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  • The license on server forbids you to do anything about it, but it is “hey look, open source!”. i.e. You can see, develop and modify the code on your own but under the license you can’t do anything about it. That’s really saying you are allowed to develop something you legally cannot own unless you paid the subscription, on top of that they can slap the “open source” label on it.





  • Git is distributed, but

    1. so do many vcs created after git, eg. hg, pijul

    2. a platform that hosts the repos and issue trackers is different tool.

    Security is the main problem here, you normally don’t visit a random host to download the software from, just like you don’t put money on a random unknown bank/stock. That’s the reason I think it is not being federated yet, bc you want to stick with the trusted instance you pick anyway even if it is federated, but then there is not much difference for the host to host the platform without fediverse.