GNUstep Developers Consider Forking The Project, Moving Away From FSF

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNUstep Developers Consider Forking The Project, Moving Away From FSF

The lead developer of GNUstep, a GPL-licensed implementation of Apple's Cocoa frameworks and toolkit, is considering a fork of the project...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNUstep-Possible-Fork

[Goddard]

Sounds like pretty petty reasoning.

[greg.casamento]

Goddard, If you had even read the threads which have been being discussed on the mailing list, you would know there are a myriad of reasons why this is being considered. GitHub, GitLab, whatever is just the tip of the iceberg. If you want the full story read the mailing list at [email protected].

[mrmcq2u]

Would be great to see a merge between EtoileOS and GNUstep. They have already migrated to Github and target GNUstep and are MIT/BSD licensed.

[tigerroast]

FSF needs to be forked and re-hosted to Earth.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Should have happened fifteen years ago. Too little too late, Greg. All the momentum should have coincided with Rhapsody, and when LLVM/Clang became the official direction Apple was going GNUStep should have abanonded the FSF once and for all.

[caligula]

Maybe a closed source license would attract more contributors?

[peppercats]

Github is a horrible decision, maybe they should move away from FSF if they're so against reading terms of service.

[unixfan2001]

Github is a horrible decision, maybe they should move away from FSF if they're so against reading terms of service.

How is it a horrible decision?
As opposed to the stuff they're using now, it's actually widely used.

I honestly can't understand why anyone working on an open source community project would host the project anywhere but on Github.

[odilitime]

Well there are always hosted GitLab/GoG alternatives like GitGud.IO and NotABug.org