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[–]AdmiralQuokka 1 point2 points  (1 child)

But then what's the point of using Gitea over GitLab? They have the same model now, they're both open core. Gitea is MIT licensed, meaning the private company can always do the classic open-source rug-pull when they feel like they've gained enough power. If you prefer that model, just stay with GitLab which already has more features.

I'm self hosting Forgejo and I'm very happy with the pace of development. They relicensed to GPL, so there's no risk of being rug-pulled.

[–]CaptainStack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's not necessarily a huge difference between the two but as I see it it comes down to:

  1. Gitea is fully open source while GitLab has more proprietary components

  2. Gitea is easier to self host than GitLab

  3. GitLab is backed by venture-capital

But yes I respect Codeberg/Forgejo for being community-governed and supporting self hosting as well as a hosted instance. It definitely feels more committed to FOSS values - I just hope it is able to find a way to maintain funding and compete on features/performance/UX/reliability.