Leaving Github

After having an account for nearly a decade and a half, I've finally decided to leave Github. With their move into the AI realm I prefer that my personal work not be included in their learning model by way of their service license.

For the majority of my non pecuniary projects I have typically picked the BSD-3 license. The whole copyleft movement felt weird to me as it seemed like those licenses gave developers all rights except one. I want those using my code to do whatever they want with it, even find a way to make a business around it. The only caveat is you give credit to those whose code you are using.

This conflicts with the way companies like Github use our code to train their AI. My code is not out there running. I cannot say some of what I wrote is being executed in their application. You are not extending my work.

I have now either migrated and archived or deleted my old repos on Github. I debated on burning down my repos to just Readme files with directions to find my new repo but I doubt they truly delete things when you tell them. Maybe I will script that up one day.

So all my code, stuff almost no one but me uses, can be found at

git.sh0.xyz

$ published: 2025-07-13 11:50 $

$ tags: #life, #dev $

-- CC-BY-4.0 jecxjo 2025-07-11

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