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.

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.

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.

  • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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    21 days ago

    I thought this was going to be fun satire.

    You don’t really know how anything works if you think all this.

    • LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works
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      21 days ago

      How do things work? I provided my perspective, partly so that I could refer to it later, so it would be enlightening to learn about yours.

      • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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        21 days ago

        Nah

        Question is, do you know how much the tax revenue is in your area

        Is that tax revenue transaction based or wealth based

        Would taxing in your paradigm be reasonable or sustainable in the context of the government expenditures in your area?