Transifex has moved to a closed-source model
Dirk Hohndel
dirk at hohndel.org
Fri Jul 4 06:34:06 PDT 2014
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 01:13:35PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> as far as i understood the implications on a quick read and since
> their desired model is the current github model as a comparison, why
> move from a closed source online service which provides free of charge
> project hosting, given there are no license clashes - i.e. subsurface
> will still remain GPL compliant?
>
> if subsurface applies a new ideology in the lines of "we will not use
> a closed source online service", then subsurface should stop using
> github as well.
>
> "The decision was engineering-driven, not business-driven"
> if the above is true and unless they suddenly add some limitations for
> a free project after the change, such as 10 max languages i don't see
> the need to switch services.
Completely agree.
Side node - git.hohndel.org is the main repository. I push to github
mostly for historic reasons... so dropping github would be quite easy for
me :-)
/D
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