Gitea is FOSS under the MIT license. Is the title just phrased oddly? They do offer hosting for profit but I thought the software met the definition of FOSS.
Gitea is under the MIT license, so FOSS, but the For-Profit managing it could at any point switch the license going forward. For example to lock Features for Self-Hosters behind a Paywall like Gitlab does
Theoretically yes, in practice a project gains reputation and it’s managers gain skills and experience, so i fork isn’t always migrated to easily and it might be harder to keep it going, look at reddit , having the source code didn’t really help and despite lemmy being in development for years the reddit ecosystem (RES in particular) still has advantages that are important at least to me.
No i am using lemmy.ml, there are still a few things that are better for power users, for example there is no support for multireddits despite it being the issue with the most “thumbs up” on the lemmy bug tracker, RES ability to not show comments that are “read” really helps with deep diving on a certain topic.
I use Gitea myself and when the big dust up about the backing company came up, I didn’t feel like there was a big enough reason to migrate away from Gitea. Just because they could do something wasn’t enough of a reason for me. Sure it’s great that they are running a fork that I could switch to but I currently don’t see a reason to switch as of today.
Gitea is FOSS under the MIT license. Is the title just phrased oddly? They do offer hosting for profit but I thought the software met the definition of FOSS.
Gitea is under the MIT license, so FOSS, but the For-Profit managing it could at any point switch the license going forward. For example to lock Features for Self-Hosters behind a Paywall like Gitlab does
That’s the same with any copyleft project though. and we could just fork it if that happened
MIT isn’t copyleft
Depends, if they take outside contributions and do not insist on a CLA then copyleft projects can’t be easily relicensed.
Theoretically yes, in practice a project gains reputation and it’s managers gain skills and experience, so i fork isn’t always migrated to easily and it might be harder to keep it going, look at reddit , having the source code didn’t really help and despite lemmy being in development for years the reddit ecosystem (RES in particular) still has advantages that are important at least to me.
Really? Lemmy seems wayy better than reddit. Maybe you just have a shitty instance?
No i am using lemmy.ml, there are still a few things that are better for power users, for example there is no support for multireddits despite it being the issue with the most “thumbs up” on the lemmy bug tracker, RES ability to not show comments that are “read” really helps with deep diving on a certain topic.
Lemmy.ml is a pretty shitty instance. Find one with less users.
I use Gitea myself and when the big dust up about the backing company came up, I didn’t feel like there was a big enough reason to migrate away from Gitea. Just because they could do something wasn’t enough of a reason for me. Sure it’s great that they are running a fork that I could switch to but I currently don’t see a reason to switch as of today.