Published September 18, 2026 · Added September 18, 2026

What's Wrong with GitHub?

FOSS Force republishes a GNU Project essay by Jacob Bachmeyer and Richard Stallman urging developers to stop hosting repositories on GitHub, citing vague GPL licensing guidance that treats copying a license file as sufficient, nonfree JavaScript and telemetry in GitHub's CLI, Copilot as a SaaSS dis-service whose GPL-derived suggestions carry unresolved legal risk and whose billing GitHub can change at will, and gamification and centralization that pull distributed Git workflows into a walled garden.

FOSS Force republishes a GNU Project essay by Jacob Bachmeyer and Richard Stallman urging developers to stop hosting repositories on GitHub, citing vague GPL licensing guidance that treats copying a license file as sufficient, nonfree JavaScript and telemetry in GitHub’s CLI, Copilot as a SaaSS dis-service whose GPL-derived suggestions carry unresolved legal risk and whose billing GitHub can change at will, and gamification and centralization that pull distributed Git workflows into a walled garden.

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Source: FOSS Force