[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1268},["ShallowReactive",2],{"/blog/gitlab-gitorious-free-software":3,"navigation-en-us":484,"banner-en-us":910,"footer-en-us":920,"blog-post-authors-en-us-Mike Gerwitz":1165,"blog-related-posts-en-us-gitlab-gitorious-free-software":1180,"blog-promotions-en-us":1204,"next-steps-en-us":1258},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"body":8,"category":439,"date":440,"description":441,"extension":442,"externalUrl":443,"faq":443,"featured":444,"heroImage":445,"meta":446,"navigation":474,"path":475,"seo":476,"slug":480,"stem":481,"tags":443,"template":482,"updatedDate":443,"__hash__":483},"blogPosts/en-us/blog/gitlab-gitorious-free-software.md","GitLab, Gitorious, and Free Software",[7],"Mike Gerwitz",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":431},"minimark",[11,36,59,86,93,96,101,136,165,185,203,212,223,229,232,244,248,260,289,301,310,325,330,334,340,352,359,375,378,382,391,396,405,421],[12,13,14],"p",{},[15,16,17,18,23,24,29,30,35],"em",{},"This is a guest post by ",[19,20,7],"a",{"href":21,"rel":22},"http://mikegerwitz.com/",[],", a ",[19,25,28],{"href":26,"rel":27},"https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html",[],"free software"," hacker and\nactivist, and author of ",[19,31,34],{"href":32,"rel":33},"https://gnu.org/software/easejs",[],"GNU ease.js",".",[12,37,38,39,43,44,48,49,54,55,35],{},"In early March of this year, it was announced that\n",[19,40,42],{"href":41},"/blog/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/","GitLab would acquire Gitorious"," and shut down ",[45,46,47],"code",{},"gitorious.org"," by 1\nJune, 2015.  ",[19,50,53],{"href":51,"rel":52},"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9138419",[],"Reactions from the community"," were mixed, and\nunderstandably so: while GitLab itself is a formidable alternative to wholly\nproprietary services, its acquisition of Gitorious strikes a chord with the\nfree software community that gathered around Gitorious in the name of\n",[19,56,58],{"href":26,"rel":57},[],"software freedom",[12,60,61,62,66,67,74,75,80,81,85],{},"After hearing that announcement,\n",[19,63,65],{"href":21,"rel":64},[],"as a free software hacker and activist myself",", I was naturally\nuneasy.  Discussions of alternatives to Gitorious and GitLab ensued on the\n",[19,68,71],{"href":69,"rel":70},"https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss",[],[45,72,73],{},"libreplanet-discuss"," mailing list.  Sytse Sijbrandij (GitLab\nB.V. CEO) happened to be present on that list;\n",[19,76,79],{"href":77,"rel":78},"https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2015-03/msg00075.html",[],"I approached him very sternly"," with a number of concerns, just as I\nwould with anyone that I feel does not understand certain aspects of the\n",[19,82,84],{"href":26,"rel":83},[],"free software philosophy",".  To my surprise, this was not the case at\nall.",[12,87,88,89,92],{},"Sytse has spent a lot of time accepting and considering community input for\nboth the Gitorious acquisition and GitLab itself.  He has also worked with\nme to address some of the issues that I had raised.  And while these issues\nwon't address everyone's concerns, they do strengthen GitLab's commitment to\n",[19,90,58],{"href":26,"rel":91},[],", and are commendable.",[12,94,95],{},"I wish to share some of these details here; but to do so, I first have to\nprovide some background to explain what the issues are, and why they are\nimportant.",[97,98,100],"h2",{"id":99},"free-software-ideology","Free Software Ideology",[12,102,103,108,109,114,115,117,118,121,122,127,128,132,133,135],{},[19,104,107],{"href":105,"rel":106},"https://gitorious.org/",[],"Gitorious"," was (and still is) one of the most popular Git repository\nhosts, and largely dominated until the introduction of GitHub.  But even as\nusers flocked to ",[19,110,113],{"href":111,"rel":112},"http://mikegerwitz.com/about/githubbub",[],"GitHub's proprietary services",", users who value freedom\ncontinued to support Gitorious, both on ",[45,116,47],{}," and by installing\ntheir own instances on their own servers.  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This ensures\nthat ",[19,180,183],{"href":181,"rel":182},"https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html",[],"modifications to the program are available to all users","; they\nwould otherwise be hidden in private behind the server, with others unable\nto incorporate, study, or share them.  