[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":786},["ShallowReactive",2],{"/en-us/blog/gitlab-gitorious-free-software":3,"navigation-en-us":33,"banner-en-us":432,"footer-en-us":442,"blog-post-authors-en-us-Mike Gerwitz":684,"blog-related-posts-en-us-gitlab-gitorious-free-software":698,"assessment-promotions-en-us":737,"next-steps-en-us":776},{"id":4,"title":5,"authorSlugs":6,"body":8,"categorySlug":9,"config":10,"content":14,"description":8,"extension":22,"isFeatured":12,"meta":23,"navigation":24,"path":25,"publishedDate":20,"seo":26,"stem":30,"tagSlugs":31,"__hash__":32},"blogPosts/en-us/blog/gitlab-gitorious-free-software.yml","Gitlab Gitorious Free Software",[7],"mike-gerwitz",null,"company",{"slug":11,"featured":12,"template":13},"gitlab-gitorious-free-software",false,"BlogPost",{"title":15,"description":16,"authors":17,"heroImage":19,"date":20,"body":21,"category":9},"GitLab, Gitorious, and Free Software","This is a guest post by Mike Gerwitz, a free software hacker and activist, and author of GNU ease.js on the free software ideology",[18],"Mike Gerwitz","https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1749663397/Blog/Hero%20Images/logoforblogpost.jpg","2015-05-20","\n\n*This is a guest post by [Mike Gerwitz][11], a [free software][2] hacker and\n activist, and author of [GNU ease.js][24].*\n\nIn early March of this year, it was announced that\n[GitLab would acquire Gitorious][0] and shut down `gitorious.org` by 1\nJune, 2015.  [Reactions from the community][1] 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[software freedom][2].\n\n\u003C!-- more -->\n\nAfter hearing that announcement,\n[as a free software hacker and activist myself][11], I was naturally\nuneasy.  Discussions of alternatives to Gitorious and GitLab ensued on the\n[`libreplanet-discuss`][12] mailing list.  Sytse Sijbrandij (GitLab\nB.V. CEO) happened to be present on that list;\n[I approached him very sternly][13] with a number of concerns, just as I\nwould with anyone that I feel does not understand certain aspects of the\n[free software philosophy][2].  To my surprise, this was not the case at\nall.\n\nSytse 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[software freedom][2], and are commendable.\n\nI 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.\n\n\n## Free Software Ideology\n[Gitorious][3] 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 [GitHub's proprietary services][28], users who value freedom\ncontinued to support Gitorious, both on `gitorious.org` and by installing\ntheir own instances on their own servers.  Since Gitorious is\n[free software][2], users are free to study, modify, and share it with\nothers.  But [software freedom does not apply to Services as a\nSoftware Substitute (SaaSS)][4] or remote services---you cannot apply the\n[four freedoms][2] to something that you do not yourself possess---so why do\nusers still insist on using `gitorious.org` despite this?\n\nThe matter boils down to supporting a philosophy:  The\n[GNU General Public License (GPL)][6] is a license that turns copyright on\nits head: rather than using copyright to restrict what users can do with a\nprogram, the GPL instead [ensures users' freedoms][8] to study, modify, and\nshare it.  But that isn't itself enough: to ensure that the software always\nremains free (as in freedom), the GPL ensures that all *derivatives* are\n*also* licensed under similar terms.  This is known as [copyleft][9], and it\nis vital to the free software movement.\n\nGitorious is licensed under the\n[GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3)][5]---this takes the\n[GPL][6] and adds an additional requirement: if a modified version of the\nprogram is run on a sever, users communicating with the program on that\nserver must have access to the modified program's source code.  This ensures\nthat [modifications to the program are available to all users][7]; 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.\n\nGitLab is also free software: its [Expat license][10] (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 *any* terms, free or not.  In other\nwords, one can fork GitLab and derive a proprietary version from it, making\nchanges that deny users [their freedoms][2] and cannot be incorporated back\ninto the original work.\n\nThis is the issue that the free software community surrounding Gitorious has\na problem with: any changes contributed to GitLab could in turn benefit a\nproprietary derivative.  This situation isn't unique to GitLab: it applies\nto all non-copyleft (\"permissive\") [free software licenses][26].  And this\nissue is realized by GitLab itself in the form of its GitLab Enterprise\nEdition (GitLab EE): a proprietary derivative that adds additional\nfeatures atop of GitLab's free Community Edition (CE).  