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@feddit.ukEnglish
    14·
    3 months 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.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    3 months 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@beehaw.org
      1·
      3 months ago

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

        • Quik@infosec.pub
          2·
          2 months 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