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by gargron 1336 days ago
It is self-hosted because you can host it yourself.
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preseinger 1336 days ago
Well, all software on GitHub, more or less, satisfies this definition, so I don't think it's what was meant.
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Nemo_bis 1332 days ago
Not "all software on GitHub" because most of that is proprietary. To run it yourself it generally needs to be [free software](https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/).
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preseinger 1331 days ago
What on earth? This is absolutely false.

The dominant licenses on GitHub are Apache and MIT. Neither of those licenses designate proprietary software. Both allow me (as an individual) to run software myself.

In fact, the licenses which satisfy "free software" criteria -- GPL etc. -- are more or less impossible to use in any context where legal jurisprudence would apply. That means any context where a lawyer could possibly get involved.

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