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.\n\nThe 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) [responded directly to the thread on\n`libreplanet-discuss`][20], stating plainly:\n\n>  We have a simple way of looking at these two versions.  The free\n>  version is free software, so it is ethical.  The nonfree version is\n>  nonfree software, so it is not ethical.\n\nDoes 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.\n\nIf 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 [free software philosophy][2], 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, [is not wrong][23].\n\n\n## Free JavaScript\nAs I mentioned above,\n[software freedom and network services are separate issues][4]---the four\nfreedoms do not apply to interacting with `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.\n\n[Non-free JavaScript][15] 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 [your four freedoms][2] are once again at risk.  This, then,\n[is the primary concern][16] for any users visiting `gitlab.com`: not only\nwould this affect users that use `gitlab.com` as a host, but it would also\naffect *any user that visits* the website.  That would be a problem, since\nhosting your project there would be inviting users to run proprietary\nJavaScript.\n\nAs I was considering migrating my projects to GitLab, this was the\n[first concern I brought up to Sytse][14].  This problem arises because\n`gitlab.com` uses a GitLab EE instance: if it had used only its Community\nEdition (GitLab CE)---which is free software---then all served JavaScript\nwould have been free.  But any scripts served by GitLab EE that are not\nidentical to those served by GitLab CE are proprietary, and therefore\nunethical.  This same concern applies to GitHub, Bitbucket, and other\nproprietary hosts that serve JavaScript.\n\nSytse surprised me by stating that he would be willing to\n[freely license all JavaScript in GitLab EE][17], 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.\n\n**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 *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`LICENSE` file:\n\n> The above copyright notices applies only to the part of this Software that\n> is not distributed as part of GitLab Community Edition (CE), and that is\n> not a file that produces client-side JavaScript, in whole or in part. Any\n> part of this Software distributed as part of GitLab CE or that is a file\n> that produces client-side JavaScript, in whole or in part, is copyrighted\n> under the MIT Expat license.\n\n## Further Discussion\nMy 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 [software freedom][2].\n\nThe 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[LibreJS compliant][21]; 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; `gitlab.com` uses Google Analytics.\n\nIf you would like to help with LibreJS compliance, please [contact me][11].\n\nI 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 [software freedom][2]---the replacement of Disqus on the\n`gitlab.com` blog with a free alternative.  Sytse ended up making a\nsuggestion, saying he'd be \"happy to switch to\" [Juvia][22] 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.)\n\nConsidering 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.\n\n\n## Actions Speak Louder Than Words\nIt 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.  [To quote Sytse][18]:\n\n> I think the only way to prove we're serious about open source is in our\n> actions, licenses or statements don't help.\n\nThere are fundamental disagreements that will not be able to be\nresolved between GitLab and the free software community---like their\n[\"open core\" business model][19].  But after working with Sytse and seeing\nhis interactions with myself, RMS, and many others in the free software\ncommunity, I find his actions to be very encouraging.\n\n*Are you interested in helping other websites liberate their JavaScript?\n Consider [joining the FSF's campaign][27], and\n [please liberate your own][16]!*\n\n*This post is licensed under the\n [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License][25].*\n\n\n[0]: /blog/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/\n[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9138419\n[2]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html\n[3]: https://gitorious.org/\n[4]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html\n[5]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html\n[6]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html\n[7]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html\n[8]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html\n[9]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html\n[10]: 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