[LEDE-DEV] Github's new TOS

[Eric Schultz]

On 03/02/2017 12:02 PM, Daniel Golle wrote:
> Hi!
>
> For your consideration: Please have a look at
> https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/removing_everything_from_github/
>
> This is not very surprising -- if power gets too concentrated it's
> only a matter of time to see it being abused. Hopefully we can pull
> stuff out there without implicitely acknowledging the new terms by
> doing that.
> I wonder how big player (torvald/linux.git and such) are going to
> react to this.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Daniel

As another datapoint, I asked Richard Fontana, current Redhat lawyer and
co-drafter of the GPL3, and he referred to analysis in the article as
"basically wrong"[1]. So it seems unclear whether this has a negative
effect or not.

Eric Schultz

[1]: https://twitter.com/richardfontana/status/837370085392199681