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> A platform like sourcehut is designed to be self hosted and to allow you to migrate off platform

Sounds nice in theory, until SourceHut changes the licensing terms to forbid self-hosting of certain projects. At this point, I'd rather trust GitHub. At least they don't have a personal vendetta against crypto.



We are not in a position to change the license terms of SourceHut:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-09-ip-assignment-or-lack-...


Sourcehut is licensed under AGPL. It's free and open source software, you don't need permission. Even if the licensing were changed (something I view as extremely unlikely, since it would affect non-crypto customers as well), you can legally take an older snapshot of the code that is licensed under AGPL.


At that point it would be nonfree, a huge step to take




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