The AGPLv3 is an ideal license for\nGitorious, since most of its users will only ever interact with it over a\nnetwork.",[12,186,187,188,193,194,197,198,202],{},"GitLab is also free software: its ",[19,189,192],{"href":190,"rel":191},"https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat",[],"Expat license"," (commonly referred to\nambiguously as the \"MIT license\") permits all of the same freedoms that\nare granted under the GNU GPL.  But it does so in a way that is highly\npermissive: it permits relicensing under ",[15,195,196],{},"any"," terms, free or not.  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For this reason,\nmany free software advocates are uncomfortable contributing to GitLab, and\nfeel that they should instead support other projects; this, in turn, means\nnot supporting GitLab by using and drawing attention to their hosting\nservices.",[12,213,214,215,222],{},"The copyleft vs. permissive licensing debate is one of the free software\nmovement's most heated.  I do not wish to get into such a debate here.  One\nthing is clear: GitLab Community Edition (GitLab CE) is free\nsoftware.  Richard Stallman (RMS) ",[19,216,219,220],{"href":217,"rel":218},"https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2015-03/msg00095.html",[],"responded directly to the thread on\n",[45,221,73],{},", stating plainly:",[224,225,226],"blockquote",{},[12,227,228],{},"We have a simple way of looking at these two versions.  The free\nversion is free software, so it is ethical.  The nonfree version is\nnonfree software, so it is not ethical.",[12,230,231],{},"Does GitLab CE deserve attention from the free software community?  I\nbelieve so.  Importantly, there is another strong consideration: displacing\nproprietary services like GitHub and Bitbucket, which host a large number of\nprojects and users.  GitLab has a strong foothold, which is an excellent\nplace for a free software project to be in.",[12,233,234,235,238,239,35],{},"If we are to work together as a community, we need to respect GitLab's\nfree licensing choices just as we expect GitLab to respect ours.  Providing\nrespect does not mean that you are conceding: I will never personally use a\nnon-copyleft license for my software; I'm firmly rooted in my dedication to\nthe ",[19,236,84],{"href":26,"rel":237},[],", and I'm sure that many other readers are\ntoo.  But using a non-copyleft license, although many of us consider it to\nbe a weaker alternative, ",[19,240,243],{"href":241,"rel":242},"https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions",[],"is not wrong",[97,245,247],{"id":246},"free-javascript","Free JavaScript",[12,249,250,251,255,256,259],{},"As I mentioned above,\n",[19,252,254],{"href":124,"rel":253},[],"software freedom and network services are separate issues","---the four\nfreedoms do not apply to interacting with ",[45,257,258],{},"gitlab.com"," purely over a network\nconnection, for example, because you are not running its software on your\ncomputer.  However, there is an overlap: JavaScript code downloaded to be\nexecuted in your web browser.",[12,261,262,267,268,272,273,278,279,281,282,284,285,288],{},[19,263,266],{"href":264,"rel":265},"https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html",[],"Non-free JavaScript"," is a particularly nasty concern: it is software\nthat is downloaded automatically from a server---often without prompting\nyou---and then immediately executed.  Software is now being executed on your\nmachine, and ",[19,269,271],{"href":26,"rel":270},[],"your four freedoms"," are once again at risk.  This, then,\n",[19,274,277],{"href":275,"rel":276},"https://www.gnu.org/software/easejs/whyfreejs.html",[],"is the primary concern"," for any users visiting ",[45,280,258],{},": not only\nwould this affect users that use ",[45,283,258],{}," as a host, but it would also\naffect ",[15,286,287],{},"any user that visits"," the website.  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This same concern applies to GitHub, Bitbucket, and other\nproprietary hosts that serve JavaScript.",[12,302,303,304,309],{},"Sytse surprised me by stating that he would be willing to\n",[19,305,308],{"href":306,"rel":307},"https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2015-04/msg00020.html",[],"freely license all JavaScript in GitLab EE",", and by offering to give\nanyone access to the GitLab EE source code who wants to help out.  I took\nhim up on that offer.  