Code on GitHub? What happened to open source?

Is this an EFF sponsored project? I am rather surprised to see the code hosted on a closed and proprietary platform.

Certbot is a project of the EFF

LetsEncrypt is a project of the ISRG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Security_Research_Group)

Both use Github. All the licenses are open source. Here are some samples.

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Why would it surprise you that the code is hosted on the largest repository on the planet for F/OSS projects? And if you're operating on the... curious... belief that a F/OSS project must use F/OSS software for everything associated with the project, where does it stop? Can they only work on F/OSS OSs? So nobody can work on this using Windows or macOS? Must they use F/OSS text editors? What about the hardware? None of the systems being used by anyone involved in this are Open Hardware--is that a problem too?

Where does the ideological purity test stop?

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