The issue with deviating from the upstream license is that only the code author can upstream a patch, since GPLv3 cannot be changed by a non-author of the code to MIT. Resulting in less being patched upstream, and so more merge conflicts, the maintenance burden I was talking about.
> Forgejo is more busy managing ideals, than creating software.
But managing ideals is far more important than creating software. Software is just a tool. It's a mean to an end, it's not the end in itself.
If software improves humanity we should create it. If not, we shouldn't. We shouldn't create software just because. We can, but that's not ethical.
And regarding your comments that "the original contributors stayed with Gitea", as if that's a point in favor of Gitea: Well of course! If the original contributors wanted copyleft that's how they would've licensed it. To me that just reinforces that I don't want to contribute to their project.
The misquotation was an accident but the point is the same. If the set of people who wanted to contribute to Free software split with from those who wanted to work for companies for free, that's an improvement.
The issue with deviating from the upstream license is that only the code author can upstream a patch, since GPLv3 cannot be changed by a non-author of the code to MIT. Resulting in less being patched upstream, and so more merge conflicts, the maintenance burden I was talking about.