[rapnie]

> the fact is that the work is done by few, and those few have decided to exercise their rights in open source to do what is their prerogative.

There's a whole bunch of contributors to this project, who've never been informed. Even maintainers were caught by surprise as only some marginal bits of info were apparently spread.

A project creating CONTRIBUTING guidelines, then Owners not honoring them? Effectively just pretending to be a community-driven project. Probably legally the ones incorporating have done nothing wrong. And culture, norms don't count in business world. But they do in free software community.

Yes, a fork may be in order. But technically this could still be mended and things be put right.

[kdumont]

What contributing guidelines were not honored?

[nybble41]

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#...

The current holder of the domains and trademarks was elected as the custodian for a limited time (through the end of 2022). The terms of that election included an agreement to hand over custody to their eventual elected successor. But they've instead created this for-profit company and transferred it ownership of the assets.

What happens when a new custodian is elected by the community who is not affiliated with this new company? Will the company give up control of the assets as previously agreed?