Forgejo is changing its license to a Copyleft license. This blog post will try to bring clarity about the impact to you, explain the motivation behind this change and answer some questions you might have.

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Developers who choose to publish their work under a copyleft license are excluded from participating in software that is published under a permissive license. That is at the opposite of the core values of the Forgejo project and in June 2023 it was decided to also accept copylefted contributions. A year later, in August 2024, the first pull request to take advantage of this opportunity was proposed and merged.

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Forgejo versions starting from v9.0 are now released under the GPL v3+ and earlier Forgejo versions, including v8.0 and v7.0 patch releases remain under the MIT license.

  • iopq@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    But then I’d have to take out loans to pay my taxes which is absurd. I’ll have to pay taxes on money that I don’t physically have

    • chebra@mstdn.io
      1·
      3 months ago

      @iopq You asked about rent, not taxes. They actually avoid taxes in this way. And yes, using money they don’t physically have is exactly the source of all financial bubbles.

      • iopq@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I’m saying you can’t pay with paper money, you must pay with real money for everything.

        I’m not against considering loans against unrealized assets as realization (with stepped up basis) since the person taking out said loan can use it to pay said tax.

        • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          3 months ago

          People do this exact thing all the time. Taking on debts to keep cashflow or avoid taxes is normal.

          If you are just sitting on unproductive assets instead of realising their value in some way, you are doing the wrong thing.

          You should be able to gain revenue from the asset or it wouldn’t have appreciating value.

          All your comments don’t make sense, it’s like you just want to take from the economy without giving anything back.

          • iopq@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            Let’s say I give $100,000 to a friend that starts a start-up. You claim after some years that investment is worth $1,000,000 and want me to pay $150,000 tax

            I take out a loan for $150,000 because the startup didn’t make any profit. The startup goes bust. I now have a $100,000 loss and I paid $150,000 in taxes. Thankfully I can write $3000 off on my taxes every year until I die!

            • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.netEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              If the startup made no profit it would never be worth 1000000. You would only have a capital gain if value was realizable.

              If you never made a dime from your initial 100000 investment you would sell off the asset at that point instead of paying taxes.

              If you were too dumb to sell parts of your assets, and instead chose to be cash negative or fail to pay your taxes, you kind of deserve to lose everything because you were too stubborn to receive advice from anybody.

              • iopq@lemmy.world
                1·
                3 months ago

                Amazon had its first profitable year in 2003. It was worth 21 billion dollars.

                • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  Yes, but how much cashflow did it have, and how much in dividends did the individual stakeholders receive.

                  It never didn’t pay it’s taxes afaik

                  Edit: I’m fact checking myself, Amazon’s strategy is reinvesting all profits to support further growth. They were never in a position like the other poster is describing.

                  • iopq@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    3 months ago

                    There were companies that didn’t survive the dot com crash despite being worth billions. Amazon is a company you would recognize, even though a better company is pets.com

                    If you bought their stock you would be very rich for a very short while until it went bankrupt

                  • iopq@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    3 months ago

                    Did I say zero revenue? I said didn’t make a profit. Lots of companies made money, but couldn’t make more money than they spent. You can easily have an investment that is valued high that you can’t cash out

                    Let’s say you bought some stock now, at the end of the year it’s worth $1,000,000 and you get charged $150,000 in April. Big problem, the brokerages stopped allowing you to sell the stock and it crashed down, so now your GameStop stock is worth $100,000

                    How do you pay?

          • iopq@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            I forgot the most obvious example:

            If you bought a house for $200,000 and when you retire it’s worth $1,000,000 the government shouldn’t demand you pay a percentage of your “gain” for the rest of your life or until you are forced to sell it.

              • iopq@lemmy.world
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                2 months ago

                You are saying you want to tax retired people with no income just because they have a place to live in. Should we kick them out for nonpayment of said taxes too? Because that’s what would happen. It happens in states with property taxes, but now you want to take it national.

                This is the problem with leftists. This message would be an extremely bad electoral platform.

                • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  Zero cashflow retirees are not a thing.

                  ALL states have property tax.

                  You don’t know what you are talking about if you don’t understand how taxes are offset and credited. You are just whining about not wanting to participate in society.

                  Taxes pay for things, go get educated.

                  • iopq@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    2 months ago

                    They have social security and some of them have savings. My mom is planning to retire in West Virginia and she’s already planning on selling her current residence to build a house there. She chose a low property tax state on purpose.

                    At this point she would only receive social security and start to go through her savings to live. You want to start charging her federal taxes the moment her property is worth $1 more than what she bought it for, even though she’s on fixed income.