A few thoughts

Thanks for the comments everyone.

First let me be clear, we aren't intending to criticize Fedora/Redhat in any way. We are trying to make sense of the options presented to us and pick the one that seems to fit best. What Redhat has done with Fedora hosted is generous and we appreciate the offer to host our code there.

Where FOSSLC (and now this new software, Freeseer) should be on the spectrum of software freedom has been something we've been coming to grips with for some time. I've written about this issue before. Despite the challenges, in under 1 year, we have developed a video capture solution (freeseer of course) that does what we need to do in term of capturing great presentations and demos. Recently, in response to feedback and push from people involved with Fedora, we have moved to adopt some new technologies (gstreamer for instance) that lets us support 100% free software and unencumbered codecs. We're still tuning this to perfect it, but it's there, and it works well.

The issue with the contribution agreement relates to the heart of the principles we're trying to live up to. In fairness to Redhat, we have not approached them to see if we can negotiate the agreement or substitute it with another. I have no reason to think they wouldn't be quite reasonable... they have been nothing but supportive and engaged us in good faith thus far. However, getting the lawyers involved takes time and expense so we decided to try and make this a binary choice for now.

The beauty of git, and open source code in general, is that we could decide to stay with github for now and move to another facility in the future. I see the numbers too... 8-0 is a strong message thus far. Thank you very much for the input.