Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-08-04 Thread Narcis Garcia
Is cuban people allowed to participate in Fedora development, sames as
UK people do?
Software is one side, project is the other side.


El 4/8/19 a les 6:57, enduz...@riseup.net ha escrit:
> How is this any different from Fedora's export ban? You can use Fedora
> in Cuba (the Cubans do not prohibit it), but you need to take it there
> first, which is illegal (circumventing the US sanctioned embargo).
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Export
> 
> 


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-08-03 Thread jason
They say it doesn't apply to them: "Fedora software in source code and binary  
code form are publicly available and are not subject to the EAR in accordance  
with §742.15(b)." Most of GitHub is probably also "publicly available" too  
and exempt. But, Microsoft takes it further than they need to. They could for  
example do something like this and not block people at all by just saying "If  
you use GitHub you promise you're in one of those places...":  
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#ExportWarranties


The FSF has a good explanation there.

Besides; if you see a certain IP address it's hard to know that the person  
actually is in that country versus, for example, someone located somewhere  
else using TOR and their connection just happens to go through there.  
Assuming that an IP address equates to the ending physical location is faulty  
logic. In that case blocking these actually ends up blocking people that  
shouldn't be by expanding U.S. policy to include people that should not be  
affected.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-08-03 Thread enduzzer
How is this any different from Fedora's export ban? You can use Fedora in  
Cuba (the Cubans do not prohibit it), but you need to take it there first,  
which is illegal (circumventing the US sanctioned embargo).


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Export




Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-08-01 Thread mason
It seems that the same countries have been blocked from GitLab since GitLab  
moved to Google Cloud Platform.[1][2] This doesn't affect third-party  
instances like framagit.org or self-hosted instances, but note that in this  
respect GitLab's own instance is not more accessible than Github.


[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/migration/issues/649
[2] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/07/19/gcp-move-update/


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-08-01 Thread elr

Be careful, gogs version of NAB is a fork and not an standalone version.

Yes, framagit service uses GitLab software.

Both are free software. There is no problem because they are self-hosted  
instances.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-31 Thread jason
There may be a slight misunderstanding. That's not quite what I was  
mentioning. Let's back up for a moment to what nadebula.1984 said.


nadebula.1984's original statement that I was responding to about was exactly  
this: "I can publish a GNU GPL v3-or-Later licensed free/libre software, but  
I can also explicitly prohibit anyone from using it without violating GNU  
GPL."


Let's stop there for a moment. Note their words are "using it", not  
"distributing it" but "using" it. As in, executing the program on their CPU.  
Perhaps that isn't what they meant (since later comments refer to  
distributing/sharing) but it's what they said because "using" a program is  
not the same as "distributing" or "sharing" it.


Anyway, I was pointing out that a prohibition on "using" the program (i.e.,  
executing it on their CPU) would be a "further restriction" within the  
meaning of Section 10. That's why I had quoted the piece like "This License  
explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program."  
So they can "use" it (assuming that they get a copy.) :)


But yes, so would the scenario you mentioned.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-31 Thread Narcis Garcia
You decide your refusals.
Microsoft/Github decide their refusals.

What freedoms decide Trisquel project to deny or restrict?
(not only on software code context but also on participation)


El 31/7/19 a les 5:13, xliang9...@live.cn ha escrit:
> I don't violate Freedom 0 if I deny someone to access a free/libre
> software.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-31 Thread Narcis Garcia
notabug.org service uses gogs.io software
framagit.org  service uses gitlab.com software

El 31/7/19 a les 3:09, e...@disroot.org ha escrit:
> https://notabug.org/hp/gogs/issues/236
> 
> I think it would be a better option using https://framagit.org


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-30 Thread xliang9550
No free/libre license forces the author to grant everyone access to the  
free/libre software, and GNU GPL is no exception.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-30 Thread xliang9550

I don't violate Freedom 0 if I deny someone to access a free/libre software.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-30 Thread elr

https://notabug.org/hp/gogs/issues/236

I think it would be a better option using https://framagit.org


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-30 Thread jason

"can also explicitly prohibit anyone from using it without violating GNU GPL"

A point of order: Publishing a program under the GPLv3 and including that  
would probably be a "further restriction" within the meaning of section 10 of  
GPLv3.


This seems similar to what happens when programs are released under the GPLv3  
but say they're only for "non-commercial use" or "personal use only" or some  
such thing.


