Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me)

[Tobias Platen]

On 06.03.2015 15:14, John Pozzi wrote:
> of FUD regarding this story. The way you put it fuels
> the conspiracy theory telling that Gitlab killed Gitorious. But reading
> the link you provided, the story is different: Gitorious was dying, and
> they contacted Gitlab to find a solution before crashing into
> bankruptcy. Gitlab responded by acquiring Gitorious, leaving its
> founders free to do something else without the (financial) burden of
> their commercial failure.
> So yes, Gitorious code is GPL, and Gitlab code is X11. That means
> Gitlab has no interest in using Gitorious code, and they simply will
> allow a smooth transition for existing Gitorious projects to Gitlab.
> If there is a vested interest in GPL-izing Gitlab code, it should be
> discussed with them. The choice of the X11 license was made because the
> whole stack is distributed under that license. If and when Gitlab

Maybe the Free Software Foundation should start hosting a Gitlab or 
Gitorious instance and maintain a free program that is under the AGPL.
So if you contribute to Gitlab, you should licence your changes under 
the AGPL which is forking the program. I did the same thing with a 
different program called WORLD[1] that was originally licensed under the 
GPLv3 because the FFT-Library was GPLv3, but then the author changed the 
licence to BSD and there are now proprietery programs that use WORLD. 
But I dedided to continue using WORLD and add code from other programs 
that are licensed under the GPLv3, including the GNU GSL library and 
Aubio. But I renamed the program to sekai which is the Japanese word for 
world. The GPLv3 sekai software is hosted on Gitorious, and I will now 
migrate to a differnt hoster. Maybe I will choose gna, or setup my own 
instance of Gitorious.


[1] http://ml.cs.yamanashi.ac.jp/world/english/index.html