In an open letter published Wednesday on GitHub, software developers representing the open source community joined the call for GitHub to immediately cancel the $200,000 contract with ICE. Although much of the code stored on GitHub is open source, the rest of it is often stored privately or available only for a licensing fee. GitHub pays careful attention to its open source contributors, said Don Goodman-Wilson, who worked as a developer advocate at the company. “We have teams that work specifically on features for open source developers. GitHub staffers have been agitating internally and publicly since the company renewed its contract with ICE in September.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 04, 2019 15:45 UTC