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How is that a problem? Do you donate or significantly contribute in any other way to Gitea? I don't think so.

Those guys for years and years have been developing a free tool getting almost nothing back in return. Morally there is nothing wrong about this.

And if you think you can do better for free and keep everything open source, you can always contribute to the fork and keep enjoying it.

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Clarity and honesty around future plans and incentives are important to those who put the little political capital they have behind adopting projects like this.

Who knows if Forgejo can pull off the technical side, which I do plan to contribute to, but at least they have clear principles.

> which I do plan to contribute to

Let’s change that to

> which I also neglect contributing to

Not a dig against you personally, it’s just a sentiment that many adopt both personally and commercially (which is the more important of the two - given money is involved).

Publicly traded company I work at couldn’t do anything were it not for open source. Do we for pay a cent for open source? No.

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