Month: May 2015

BRCK in Violation of the GPL

Update (2015-05-19): BRCK has responded and put up an open-source compliance page on their website. During a recent meeting of the Nairobi GNU/Linux Users Group we discussed BRCK, the Kenya-based makers of a slick, “rugged”, battery-powered-GSM-router thing of the same name, and their apparent violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The lively discussion […]

Simultaneously Pushing to Two Remotes in a Git Repository

Sometimes you need to push commits to two remotes in a git repository—either for a cheap “backup” of sorts, or for some public / private repository scheme you may have in your organization, etc. Let’s say you have a repository hosted on GitHub and BitBucket (hey, GitHub is king today, but you never know!). You […]