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# About
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Woodpecker has been originally forked from Drone 0.8 as the Drone CI license was changed after the 0.8 release from Apache 2.0 to a proprietary license. Woodpecker is based on this latest freely available version.
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## History
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Woodpecker was originally forked by [@laszlocph](https://github.com/laszlocph) in 2019.
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A few important time points:
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- [`2fbaa56`](https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/commit/2fbaa56eee0f4be7a3ca4be03dbd00c1bf5d1274) is the first commit of the fork, made on Apr 3, 2019.
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- The first release [v0.8.91](https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v0.8.91) was published on Apr 6, 2019.
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- On Aug 27, 2019, the project was renamed to "Woodpecker" ([`630c383`](https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/commit/630c383181b10c4ec375e500c812c4b76b3c52b8)).
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- The first release under the name "Woodpecker" was published on Sep 9, 2019 ([v0.8.104](https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v0.8.104)).
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## Differences to Drone
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Woodpecker is a community-focused software that still stay free and open source forever, while Drone is managed by [Harness](https://harness.io/) and published under [Polyform Small Business](https://polyformproject.org/licenses/small-business/1.0.0/) license.
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