[tgmatt]

This is nice in theory, but what happens when a community member wants to implement SAML for the community edition, or other premium features?

[mappu]

The SAML support in https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/29403 seems like it will get merged once the MR is a little bit higher quality.

EDIT (bit better source):

> Gitea Enterprise is an offering of CommitGo, not the Technical Oversight Committee of Gitea or the Gitea project itself. CommitGo remains committed to contributing back functionality to Gitea under the MIT license.

Via https://blog.gitea.com/gitea-enterprise/#faq

[techknowlogick]

Yup, this is the case. I'm the main author on that PR. It sadly stalled due to reviews from other maintainers requiring it to be rewritten using another library, but hopefully I'll be able to get back to it, or someone else will be able to pick it up. We've been able to get other functionality into Gitea already, and I've personally funded maintainers and others' work for the project, which goes directly into the project itself.

[techknowlogick]

I'm the main author of the PR to implement SAML in Gitea, and it sadly has stalled due to reviews from maintainers requiring it to be rewritten entirely using another library. Our governance charter requires a certain process for PRs going into Gitea, and cannot be side-stepped by anyone. As for some of the others, we've been able to merge them in already.

[tgmatt]

SAML was just an example - I didn't see the PR before I made that post. That said, it feels fundamentally incompatible to a business strategy where your community edition is able to offer all of the features of the premium offering. I just can't see how that business would be able to survive if they allow that to happen.

I'm always dubious of freemium software, because the free version is always gimped in some way, be it SSO compatibility (OK, yours supports OIDC it seems so that's not _terrible_), role-based access controls, high availability, etc.

I will concede that businesses probably _should_ be paying for good software that is critical to their business to help support the vendors, but given how important cost savings are to companies these days, one can hardly blame engineers looking for cheaper offerings.

[gchamonlive]

Is MIT license and SSO features mutually exclusive? Or is it just a business model to sweep such features under a paid subscription?

[techknowlogick]

I'm not sure what you mean, as Gitea has SSO using many different ways, such as LDAP, OAuth2/OIDC, OpenID, SMTP, and more.

[tough]

has nothing to do with licensing and ´everything to do with business model