their own will on the FOSS community for bs IP reasons.