Forgejo changes license to GPLv3+


The 
<a href="https://forgejo.org/" rel="nofollow">
Forgejo</a> project has https://forgejo.org/2024-08-gpl/
 that, starting from version 9.0, Forgejo will be released under the GPLv3 license (or a later version). Older versions of the software forge remain MIT-licensed.



A copyleft license makes reusing other copyleft software easier. Recently, we discovered that 
<a href="https://forgejo.org/2024-07-non-free-dependency-found/" rel="nofollow">
some of the dependencies we used were incompatible with the license Forgejo was distributed with</a>, and they had to be removed for now. Choosing copyleft licenses enables us to reuse more work, and saves us precious time to focus on improving Forgejo itself.


https://lwn.net/Articles/986998/