Hi all, I'm working on a project hosting site for the autonomo.us project [1].
Briefly, the autonomo.us project is trying to figure out and implement what user freedom, in the Free Software Foundation / GNU Project / Libre sense [2], means in the context of network services. I recently researched a bunch of software to implement a project hosting site (think sourceforge) in the most free network service-y way possible [3], and so far Fossil SCM looks like the clear winner. Currently I'm looking for feedback on a proposal for the next generation of the service [4] and would be interested in any insights from / comments on that document the Fossil SCM community. I also have a few questions: (a) Has the addition of a search function been considered in any greater depth than the listing on the todo list [5]? If we could get someone to hack on that, are there any design and implementation guidelines, existing projects that could be integrated to add this function, or anything else people would suggest? (b) Have you guys considered moving to the AGPLv3 license [6]? The project already uses GPL, which I'm hoping means the copyright holders care about freedom issues (yay!). Moving to AGPLv3 would stop someone from taking the code, embracing and extending it, and then offering it as a web-only service and not sharing their changes back with the community. If there is any interest in moving to AGPLv3, the person who started that license (Bradley Kuhn, bkuhn on #autonomo.us on freenode irc) and the FSF license compliance engineer (Brett C Smith, bcs) are part of the autonomo.us group, so I'm sure we could help make that process as smooth as possible. :) [1] autonomo.us: Toward Free Network Services: About Us http://autonomo.us/about/ [2] The Free Software Definition http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html [3] FNS Project Hosting - FNS Software Research http://code.autonomo.us/pm/p/config/wiki/SoftwareResearch [4] = code.autonomo.us: take 2 proposal version 1.0 = http://autonomo.us/wiki/Code.autonomo.us http://lists.autonomo.us/pipermail/discuss/2009-April/000191.html [5] Fossil: To Do List http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/wiki?name=To+Do+List [6] GNU Affero General Public License - Version 3 http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html Cheers, -- Daniel JB Clark | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny
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