Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge

Re:Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge by jcarrano on Sunday January 19, 2025 @09:13AM (#42757142)

Copyleft licenses are supposed to prevent to an extent this sort of free riding, but they are no longer "fashionable".

I don't see the point of refusing to add additional (copyleft) terms to a license, only to end up hoping companies act as if the terms existed out of good will.

Companies like Google love the permissive licenses, and go as far as to sponsor MIT/BSD-licensed replacements to common building blocks like toybox.

EDIT: I see that Forgejo v9+ is indeed GPL-licensed.

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Re:Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge by KingMob on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:03AM (#42758186)

I agree that copyleft is less fashionable these days, but I think big companies have figured out all the tricks they need.

Case in point: Amazon offers a hosted Grafana service, which is AGPL. They may not be able to meaningfully change the code in secret, but they can still impoverish the actual Grafana creators trying to sell Grafana as a service.

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Re:Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge by kstrauser on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:02PM (#42759559)

I released a tiny toy fun project under the GPL. It’s the kind of thing that no one could possible want to monetize, but the first PR was someone pleading the case that I should relicense to something more friendly, like MIT. I’d never before been so instantly tempted to ban someone from a project.

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