The GPL's answer to these types of situations is: "If the Program as you  
received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed  
by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may  
remove that term..." :)


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-30 Thread Ignacio Agulló
On 30/07/19 07:22, wrote:
> It's not good to censor the developers in "Enemies of United States".
> But this is not relevant to freedom. "Accessibility" is not an
> inherent requirement of freedom. (See "Four Essential Freedoms", there
> is no "accessibility".)

 Access != Accessibility

 If you bothered to start reading the Four Freedoms, right at the
start you would find the First Freedom, Freedom 0, "The ability to run
the program for any purpose".  There.

-- 
Ignacio Agulló · grafot...@grafotema.com



Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-30 Thread David Philipe Gil
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Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-30 Thread Narcis Garcia
I understand that article talks about denying use of services, and about
using currently hosted projects to exclude some people participation.

https://github.com/1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us

Important projects are still hosted in Github.com and are affected by
this political exclusion:
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
https://github.com/torvalds/linux
https://github.com/sasanrose/phpredmin
https://github.com/mostafa/iptables_book
https://github.com/keyvank/tracy

And important ones because help to extend Trisquel project:
https://github.com/scollazo/docker-brew-trisquel-debootstrap
https://github.com/VanackSabbadium/TrisquelStuff
https://github.com/proninyaroslav/abrowser-android
https://github.com/proninyaroslav/abrowser-rpm
https://github.com/frnmst/trisquel-installation-script


El 30/7/19 a les 11:29, xliang9...@live.cn ha escrit:
> Every "user" who have one copy of free/libre software can exercise his
> re-distribution freedom (Freedom 2 and 3) to share it with "non-user".
> So, total censorship is technically impossible.
> 
> And this is why companies and governments want to make sharing illegal.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-30 Thread xliang9550
Every "user" who have one copy of free/libre software can exercise his  
re-distribution freedom (Freedom 2 and 3) to share it with "non-user". So,  
total censorship is technically impossible.


And this is why companies and governments want to make sharing illegal.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-30 Thread Narcis Garcia
Sure, you are free (for example) to select your project members by race,
and anti-racist people are free to migrate to another platform.
Let's fitght to keep freedom on platform selection.

gitlab.org is another example for self-hosting and/or self-management.


El 30/7/19 a les 7:22, xliang9...@live.cn ha escrit:
> It's not good to censor the developers in "Enemies of United States".
> But this is not relevant to freedom. "Accessibility" is not an inherent
> requirement of freedom. (See "Four Essential Freedoms", there is no
> "accessibility".)
> 
> To be more specific, I can publish a GNU GPL v3-or-Later licensed
> free/libre software, but I can also explicitly prohibit anyone from
> using it without violating GNU GPL. I don't violate a free/libre license
> as long as I grant the "user subset" four essential freedoms. Anyone not
> belonging to the "user subset" cannot force me to share the source code
> to him. I don't need to care the freedom of "non-user" of the free/libre
> software.
> 
> To be very extreme, I can write a free/libre software and NOT to share
> it with anyone. In other words, anyone else don't even know the
> existence of the free/libre software. Then this is called a "trivial
> free/libre software". Though it does no good, it does no bad (as
> proprietary software does) either.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-29 Thread xliang9550
It's not good to censor the developers in "Enemies of United States". But  
this is not relevant to freedom. "Accessibility" is not an inherent  
requirement of freedom. (See "Four Essential Freedoms", there is no  
"accessibility".)


To be more specific, I can publish a GNU GPL v3-or-Later licensed free/libre  
software, but I can also explicitly prohibit anyone from using it without  
violating GNU GPL. I don't violate a free/libre license as long as I grant  
the "user subset" four essential freedoms. Anyone not belonging to the "user  
subset" cannot force me to share the source code to him. I don't need to care  
the freedom of "non-user" of the free/libre software.


To be very extreme, I can write a free/libre software and NOT to share it  
with anyone. In other words, anyone else don't even know the existence of the  
free/libre software. Then this is called a "trivial free/libre software".  
Though it does no good, it does no bad (as proprietary software does) either.


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-29 Thread jcmartinez2129
I guess the only way that you can do version control in the most free way is  
storing your own repos. Do any of you know how good is notabug.org?


Re: [Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-29 Thread jason
"The end"? GitHub's been proprietary since the beginning so there never was  
any freedom to be lost in the first place.


[Trisquel-users] Off-topic: The end of Freedom in GitHub

2019-07-29 Thread Ignacio Agulló
Microsoft-Owned GitHub Blocks Devs in US Sanctioned Countries
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-owned-github-blocks-devs-in-us-sanctioned-countries/

-- 
Ignacio Agulló · grafot...@grafotema.com