GitHub Terms of Service & What That Means For This License

[Hellscaped]

GitHub does NOT allow Source Available in public repositories. There is a clause in the terms of service that says any public repository you dump on GitHub must be free for users to fork and redistribute, and therefore NOT Source Available.

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/licensing-a-repository

If you publish your source code in a public repository on GitHub, according to the Terms of Service, other users of GitHub.com have the right to view and fork your repository. If you have already created a repository and no longer want users to have access to the repository, you can make the repository private. When you change the visibility of a repository to private, existing forks or local copies created by other users will still exist. For more information, see Setting repository visibility.

If you still wish to keep it Source Available, I would advise moving off GitHub to a selfhosted Gitea instance as Essential is inadvertently breaking the GitHub Terms of Service.

[Hellscaped]

The README.md update was a placeholder to open this PR, can be ignored.

[blryface]

inb4 ignored & closed

[Hellscaped]

inb4 ignored & closed

I've already reported the repo to github as contingency in the event this happens. The only way they do not get mauled by github is they either relocate or relicense.

[blryface]

inb4 also ignored by GitHub and this is just the way this repo will be for the foreseeable future

[Lamby777]

The only way they do not get mauled by github is they either relocate or relicense.

inb4 also ignored by GitHub and this is just the way this repo will be for the foreseeable future

or they just delete the repo and go full closed-source. truly a winampdesktop moment

also hey it's you from the polymc 2022 commit shitposting thread :D

[Eveeifyeve]

If you still wish to keep it Source Available, I would advise moving off GitHub to a selfhosted Gitea instance as Essential is inadvertently breaking the GitHub Terms of Service.

An other alternative is moving to gitlab or an self hosted gitlab instance of their own.