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Forgejo is now copyleft, just like Git (forgejo.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nice!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it still a drop in replacement for gitea, I've been meaning to switch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I switched last week and changing the image from gitea to forgjo just worked.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that some people are "so copyleft"... that they fall into the MIT honeytrap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't quite understand what you meant. Can you expand?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.