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by anon3_ 4017 days ago
In my opinion, this isn't a fork, but a naked hijacking:

- No really consensus / official decision on the issue

- http://gitea.io/

- "Git with a cup of tea,"

When it's done so fast, it feels like a coup.

I understand the right to fork a project, but for a maintainer to be AFK from issues for a few weeks to necessitate a fork is harsh.
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invaliduser 4017 days ago
There is nothing harsh about forking a project. This is exactly the intent of the original license choosen explicitly by the author(s).

Have you read the licence ?

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions

If the author did not want any fork, they would have chosen another one. period.

People should learn about open source before starting bitching and whining about "hijacking". Hijacking, really ? That's not even possible with opensource: forking, sharing, modifying, that's _exactly_ the open source spirit and it's actually backed by the license.

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dilipray 4017 days ago
Exactly, He didn't even give the other guy credits on his work.
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MaulingMonkey 4017 days ago
In the description: "forked from Gogs"

Readme.md's Acknowledgments and Contributors sections appear to still be in place, with the credit-improving (IMO) change of replacing the link text "core team" to "gogs team".

What else would you expect? The github forked-from notice if you use the github button instead of git to fork, I guess? Anything else?

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tboerger 4017 days ago
Why? There is still the version history and the admins of the organizations are the top contributors beside of Unknwon ;). I just started to contribute smaller pieces...
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anon3_ 4017 days ago
Why the wink?

I'm trying to figure out if your devoid of the nuance of open source politics, or if you're a huge risk taker.

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garthk 4017 days ago
Now it's serving or proxying gogs.io.
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