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Amicese@lemmy.ml to Lemmy@lemmy.ml ·
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Lemmy's source code should be hosted independent of proprietary services.

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Lemmy's source code should be hosted independent of proprietary services.

Amicese@lemmy.ml to Lemmy@lemmy.ml ·
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Forgefriends highlights how propriety services, like GitHub, can lock in a projects and destroy its momentum.

Lots of major free software projects are hosted by the project creators to avoid being screwed over by proprietary services.

Examples

  • FSF
  • Linux Foundation

If Microsoft were to release a competing link aggregator; then they could persuade GitHub (Microsoft’s subsidiary) into locking or removing the main repository for Lemmy’s source code.

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  • Zeth0s@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    If that happens

    git remote set-url origin newurl
    

    Not saying self hosting the remote is not a good idea, just that the risk you mention is not so dramatic

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      Yup, Microsoft can’t relicense the code, it can merely make it inconvenient to access on their platform. It’s really a non-issue.

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    Codeberg! Codeberg! Codeberg!

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