GitLab cares as much about people impersonating an open source project or organization as GoDaddy. By that, I mean they don't care at all and won't do anything unless ordered to do so by a court. Pretty sad how much better LinkedIn and GitHub have been about dealing with this.
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Have you considered your own Gitlab or Gitea instance? Would it be beneficial from branding or legal perspectives? There are reasons for FOSS projects to avoid both Github (Microsoft) or Gitlab's primary instance:
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And the @github acquisition (potential) explains why we self-host all sourcecode at @videolan with git or with our @gitlab instance.
@Microsoft has been a great citizen for open source lately, but it shows you can never know what will happen with a non-open-source SaaS.
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We're not actually using GitLab but rather trying to deal with someone misrepresenting themselves as us on the platform. It wouldn't help us to have our own instance of a code hosting platform. The canonical copy of the code with historical branches / tags is local anyway.
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