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+# History of CodiMD
+
+## It started with HackMD
+
+HackMD is the origin of this project, which was mostly developed by Max Wu and
+Yukai Huang. Originally, this was open source under MIT license, but was
+[relicensed in October 2017 to be AGPLv3](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd/pull/578).
+At the same time, [hackmd.io](https://hackmd.io) was founded to offer a
+commercial version of HackMD.
+
+The AGPLv3-version was developed and released by the community, this was for a
+while referred to as "HackMD community edition".
+
+*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).*
+
+
+## HackMD CE became CodiMD
+
+In June 2018, CodiMD was renamed from its former name "HackMD" and continued to
+be developed under AGPLv3 by the community. We decided to change the name to
+break the confusion between HackMD (enterprise offering) and CodiMD (community
+project), as people mistook it for an open core development model.
+
+*For the whole renaming story, see the [issue where the renaming was discussed](https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd/issues/720).*
+
+
+## CodiMD went independent
+
+In March 2019, a discussion over licensing, governance and the future of CodiMD
+lead to the formation of a distinct GitHub organization. Up to that point, the
+community project resided in the organization of hackmdio but was for the most
+part self-organized.
+
+During that debate, we did not reach an agreement that would have allowed us to
+move the repository, so we simply forked it. We still welcome the HackMD team
+as part of our community, especially since a large portion of this code base
+originated with them.
+
+*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/codimd/server/issues/10).*