[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere licensing and GitHub repositories

[Ian Cordasco]

I'd be happy to help maintain it too. I need to update my fork on
Gitorious as well and add a rule I wrote and have been testing.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at sethish.com> wrote:
> When I tried to contribute a patch a year and a half ago, I had a hard time
> finding the source tree.
> I ended up submitting a pull request via github to aaronsw's repo, which is
> the first result on github for 'https-everywhere'.
>
> Would the EFF be amenable to a github fork of https-everywhere?  It would
> lower the overhead of contributors finding the project and submitting rules.
> There are already a dozen or so forks on github, and all of them out of
> date.
>
> --S
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:41 AM, <mezzanine at safe-mail.net> wrote:
>>
>> Late last year, there was an InfoWorld article, "GitHub needs to take open
>> source seriously" about
>> licensing information being unclear for GitHub repositories.
>>
>> GitHub needs to take open source seriously
>>
>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/github-needs-take-open-source-seriously-208046?page=0,1
>>
>> Perhaps it would be useful to add a blurb about HTTPS Everywhere licensing
>> to the README file that is
>> already present in the source tree. (According to the
>> https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/development
>> page, the HTTPS Everywhere code is licensed under GPLv3+ with most of the
>> code being GPLv2 compatible;
>> presumably, the contributed rulesets are also licensed under GPLv3+.) In
>> addition, there might be
>> something to be said for including a text copy of the GPLv3 license file
>> in case someone comes across
>> the HTTPS Everywhere code in the future and is interested in reusing it.
>>
>> --Richard
>>
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