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> I think it was that an American company took it over,

No, Gitea Ltd is a new _Hong Kong_ for-profit company. No American companies are involved in any of this whatsoever.

The Gitea head honcho claims to be in Shanghai, China: https://gitea.com/lunny

> not that a company took it over.

No, the Forgejo folks were angry that the previously community-run project was taken into ownership of a for-profit company, without any notice, and against previous promises: https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social

> They didn't AGPL forego

Uh, they CAN'T relicense it to AGPL or anything else. The Gitea authors and contributors still hold the copyright on the code, which is MIT-licensed.

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