Github ToS and Open Source

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 03 March 2017 10:35:31 Xen wrote:

> Colin Law schreef op 03-03-2017 15:24:
> > Can anyone explain the significance of this in words that the
> > relatively uninitiated can understand?
> > https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20170301-tg.htm
>
> What it appears to say is that Github hosted projects can only be
> forked on Github, all projects must allow to be forked, and
> attribution-style licenses are forbidden.

Humm, I can smell the lawyers trying to wiggle out of that when they get 
sued. Nothing open source about it according to my interp of the gpl.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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