Repository Ethics

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GNU and the FSF developed the Ethical Repository Criteria to judge services for hosting parts of the GNU operating system, but we recommend them to everyone that wants to use a service for publicly hosting free source code (and optionally executable programs too). The criteria emphasize protection of privacy, functionality without nonfree JavaScript, compatibility with copyleft licensing and philosophy, and not rejecting any users.

GNU also maintains evaluations of code-hosting sites by the standards of these criteria. If you'd like to help us evaluate more sites or update existing evaluations as sites improve (or worsen) their scores, join the repo-criteria-discuss mailing list.

List of services that have been suggested for evaluation

This is a public list -- please feel free to add suggestions. Use the discussion list for commentary on list items.


  • pagure.io. They expressed interest in being evaluated on this ticket public: https://pagure.io/pagure/issue/976.
  • java-gaming.org. Suggested by Richard Stallman.
  • GitCafe. Suggested by Richard Stallman. He knows a founder of the service.
  • Launchpad
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