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		davexunit on Aug 21, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCC is moving to git They haven't, and they shouldn't want to. Relying upon GitHub, a centralized, proprietary service, would be working against the mission of GNU.

iwwr on Aug 21, 2015 [–]

It's more the fact that Github keeps their own code (server and client) as proprietary and so the service is not a free software offering.

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