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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by bytepursuits@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hey friends. I finally fired nextcloud - and so should you.

edit: wow. reddit banned me for posting a link to my (completely unmonitezed, unproductized) blog in multiple r/selfhosted threads. I bet it's related to this lemmy link

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

The weaker (permissive instead of copyleft) license alone is a reason to be suspicious of both the project and OP. At this point, it's just telegraphing plans to eventually go proprietary and enshittify.

[-] bytepursuits@programming.dev 12 points 10 months ago

and I would have gotten away with it if it wasnt for you meddling kids.
NO - but seriously completely gratuitous from my end. I'm fed up with nextcloud.

as to licensing - yeah I didnt even look at it, opencloud was forked from owncloud I figured it is something consistent. I like they use matrix for their chat.

as to enshittification - that is something nobody can predict but I have seen GPL3 went private many times: https://directus.io/blog/changing-our-license-one-year-later or mongo I think was agpl3.

tbh yes - licensing is not something I looked into strongly.

[-] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Well, I wouldn't go that far. Let's not forget Nextcloud started as a fork for the same reason. The permissive license doesn't stop us from keeping it alive, but it is something to be cautious of.

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