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# History of HedgeDoc
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## It started with HackMD
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HackMD is the origin of this project, which was mostly developed by Max Wu and
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Yukai Huang. Originally, this was open source under MIT license, but was
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[relicensed in October 2017 to be AGPLv3](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd/pull/578).
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At the same time, [hackmd.io](https://hackmd.io) was founded to offer a
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commercial version of HackMD.
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The AGPLv3-version was developed and released by the community, this was for a
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while referred to as "HackMD community edition".
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*For more on the splitting of the projects, please refer to [A note to our community (2017-10-11)](https://hackmd.io/c/community-news/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2Fs%2Fr1_4j9_hZ).*
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## HackMD CE became CodiMD
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In June 2018, CodiMD was renamed from its former name "HackMD" and continued to
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be developed under AGPLv3 by the community. We decided to change the name to
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break the confusion between HackMD (enterprise offering) and CodiMD (community
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project), as people mistook it for an open core development model.
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*For the whole renaming story, see the [issue where the renaming was discussed](https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd/issues/720).*
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## CodiMD went independent
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In March 2019, a discussion over licensing, governance and the future of CodiMD
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lead to the formation of a distinct GitHub organization. Up to that point, the
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community project resided in the organization of hackmdio but was for the most
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part self-organized.
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During that debate, we did not reach an agreement that would have allowed us to
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move the repository, so we simply forked it. We still welcome the HackMD team
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as part of our community, especially since a large portion of this code base
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originated with them.
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*For the debate that lead to this step, please refer to the [governance debate](https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd/issues/1170) and [the announcement of the new repository](https://github.com/hedgedoc/hedgedoc/issues/10).*
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## CodiMD became HedgeDoc
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With two actively named forks, sharing the same name. Both [insisting on being
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the original/actual owner of the name CodiMD](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd/issues/1219),
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people became rightfully confused about the projects sharing the same name.
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After roughly a year of being stuck on the name issue, the HedgeDoc community
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decided to take action and started a [renaming process in April 2020](https://community.codimd.org/t/renaming-yet-another-time/102).
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With a good head start in the amount of names, it was decided that an entire
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rebranding should take place and therefore, after a [name was agreed on in July
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2020](https://community.codimd.org/t/codimd-becomes-hedgedoc/170), the next step
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was to [find a logo](https://community.codimd.org/t/time-to-find-the-hedgedoc-logo/171).
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In November of 2020, roughly 7 months after the initive was started, a logo was
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found, the rebranding of the application as well as all community pages took place
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and the time of name conficts was over. (hopefully.)
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