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> I think it was that an American company took it over,

No, Gitea Ltd is a new _Hong Kong_ for-profit company. No American companies are involved in any of this whatsoever.

The Gitea head honcho claims to be in Shanghai, China: https://gitea.com/lunny

> not that a company took it over.

No, the Forgejo folks were angry that the previously community-run project was taken into ownership of a for-profit company, without any notice, and against previous promises: https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social

> They didn't AGPL forego

Uh, they CAN'T relicense it to AGPL or anything else. The Gitea authors and contributors still hold the copyright on the code, which is MIT-licensed.




Forgejo did relicense, there was a democratic vote and the it was agreed to finally relicense to a license that respects user's freedoms


Very cool if true, but it appears they haven't done it yet: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/LICE...

Could someone post a link to the decision?


https://codeberg.org/forgejo/meta/issues/183

I think, this seems to be the discussion everyone is talking about


You can license your fork under a different compatible license (which is most other licenses, in the case of MIT). They can't prevent people from using the versions that were already released under MIT though (and continue being released under MIT by Gitea).




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