Hello,
I think that all interests publicly stated here aren't too far away from each other and form a common notion, which everyone probably can live with in practice: Fundamental: 1. Living Free Software consequently is important. 2. Outreach/building a 'bridge' to others is important for community growth. 3. More Accessibility is good for point 2, also in form of more user friendly descriptions. Consequences: Officially GNUnet keeps relying on self-hosting and staying away from GitHub. Inofficially individuals, who feel the need for GNUnet to be accessible over GitHub, are free to create a GitHub mirror, but are recommended to not just build a simple 'bridge', but design it's descriptions and functionality in a way, which makes it more attractive for visitors of the GitHub mirror, to turn to the self-hosted infrastructure of the GNUnet project. The GNUnet project keeps working at becoming more user friendly and accessible, and individuals feeling the need for GNUnet to go into this direction including the ones with interest in GNUnet presence on GitHub are recommended to rather put their appreciated efforts into improving key project-public-interfaces like the new upcoming website, the documentation, and the README file than creating said GitHub mirror. Please consider: - If you use GitHub, you contribute to a certain amount to making GitHub the norm - no matter how you use GitHub - GitHub structurally works against Free Software: GNUnet is licensed GNU AGPLv3orlater, but it's not possible to make GitHub website template say so. It just lets you say 'GNU AGPLv3', lets the 'orlater' part drop. So in disfavor of the GNUnet project, everyone interested in GNUnet project, and the Free Software movement practically important license clarification is reduced, especially regarding code sharing capability of GNUnet code with project code of projects using a new AGPL versions, in case there ever will be a release of a new AGPL version - GitHub belongs to Microsoft. Practically, next to Facebook, Google, and Twitter, Microsoft is an arm of the NSA by the NSA's PRISM program. Greetings, Bastian Schmidt --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Christian Grothoff <groth...@gnunet.org> Datum: 02.08.2018 19:07:05 An: gnunet-developers@gnu.org Betreff: Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github > https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Freedom-for-Web-Pages is > > very clear on this: "If you use a site other than www.gnu.org, please > > make sure that the site runs on free software alone." > Note that there is no policy against individuals creating GitHub mirrors > > of our master Git repository, just as a GNU package we shall not create > any official mirror there. _______________________________________________ GNUnet-developers mailing list GNUnet-developers@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers