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.

  • wewbullEnglish
    300·
    2 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.

    • Lem453
      10·
      2 months ago

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

      • CrossbarSwitch
        30·
        2 months ago

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

  • smegEnglish
    200·
    2 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
      60·
      2 months ago

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

      • 🐠 tiago🍍
        10·
        2 months ago

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

        • Quik
          10·
          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

  • Hirom
    140·
    2 months ago2 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.