I look forward to a new name. Gitea always sounded awful.

I've been following the story all morning and only now just realized it's tea like the beverage.

As a non-native English speaker, I never know how to pronounce it. I know it's supposed to be git-tea but in my head it's more git-eh-ah.

As a native English speaker I'm just now realizing the same.

I'm a native English speaker and luckily I've never found the need to pronounce gitea. In my head, it'll randomly either be "git-tea" or "git-e-ah".

Do they have pronunciation guide? Thought it's just gi-tea

They do, it's the first question in the FAQ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM71-2uDAoY

Why? It stays open source, not open core, and they will provide consulting and bespoke changes for paying customers.

> Gitea Ltd. will be open to building special versions for special clients and will contribute any features back to the main repository when possible

This gives no guarantee that everything in these "special versions" is contributed back. Might as well just say "Open Core". If that's not the case then this needs additional clarification.

I didn't read this as open core.

The previous point from the quote was that the project remains MIT. The following point was that contracts favorable to those conditions would also be preferred and recommended.

At sounds like some contracts might need bespoke functionality to me.

The previous blog post is more explicit and reads Open Core:

> An enhanced enterprise version

But that's a general problem with these two blog posts. They leave much to interpretation. Except for one thing: Gitea Ltd is in control of the domains & the trademark and won't give them back. The days of a community led project are gone. Just like that.

It will be a pleasure to welcome you in the upcoming fork. Wouldn't you like to participate in a democratic Free Software project instead of working for free and help VC make tons of money?

Except the community never really owned them, it was only Lunny who did. He could have at any point used his ownership of these things against the community. The situation hasn't changed much in that regard except that I guess everyone trusts Lunny the person more than this ltd he's created.