-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello again, Dmitriy:
On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 09:09:01 -0800, Sytse Sijbrandij wrote: > Hope you don't mind the reply to all. Dmitriy and me (founders of > GitLab B.V.) strongly believe that global cooperation is a much > stronger business model than competition without collaboration. We may > disagree on tactics such as what license is best for GitLab and our > use of an open core business model. But I think that we both want to > see more freedom and collaboration in software development. We admire > greatly what Mr. Stallman and the FSF have done and continue to do for > the world. Rather than spending the time on a formal analysis of gitlab.com's served JavaScript, I feel like I may be able to get a better understanding and justification from those that developed it. If you have some extra time, I'd appreciate it. With migrating away from Gitorious, it is important for free software users and hackers to understand what code is running within their browser. LibreJS considerations aside (patches can be submitted for that), are there any proprietary modifications to the JavaScript served by gitlab.com's GitLab instance, or are all sources available either in the vanilla installation or another source code repository? I cannot recommend GitHub to anyone because, although I use it, I must do so with JavaScript disabled, which severely hampers (or even prohibits use of) much of its functionality. It would be excellent if I could state confidently that (a) GitLab is not only excellent software, but its hosting serves Free software and is superior to GitHub not only as software, but also as a host; and (b) that GitLab intends to keep it this way. (I am aware of the use of Google Analytics, which is proprietary; it can be easily disabled by their domain, so that is less of a concern.) Would you mind describing to us the current situation, and whether GitLab would be willing to make any guarantees to the community under (b)? This would be useful information for the GNU project as well, as there have been discussions recently on the ethics of GitHub and the like. If you'd prefer to discuss any details in private, feel free to respond directly to me. I'm interested personally as well, since I'm considering my migration options. Thanks. - -- Mike Gerwitz Free Software Hacker | GNU Maintainer http://mikegerwitz.com FSF Member #5804 | GPG Key ID: 0x8EE30EAB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVLNIvAAoJEPIruBWO4w6r0WYQAI1EMtnLkLcO9Cnc4IguE6UB BSwKWs8lN758AoXvTs2i5QFDt+d0es3yK94qsZ1/p5uG5W1+fKtkLCSnNn2+6qqt MjOJ1Ke45np4eD21X2aj6c46AfTz4ucmFgAUVqJeiq7yC8DSRIu37VTIob4C+Nqe NJqA5L5b5y+Ca0KFUaE0xX9L0T8RkUN8fUgoOobVPWAu5dda9LTbiLdj6iNpknIg YjMjM8cn9bUgi9hD6l5msgpv9s4wdy19jJwFFlatiljlWALZQtbQTTWZ7ubO1Wgs bWDsJ4f270n3FTdhErq7j5lEZC7+HgICLj9wlNcy+b11/FaWGEY/BBZGrD6is/y5 CT5LSBXZAYQFhiw3CabscMY0Hg2UwQZPwN9DTDIc8dArYkqrwMB43BfsjkzwqOoX UbscPppVksDziEI1+2EFMuQ/HrgQBueC9Y5RCr5p2QmWLi//ouKhx8FkYF4YsZCV Z//CQDr0q90nuLBv+8qolaaV3QNNKDR+mKquANNVmJx0mYkE1K9YP/Y5cyuJYRHS UmA7WthekOspwMeGaaNWnuOar7d0efsu8Xv2/+75w7kbA8sP2lrXY4BADc7vigGo ts/o/Z3a/z2Uw5cRq6EDKV7JnzoUW03HGKywGcqmomCJKYunNix6nZ+hGwanMd09 vhZYDDLRZzGuEfsrftlX =Q3xa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
