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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Is there some drama I'm not aware of here?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Forgejo is a reactionary fork of Gitea, started because the creator of Gitea founded a company to maintain it.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Secretly behind the backs of the official community council and not many months later started to turn Gitea into an open-core product.

And they also demand a CLA from contributors now, which is directly against the idea of FOSS.

I was a bit sceptical about the justification of this fork in the beginning as well, but time has proven the Forgejo team to be sadly completely right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

CLAs can be abusive, but not necessarily. Apache Foundation contributors need to sign CLAs, which essentially codify in contract form the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. It's a precaution, in case some jurisdiction doesn't uphold the passive licensing scheme used otherwise. There's also a relicensing clause, but that's restricted to keeping in spirit, they can't close the source.

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