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- opensource@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1019007
Forgejo is changing its license to a Copyleft license. This blog post will try to bring clarity about the impact to you, explain the motivation behind this change and answer some questions you might have.
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Developers who choose to publish their work under a copyleft license are excluded from participating in software that is published under a permissive license. That is at the opposite of the core values of the Forgejo project and in June 2023 it was decided to also accept copylefted contributions. A year later, in August 2024, the first pull request to take advantage of this opportunity was proposed and merged.
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Forgejo versions starting from v9.0 are now released under the GPL v3+ and earlier Forgejo versions, including v8.0 and v7.0 patch releases remain under the MIT license.
- wewbull ( @wewbull@feddit.uk ) English30•25 days ago
I have a lot of respect for this project. I lurk on the discussion forum and issues and I’ve always seen mature discussion even though the project was born out of issues which could have been quite emotive.
It’s also a lot nicer to run than any other git forge that I’ve had experience with.
- Lem453 ( @Lem453@lemmy.ca ) 1•25 days ago
Is it still a drop in replacement for gitea, I’ve been meaning to switch
- CrossbarSwitch ( @CrossbarSwitch@lemm.ee ) 3•25 days ago
I switched last week and changing the image from gitea to forgjo just worked.
- smeg ( @smeg@feddit.uk ) English20•26 days ago
Given that I recently read the intro on Codeberg (which I think is the main public Forgejo instance) and it was very pro-copyleft, I’m surprised this wasn’t already the case! Good news, though.
- jarfil ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 6•25 days ago
The problem is that some people are “so copyleft”… that they fall into the MIT honeytrap.
- 🐠 tiago🍍 ( @tiago@beehaw.org ) 1•22 days ago
I don’t quite understand what you meant. Can you expand?
- Quik ( @Quik@infosec.pub ) 1•9 days ago
“it’s called free software, but copyleft licenses restrict what you can do with it, therefore it’s unfree!!1!” or so they say
- Hirom ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) 14•26 days ago
Nice.
Does Forgejo support Git? I’m not familiar with Forgejo, and it’s not obvious in this announcement or their homepage.Forgejo does support Git, I didn’t read carefully enough.
- mariusafa ( @mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•25 days ago
Nice!