From 5b515b1adb96cbfe92d3c9a15387ca943d6af993 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Starfall Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 12:25:51 -0500 Subject: Transition away from GitHub repository * Change link footer and onboarding model to point to our personal Git repository and direct folks to email us for collaboration * Remove now-unnecessary .github folder and add it to .gitignore [I am not actually sure if this will prevent us from getting those files again in the future.] * Restore English locale to upstream version and move our changes into the en-cafe custom locale. * Remove most of the README for clarity. After GitHub's contract with ICE came to light, we moved our personal projects away from the site. With Copilot now effectively laundering code under free licenses through machine learning by claiming that training a model is "fair use" even when it directly quotes the input, it's clear now that making the effort to move our Mastodon fork off of GitHub is worth the effort. But even if the model *never* recited anyone's source, we consider it to be clearly unethical to use open source code in this way without a permissive license or written consent from the authors of any non-trivial contributions. Whether or not the law agrees, this is clearly a derivative work in the colloquial sense of the term. We needed to build our own CI/CD solution in the next week and a half anyway because Docker Hub is removing automatic builds from the free tier. We're under no illusions that moving to our personal Git host will actually stop anyone from doing whatever they want with what we post publicly on the Internet. But we're both sending a message and learning how to build our own infrastructure, which will hopefully be helpful to us in the future. You can read more about GitHub's ICE deals here: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-github-ceo-why-we-defend-ice-deal-in-the-face-of-employee-anger/ You can read about GitHub Copilot quoting source code, and the steps they've taken to reduce its frequency, here: https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitation --- app/javascript/flavours/glitch/locales/en.js | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'app/javascript/flavours/glitch/locales/en.js') diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/locales/en.js b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/locales/en.js index 699affd70..90e924d4a 100644 --- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/locales/en.js +++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/locales/en.js @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ import inherited from 'mastodon/locales/en.json'; const messages = { - 'getting_started.open_source_notice': 'GlitchCafe is free open source software based on {Glitchsoc} and {Mastodon}. You can see our source code on GitHub at {github}.', + 'getting_started.open_source_notice': 'Glitchsoc is free open source software forked from {Mastodon}. You can contribute or report issues on GitHub at {github}.', 'layout.auto': 'Auto', 'layout.current_is': 'Your current layout is:', 'layout.desktop': 'Desktop', @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ const messages = { 'getting_started.onboarding': 'Show me around', 'onboarding.page_one.federation': '{domain} is an \'instance\' of Mastodon. Mastodon is a network of independent servers joining up to make one larger social network. We call these servers instances.', 'onboarding.page_one.welcome': 'Welcome to {domain}!', - 'onboarding.page_six.github': '{domain} runs on GlitchCafe, which is based on Glitchsoc. Glitchsoc is a friendly {fork} of {Mastodon}, and is compatible with any Mastodon instance or app. GlitchCafe includes Plural Cafe-specific additions to Glitchsoc. Glitchsoc is entirely free and open-source. You can report bugs, request features, or contribute to the code on {github}.', + 'onboarding.page_six.github': '{domain} runs on Glitchsoc. Glitchsoc is a friendly {fork} of {Mastodon}, and is compatible with any Mastodon instance or app. Glitchsoc is entirely free and open-source. You can report bugs, request features, or contribute to the code on {github}.', 'settings.auto_collapse': 'Automatic collapsing', 'settings.auto_collapse_all': 'Everything', 'settings.auto_collapse_lengthy': 'Lengthy toots', -- cgit