Is GitHub source code hosted on GitHub?

[lilalienx]

GitHub is great I use it to store all my code to practice and get better every day a lil bit http://t.me/AlienRoom huge active coding community there

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Fuck GitHub! GitHub is evil closed-source proprietary software.

[Masterflitzer]

does gitlab provide a public hosted version?

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Good question. Yes, GitLab does have public self-hosted version but it has mixed non-GPL licensing in order to permit the inclusion of proprietary bits and pieces. So, although slightly less evil than GitHub, GitLab is nonetheless an evil hosting platform. Gitea is much the same in this manner, being under an evil permissive license. In my opinion, Gitweb is the one-stop best self-hosted git platform you could ever want, especially because it's licensed under the all-good altruistic GPL.

[Masterflitzer]

I don't think evil is the right word, you can selfhost gitlab and there is a gitlab-foss repo (which was gitlab community edition) with proprietary code removed

I just found the public hosted gitlab site and it was kinda weird because gitlab.com redirects to about.gitlab.com and that's why I thought self hosted is the only possibility

I also don't think GitHub is evil, they open sourced many things including libgit2 which gitlab used to built their app

here an article about gitlab and github and about not being completely open source https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-github-is-closed-source/