Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 15:48:38 +0100
From: Alexander Harkness <me@bearbin.net>
To: "Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com>
Cc: <~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss@lists.sr.ht>, "Alexandru-Sergiu Marton"
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Subject: Re: Discuss: proposed changes to the SourceHut terms of service
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On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:41:49 -0600
"Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com> wrote:

> On Wed Jun 3, 2020 at 10:35 AM MDT, Alexander Harkness wrote:
> > I am also concerned with the loose language about "the services".
> > By my reading of the proposed ToS, I would no longer be able to use
> > sourcehut to track issues or run a mailing list for my hypothetical
> > non-free project, even if the source code was hosted elsewhere (or
> > even if my project didn't have 'code' as such!). These features of
> > sourcehut stand on their own and enforcing restrictions would be an
> > unwelcome imposition on user freedom. =20
>=20
> Your reading is correct, this is by design. The goal is not to support
> proprietary software endeavours in any way.

I can't say I agree with this, even though it's a perfectly reasonable
position for a service like sourcehut to take.=20

Just in the same way as private repositories are allowed to contain
non free-software content, I think allowing at least the lists, todo and
wiki services to be used without restriction is helpful to users who
want to work on their own projects without having to perform
context-switches between many different project platforms. My feeling
is that that would not compromise the mission while at the same time
enhancing usability for real-world free-software developers using
sourcehut in the main for free-software development.

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