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there is a different and more important criticism listed too, githus is nonfree.

But, github could easily establish a non-us entity to host export restricted code. And for savannah, if anyone had any code they were worried about export control for their code, savannah would quickly and easily have an independent person host that repo outside the US.


To be more specific:

https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#:~:t...

> You agree that any and all content.. that you provide to the public Network... is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow on a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis pursuant to Creative Commons licensing terms (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Technically a lot of people who copy from Stack Overflow are breaking CC BY-SA 4.0 since it requires attribution AND requires distributing code that uses it under the same license ( I think - I am not your lawyer) :

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


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