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by jkarni 1351 days ago
I do care. I also was born in a developing country. (Though the correlation between development of country and proportion of green/renewable energy usage is I think quite low (and might not even be positive?) [0].)

I think access to software and services shouldn't be be based on the country you happen to live in, and I wouldn't want to contribute to that. But I would have thought either using a hosted service, or else self-hosting in a different country, are almost always options. Why is hosting CI on the other side of the planet for you a no-go?

(Also, I think right now a license that simply says "must be run with renewable energy" is infeasible almost everywhere still.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable...

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what about "you may run this locally on your, or your organization's servers, but you cannot offer it as a free or paid service?"
That makes sense!
Except that it isn’t then free software. Nix and its ecosystem is all free software, and it seems incongruous for people to build nonfree tools on top of and around it.