There is however a difference and that matters significantly. GitLab was a company when they made the move to Open Core. It was their decision to make, unilateraly.
Gitea was a community driver project, with elected leaders assumed to care for the need of the community before their own. But they secretly created this company and transferred the domain and trademark to the company. So the community is gone an the volunteer contributors have been taken by surprise. This is not good.
