Re: [libreplanet-discuss] support me

[hellekin]

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On 03/06/15 12:45, Aaron Wolf wrote:
> 
> AGPL is a must for stuff like web services
> 
*** +1

I would expect Gitlab to stand for software freedom and shutdown this
controversy.  Gitlab is a great step away from Github, as it offers
self-hosting.  But if Sytse Sijbrandij won't distinguish himself from
Tom Preston-Werner, the march towards software freedom stops there.

The comment highlighted earlier [0] by the Libreboot team, saying that
"MIT [...] has the least amount of restrictions for everyone" makes it
clear who "everyone" is (not us).  The arguments supporting the license
switch away from "MIT" to a proprietary license for Gitlab EE [1] build
on the same bullshit arguments that the open-source people use(d)
against free software: *confusion with price*.

Then the FSF should take extra care to provide a working narrative that
can convince business-oriented people that in the 21st Century, global
cooperation is a much stronger business model than competition.

With the honorable end of Gitorious enabled by Gitlab Inc., the free
software community has an opportunity to gather around the AGPL banner
and build long term trust in a cooperative platform for sharing code.
Or to divide again and split the effort to duplicate once more the same
functionality.

When Gitlab appeared as a Github clone, I was very happy, because Github
was way way better than the existing Web-based code repositories (and
still is for the most part).  Gitlab was a big surprise as they caught
up on Github.  The Gitlab EE license switch was a terrible decision, but
since the Gitlab CE moved on, providing much better functionality than
SF.net (eaten by some corporation), GNU Savannah (stalling in the
distant past), or Gitorious (ranging from clunky to unusable), it was
still better than nothing.

Can we think like we're in the 21st Century, and make software freedom
work (and earn) for itself, or are we going to waste more time and
energy believing in the superiority of proprietary software for
sustainable business?  Where is the FSF narrative for GNU Business?  Why
is it so difficult for Fortune 100 companies to accept the idea that
(A)GPL is good for their business?

==
hk

[0]:
https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/#comment-1885545097
[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/2014/02/11/gitlab-ee-license-change/

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