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Open Letter to Gitea

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In reaction to the surprise announcement of the creation of Gitea Ltd and the transfer of domains and trademark to this company, worried members of the Community have written an Open Letter to the elected Owners of the project.

The request is to return the assets and manage them by a community-led non-profit organization and furthermore improve the community organization, so that the Trust and Health of the project is restored.

The Open Letter can be signed by sending a PR to the Codeberg repository.

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  • Hmm, well I agree that a non-profit would have been the better move, but ultimately the trademarks and domain doesn't mean that much. The code is open and it can be forked and renamed.

    What really matters are the main contributors (See OpenOffice -> Libreoffice move) and I am not sure what their stance on it is. But I suspect they might have been the driving force for creating the for-profit company?

    • Yeah that might be a next step, though a fork needs dedicated people who want to commit to it. There's a risk, and the split that happens in the early stages in the community is not nice either. Btw, there's an interesting HN discussion going on about the letter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33372471

      • What I mean is: if the core contributors are not behind the fork, it is pretty pointless to fork. Gitea is already a Gogs fork, where the more active contributors felt like the original creator was holding the project back.

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