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Loïc Dachary
Lunny was the legitimate owner of the trademark and the domain because he was elected by the community. Under the promise to transfer ownership to future elected owners. Gitea Ltd has not been elected by community members and yet, it now owns both. As a consequence, the domains and trademark are no longer under the governance of the Gitea community. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#owners 5 comments
Loïc Dachary
This is literally what the Gitea documentation reads: > When the new owners have been elected, the old owners will give up ownership to the newly elected owners. It does not say "except for the domain and the trademark" which are two very significant assets (if not the most significant) a Free Software project owns. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#owners
Gitea
@Bobo_PK @dachary @forgefriends lots of notifications today, and this response was missed. thanks for the ping Bobo_PK. The reference in the document is about the project itself, not anyone's personal assets. 
Sven Slootweg
@gitea @dachary@mastodon.online This sure is starting to sound an awful lot like the arguments Andrew Lee made in his hostile takeover of Freenode. |
Gregory's Server
@dachary @forgefriends Again, false. The trademark and domains have never been owned by the project. He has never promised to transfer them to any future owners.