TLDR; some trademark shenanigans by a for profit company that now owned gitea. From then on, their for-profit agenda have made gitea into a gitlab-like "open-core" thingy instead of the open source mission that they should've had since the start.
Honestly, they should've relicensed the whole project as AGPLv3 (or something similar) to avoid anymore closed sourced troubles that might happen in the future.
@Ninmi @Wuzzy this happened
https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/
TLDR; some trademark shenanigans by a for profit company that now owned gitea. From then on, their for-profit agenda have made gitea into a gitlab-like "open-core" thingy instead of the open source mission that they should've had since the start.
Honestly, they should've relicensed the whole project as AGPLv3 (or something similar) to avoid anymore closed sourced troubles that might happen in the future.