Codeberg launches Forgejo – Gitea fork
Background story seems to be that a portion of Gitea maintainers formed a for-profit company, and transferred all the trademarks to it, going against former promises made, and blowing up their own community as a consequence. They go over the now-traditional &quot;companies are using our free software without paying us&quot; discourse here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gitea.io&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;open-source-sustainment-and-the-future-of-gitea&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gitea.io&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;open-source-sustainment-and-th...</a><p>&gt; we’re planning on establishing a fund to be able to provide support to contributors who not only contribute features, but also bug fixes, performance enhancements, and important refactors.<p>Sounds like any other for-profit company building commercial software. What stopped them from doing that while keeping the original OSS software copyrights intact?<p>Also curious to see their plan to pay out all the developers working on the OSS that underpins Gitea itself. The list is pretty long.