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.

  • @Comexs@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6•4 months ago

    Ever since I read this Article I have been wanting to delete my GitHub account and migrate over to another platform. I would give a summary but I’m incapable of doing so.

    If this info is outdated or misinformation then please let me know.

    • @ulternoEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      So the OSS projects that have been closed due to Cease and Desist notices are actually still viewable !?

      • JohnEdwa
        3•4 months ago

        The entire network is nuked in those situations, there are no accessible forks left.

        • @ulternoEnglish
          0•4 months ago

          Well, I got to dream for a bit…