[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere licensing and GitHub repositories

[Peter Eckersley]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 01:15:47PM -0500, Seth Woodworth 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<https://github.com/aaronsw/https-everywhere>,
> which is the first result on github for
> 'https-everywhere'<https://github.com/search?q=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 out of date.

A couple of our contributors regularly pull HTTPS Everywhere to github
(https://github.com/2d1/HTTPS-Everywhere for instance), but if people are very
keen to have a current copy on github, I could probably arrange for my push
commands to send to one.

We might even have an EFF github account somewhere that we could use.

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