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# About # About
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. Woodpecker is a community-driven open source CI/CD tool. It is lightweight, fast and simple to use. It can be used with many different Git providers and runners.
## History ## History
Woodpecker was originally forked by [@laszlocph](https://github.com/laszlocph) in 2019. Woodpecker was originally forked from Drone 0.8 by [@laszlocph](https://github.com/laszlocph) in 2019 after its license model was changed.
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## Differences to Drone ## Differences to Drone
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. Woodpecker is a community-driven open source software published under the Apache License 2.0 and will always remain so. Drone CI is managed by [Harness](https://harness.io/) and is available in two editions: [Open Source under Apache License 2.0 and Enterprise under Polyform Small Business license](https://docs.drone.io/enterprise/#is-drone-open-source).
In terms of Drone's feature set, Woodpecker is somewhere between [Drone Enterprise and OSS](https://docs.drone.io/enterprise/#what-is-the-difference-between-open-source-and-enterprise), but also has some unique features.