Initially, I had submitted a patch to merge all\nGitLab EE JavaScript into GitLab CE, but Sytse came up with another,\nsuperior suggestion, that ultimately provided even greater reach.",[12,311,312,316,317,320,321,324],{},[313,314,315],"strong",{},"I'm pleased to announce that Sytse and I were able to agree on a license\nchange (with absolutely no friction or hesitation on his part) that\nliberates all JavaScript served to the client from GitLab EE instances.","\nThere are two concerns that I had wanted to address: JavaScript code\ndirectly written for the client, and any code that produced JavaScript as\noutput.  In the former case, this includes JavaScript derived from other\nsources: for example, GitLab uses CoffeeScript, which compiles ",[15,318,319],{},"into","\nJavaScript.  The latter case is important: if there is any code that\ngenerates fragments of JavaScript---e.g. dynamically at runtime---then that\ncode must also be free, or users would not be able to modify and share the\nresulting JavaScript that is actually being run on the client.  Sytse\naccepted my change verbatim, while adding his own sentence after mine to\ndisambiguate.  At the time of writing this post, GitLab EE's source code\nisn't yet publicly visible, so here is the relevant snippet from its\n",[45,322,323],{},"LICENSE"," file:",[224,326,327],{},[12,328,329],{},"The above copyright notices applies only to the part of this Software that\nis not distributed as part of GitLab Community Edition (CE), and that is\nnot a file that produces client-side JavaScript, in whole or in part. Any\npart of this Software distributed as part of GitLab CE or that is a file\nthat produces client-side JavaScript, in whole or in part, is copyrighted\nunder the MIT Expat license.",[97,331,333],{"id":332},"further-discussion","Further Discussion",[12,335,336,337,35],{},"My discussions with Sytse did not end there: there are other topics that\nhave not been able to be addressed before my writing of this post that would\ndo well to demonstrate commitment toward ",[19,338,58],{"href":26,"rel":339},[],[12,341,342,343,348,349,351],{},"The license change liberating client-side JavaScript was an excellent\nmove.  To expand upon it, I wish to submit a patch that would make GitLab\n",[19,344,347],{"href":345,"rel":346},"https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/free-your-javascript.html",[],"LibreJS compliant","; this provides even greater guarantees, since it\nwould allow for users to continue to block other non-free JavaScript that\nmay be served by the GitLab instance, but not produced by it.  For example:\na website/host that uses GitLab may embed proprietary JavaScript, or modify\nit without releasing the source code.  Another common issue is the user of\nanalytics software; ",[45,350,258],{}," uses Google Analytics.",[12,353,354,355,35],{},"If you would like to help with LibreJS compliance, please ",[19,356,358],{"href":21,"rel":357},[],"contact me",[12,360,361,362,365,366,368,369,374],{},"I was brought into another discussion between Sytse and RMS that is\nunrelated to the GitLab software itself, but still a positive demonstration\nof a commitment to ",[19,363,58],{"href":26,"rel":364},[],"---the replacement of Disqus on the\n",[45,367,258],{}," blog with a free alternative.  Sytse ended up making a\nsuggestion, saying he'd be \"happy to switch to\" ",[19,370,373],{"href":371,"rel":372},"https://github.com/phusion/juvia",[],"Juvia"," if I'd help with\nthe migration.  I'm looking forward to this, as it is an important\ndiscussion area (that I honestly didn't know existed until Sytse told me\nabout it, because I don't permit proprietary JavaScript!).  He was even kind\nenough to compile a PDF of comments for one of our discussions, since he was\ncognizant ahead of time that I would not want to use Disqus.  (Indeed, I\nwill be unable to read and participate in the comments to this guest post\nunless I take the time to freely read and reply without running Disqus'\nproprietary JavaScript.)",[12,376,377],{},"Considering the genuine interest and concern expressed by Sytse in working\nwith myself and the free software community, I can only expect that GitLab\nwill continue to accept and apply community input.",[97,379,381],{"id":380},"actions-speak-louder-than-words","Actions Speak Louder Than Words",[12,383,384,385,390],{},"It is not possible to address the copyleft issue without a change in\nlicense, which GitLab is not interested in doing.  So the best way to\nre-assure the community is through action.  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