I mean sadly even though I hate the bans the exclusion is really insignificant in the grand scheme of things and the benefits Github brings most of the considered acceptable for the tradeoff. I am sadly one of those people I am fairly young (25) and my introduction to git happened with Github so I am really used to it. Though I am also developing a codeforge as an hobby project and maybe something serious in the long term.

There is also another crowd that completely aligns with the US foreign policy and also has the same animosity towards those countrie's citizens (I 've seen considerable amount of examples of these).

For the license part I really don't get the argument how can a coreutils rewrite can get rugpulled this is not a hosted service where minio [1] [2] like situation can happen and there is always the original utils if something like that were to happen.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665452 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136108