I don't think this is a question of blame, rather than suitability. In the spirit of blameless postmortem, I'll state that GitHub was found unsuitable for hosting a FOSS project.
Why it's unsuitable is truly a secondary question, but it shouldn't prevent us, Free Software maintainers, from drawing necessary conclusions.
"I was just following orders" is an invalid defense.
Considering how the government of "the shining beacon of democracy" is currently running more like one of the above countries, I think it's a good comparison. But I'm guessing plenty here MAGA disagree.
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What is ‘Codeberg e.V.’?
Codeberg is a non-profit association registered in Berlin, Germany. The abbreviation e.V. stands for eingetragener Verein, which translates as ‘registered association’.
As defined by its Bylaws, its goal is to “guarantee the openness and continued availability of free software”.
Forgejo has to abide by Codeberg’s goals. We believe that this arrangement reinforces the longevity of Forgejo, as far as the project’s stability and financial security is concerned.
Codeberg e.V. owns Forgejo’s domains, provides resources and cooperates closely with Forgejo.
https://codeberg.org/organicmaps/organicmaps
However, as you can see, this is only a mirror of the official, original repository, which is hosted here:
https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps
And while this is using ForgeJo - the software Codeberg develops - it is hosted by OrganicMaps themselves. Thereby, it is very unlikely that somebody else takes this down for whatever reason.
They only want to protect MS in this case, I guess to increase their chance to resolve it positively.
But I just recently thought about this. If you develop exploits for say NSO und a journalist gets tortured to death. Should you be put on trial? I'm not sure why not tbh.
Maybe not but the vibe feels more like open source being gunpoint.
"Upload documents or else"
Nothing you put there sounds like a reason not to move, in fact it sounds like all the more reason to do it.
ANY and I mean absolutely ANY service can just block you if they think you're violating ToS, including Google/Android and Apple.
It's just time to leave Microsoft. Don't make excuses for rich corporations.
That absolutely does not sound reasonable to everyone else.
Ah, a chief among the causes of brain drain.
It's good that Organic Maps is leaving Microsoft behind.