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.

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[–] bane_killgrind 2 points 2 months ago (30 children)

The top 10% as a whole pays 71.22%, while the bottom 50% of taxpayers account for only 2.89% of all income taxes.

This is misinformation, because it paints a picture of the rich being hard done by.

The bottom 50% pays an actual tax rate that is a higher percentage of their earnings than the top 50%. The richer you are, the more opportunity you have to reduce your tax burden. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-much-poor-actually-pay-taxes-probably-think

Your own numbers are an indicator of massive income disparity.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (27 children)

It's not actually higher:

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-income-tax-data-2024/

Top 1% pay 25.9% of their income to taxes, bottom 50% pay 3.3%

[–] bane_killgrind 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (26 children)

That doesn't take into account non federal tax.

https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2024/

This says it more explicitly.

using a more realistic definition of income that includes unrealized capital gains, they found that the same 25 Americans paid just 3.4 percent of their income in taxes during that period. If unrealized capital gains were included in these estimates, ITEP, too, would calculate a much lower effective tax rate for the rich

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also, reported income is not the same for regular people and the top 1%. Tax evasion techniques makes it seem as if they have way less income than they really have.

EDIT: I do realize some of this could be incorporated into the statement of your quote above.

[–] bane_killgrind 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah dude it's all a game :/

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