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Time to walk away and let it burn if that is the case.
Here's an explanation of DoOcracy, as linked from the open letter: https://communitywiki.org/wiki/DoOcracy (If you're like me and hadn't heard of the concept before.)
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A bit of context (why this matters) is useful: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#... > Since Gitea is a pure community organization without any company support, to keep the development healthy we will elect three owners every year. > When the new owners have been elected, the old owners will give up ownership to the newly elected owners According to CONTRIBUTING.md, this dates back to 2016.…
It may be the case that Lunny forgot he has a moral obligation to the Gitea community that elected him year after year. Even though there is no legally binding contract. What was done is morally unacceptable. But that can be easily fixed. Just give it all back!
Drama like this is God's way of teaching hippies why we have contract law.
...domains and trademarks...are one of the most important assets any Free Software project has (if not the most important)... This rubs me the wrong way. Surely the discussion history, documentation, and the freaking code are more important than the name. I generally don't like open source becoming beholden to comercial interests, and I don't know enough about this story to know if that's really what is happening her…
gitea is a brand. whoever owns the domain and trademarks owns the brand.
...domains and trademarks...are one of the most important assets any Free Software project has (if not the most important)... This rubs me the wrong way. Surely the discussion history, documentation, and the freaking code are more important than the name. I generally don't like open source becoming beholden to comercial interests, and I don't know enough about this story to know if that's really what is happening her…
On the other hand... OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice. Clearly the name was immensely valuable in that case.
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I'm also reminded of Audacity, so maybe we'll see a half-way popular fork and then the "parent" amending their ways?
worked for iojs and nodejs
And to an extent Emacs (Xemacs), although the relationship there is more complicated.
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It may be the case that Lunny forgot he has a moral obligation to the Gitea community that elected him year after year. Even though there is no legally binding contract. What was done is morally unacceptable. But that can be easily fixed. Just give it all back!
It could be have been solved even more simply by making it a legal obligation. Drama like this is God's way of teaching hippies why we have contract law.
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I'm also reminded of Audacity, so maybe we'll see a half-way popular fork and then the "parent" amending their ways?
I never saw a follow up to the audacity kerfuffle. Is there any follow ups to whats going on there?
- DarkAudacity, was mostly a fork by Audacity's own lead dev for experimenting on things which might be too disruptive or polarising for the main project, that ended up being largely reincorporated in Audacity
- After acquiring the project, Muse Group drafted a proposal to add invasive telemetry and age restrictions, this led to a few forks and ultimately a reversal of course; soon after the privacy policy changed to add notes about personal data extraction to Russia and the USA, there was more outcry and this was reverted as well
I’ve never participated in an open source community so this is the view of an ignorant third party. Everytime I see anything related to the open source world bubble up into the public I am only reminded of high school and college level social drama. It seems utterly exhausting to be involved
> Everytime I see anything related to the open source world bubble up into the public I am only reminded of high school and college level social drama. This is entirely explained by survivorship bias. The matural social interactions which are the bread and butter of open source never bubble up to your purview because they aren't dramatic and interesting.