Richard: > On Dec 12, 2015, at 13:00, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > >> As far as I can see, the existance of the Github JSON API [1] allows it >> to meet all of the criteria in section C of that document, and hence be >> an acceptable host. > > I think you've misunderstood the meaning of some conditionss. > > <li id="C0"><p>All important site functionality that’s enabled for use > with that package works correctly (though it need not look > as nice) in free browsers, including > <a href="/software/gnuzilla/">IceCat</a>, > without running any nonfree software sent by the > site. <strong>(C0)</strong></p> > > means that if you visit the site normally, with nonfree JS code blocked, > the site works normally. > > I think you are talking about something quite different, such as whether > you could write some other interface that would work. Maybe you could, > but that is not what C0 is about.
They exposed **every single** site functionality through the API (in fact, the Web interface itself uses the API to do its business, so it is safe to say that https://github.com/ is no more than one of the several available front-ends for https://api.github.com/) so https://api.github.com/ is satisfying this criteria. > <li id="C5"><p>Recommends and encourages GPL 3-or-later licensing at > least as much as any other kind of licensing. > <strong>(C5)</strong></p></li> > > Since you talk about offering a "choice", I think you may have > misinterpreted "Recommends and encourages" as "permits”. Their website and API are license-blind. Github have a “choose a license” website that put GPL at the same level of recommendation as Apache 2.0 and MIT/X11 license. Due to **practical reasons** people are **avoiding** GPLv3 (you may need to check the reason why folks are doing this, or GPLv3 will soon become the license of past,) so their recommendation is GPLv2+ for GPL. > I don't know if we could make our criteria bulletproof against > misunderstanding, but I will continue to clarify the meaning as needed. > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) > Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) > Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
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