Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] Rough Draft of Announcement (Task 2)

[Aaron Wolf]

On 03/14/2016 08:57 AM, John Sullivan wrote:
> Mike Gerwitz <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 00:43:33 +0000, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
>>> I have also been in touch with GitHub customer support, and they don't seem
>>> very interested / motivated in meeting the criteria ("Nor can I say that
>>> meeting the criteria is on our roadmap for the foreseeable future") - not
>>> that I'm particularly surprised by this response. Has anyone had any
>>> success, or know anyone else I should contact?
>>
>> I have tried personally, and RMS has tried as well.  Neither of us had
>> any success.  See:
>>
>>   https://mikegerwitz.com/about/githubbub
>>
>> Thank you for trying, though. :)
>>
> 
> I have some open conversations with Github right now (see the related
> recent improvements made to choosealicense.com -- now listing GPLv3,
> GPLv3 example projects, and friendlier language about copyleft). I can
> try to raise some issues related to the criteria if someone sends me a
> brief bullet list in order of importance.
> 
> -john
> 

Wonderful! Their previous GPLv2 focus and the false implication that
Apache was the only patent option (ignoring GPLv3) was pretty obnoxious.