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<h2>GNU Ethical Repository Criteria Evaluations</h2>
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<p>We maintain this evaluation report presenting the compliance level
of repository services with the <a
href="/software/repo-criteria.html">GNU ethical repository
criteria</a>.  There are some criteria that we can't possibly verify,
in which case we accept the site maintainer's word on the matter.
This evaluation is done by <a
href="/software/repo-criteria.html#volunteers">volunteers</a>
coordinated by the <a href="//www.fsf.org">Free Software
Foundation</a>, and you are welcome to contribute.</p>

<p>We refer to these services by their domain names,
rather than their common names (eg: savannah.gnu.org vs. Savannah).
That is because the software for most of these services
is also available for self-hosting as free software.
Installing that software on your own server, and using it yourself,
avoids most of these ethical issues (all but A1).</p>

<p>Therefore, here we address the ethics of the service operators.</p>

<table class="listing" style="border: 0">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Site</th>
      <th>Grade</th>
      <th>Date</th>
      <th>Criteria Version</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr class="odd">
      <td><a href="#savannah-gnu-org">savannah.gnu.org</a></td>
      <td><a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A">A</a></td>
      <td>2015-10-01</td>
      <td>1.1</td>
    </tr>
	<tr class="even">
      <td><a href="#GitLab">GitLab</a></td> href="#sr-ht">sr.ht</a></td>
      <td><a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#B">B</a></td>
      <td>2021-03-05</td>
      <td>1.1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="odd">
      <td><a href="#notabug-org">notabug.org</a></td>
      <td><a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#C">C</a></td>
      <td>2015-11-05</td>
      <td>2021-03-23</td>
      <td>1.1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="even">
      <td><a href="#gitlab-com">gitlab.com</a></td>
      <td><a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#F">F</a></td>
      <td>2021-05-05</td>
      <td>1.1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="odd">
      <td><a href="#GitHub">GitHub</a></td> href="#github-com">github.com</a></td>
      <td><a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#F">F</a></td>
      <td>2016-04-13</td>
      <td>2021-04-02</td>
      <td>1.1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="even">
      <td><a href="#sourceforge-net">sourceforge.net</a></td>
      <td><a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#F">F</a></td>
      <td>2015-10-07</td>
      <td>1.1</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

<h3 id="savannah-gnu-org">savannah.gnu.org — A</h3>

<p><a href="//savannah.gnu.org/">savannah.gnu.org</a> has already achieved the
highest grade for ethical hosting; these are the issues that would
need to be addressed for it to earn <a
href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A-plus">extra credit</a>.  If you
would like to volunteer to help make some of these changes, please <a
href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/administration/">join the
Savannah team</a>.
</p>

<ul>
  <li id="savannah-gnu-org-A-plus-1">There are normal Web access/download logs
    which sometimes include IP addresses.
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A-plus-1">A+1</a>)</li>

  <li id="savannah-gnu-org-A-plus-2">It follows EFF's criteria only partially;
    complying with the rest remains in progress.
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A-plus-2">A+2</a>)</li>

  <li id="savannah-gnu-org-A-plus-3">HTML_CodeSniffer reports dozen of errors
    and warnings related to WCAG 2.0 compliance on every page.
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A-plus-3">A+3</a>)</li>

  <li id="savannah-gnu-org-A-plus-4">There is no WAI-ARIA markup in its pages.
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A-plus-4">A+4</a>)</li>

  <li id="savannah-gnu-org-A-plus-5">There is no way of exporting data
    contributed by project owners or contributors.
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A-plus-5">A+5</a>)</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="GitLab">GitLab id="sr-ht">sr.ht — B</h3>

<p>Things that prevent <a href="https://sr.ht/">sr.ht</a> from
moving up to the next grade, <a
href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A">A</a>:</p>

<ul>
  <li id="sr-ht-A4">Allows nonfree licenses and no license.
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A4">A4</a>)</li>
  <li id="sr-ht-A6">Service description mentions:
    “100% free and open source software.”
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A6">A6</a>)</li>
  <li id="sr-ht-A7">Service description mentions:
    “100% free and open source software.”
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A7">A7</a>)</li>
  <li id="sr-ht-A8">Service description mentions:
    “Runs fully virtualised builds on various Linux distros and BSDs.”
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A8">A8</a>)</li>
  <li id="sr-ht-A9">Has no such requirement.
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#A9">A9</a>)</li>
</ul>


<h3 id="notabug-org">notabug.org — C</h3>

<p>Things that prevent <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/">GitLab</a> href="https://notabug.org/">notabug.org</a> from
moving up to the next grade, <a
href="/software/repo-criteria.html#B">B</a>:</p>

<ul>
  <li id="GitLab-B0">All id="notabug-org-B0">All JavaScript code served to the client is free, but
    does not work with LibreJS enabled.
   one script is rejected (<code>js/semantic-2.2.13.min.js</code>).
    It is perhaps a missing or outdated web-label.
    per: https://notabug.org/assets/librejs/librejs.html
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#B0">B0</a>)</li>

  <li id="GitLab-B2">Encourages bad licensing practice, including no
   license; failure
</ul>


<h3 id="gitlab-com">gitlab.com — F</h3>

<p>Things that prevent <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/">gitlab.com</a> from
moving up to state the license on each source file; and failure to
   say which GPL versions apply. next grade, <a
href="/software/repo-criteria.html#C">C</a>:</p>

<ul>
  <li id="gitlab-com-C0">
    Nonfree JavaScript is required for most basic actions, including
    bug filing.  Additionally, a nonfree captcha guards registration.
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#B2">B2</a>)</li> href="/software/repo-criteria.html#C0">C0</a>)</li>
</ul>


<h3 id="GitHub">GitHub id="github-com">github.com — F</h3>

<p>Things that prevent <a href="http://github.com/">GitHub</a> href="http://github.com/">github.com</a> from
moving up to the next grade, <a
href="/software/repo-criteria.html#C">C</a>:</p>

<ul>
  <li id="GitHub-C0"> id="github-com-C0">
    Important site functionality does not work without running nonfree
    JavaScript.
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#C0">C0</a>)
  </li>
</ul>

<p>The worst thing that GitHub github.com does is to encourage bad licensing
practice: failure to include a license, failure to state the
license on each source file, and failure to specify “version 3
or later” when using the GNU GPL.
(<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#B2">B2</a>)</p>

<p>Here are <a href="https://sanctum.geek.nz/why-not-github.html">
additional reasons to avoid GitHub</a>.</p> github.com</a>.</p>


<h3 id="sourceforge-net">sourceforge.net — F</h3>

<p>Things that prevent <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/">sourceforge.net</a>
href="https://sourceforge.net/">sourceforge.net</a> from moving up to the
next grade, <a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#C">C</a>:</p>

<ul>
  <li id="sourceforge-net-C0">
    Important site functionality doesn't work without JavaScript, or with
    LibreJS enabled. (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#C0">C0</a>)
  </li>

  <li id="sourceforge-net-C2">Rejects users from certain countries.
    (<a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#C2">C2</a>)
  </li>
</ul>
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