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Lemmy's source code should be hosted independent of proprietary services. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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