Comment by mardifoufs

How exactly does that apply? What's the "corporate welfare" here? Almost nobody is profiting off Gitea, especially not big tech. I know using the big tech boogeyman is useful to justify open source projects rugpulling on their licenses, but it doesn't even apply here. Not that it usually makes sense[0], but in this case it's not even something that the maintainers themselves ever alluded to.

[0] projects like MongoDB, ElasticSearch or Redis only became popular because they were OSS, and probably limited competition for years simply because competing with free is hard. only to then switch on their users years further down the line. So any money that they ever got was due to them being OSS in the first place since absolutely nobody would've used MongoDB 1.0 if it was a commercial product.