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Immich x FUTO Q&A (www.youtube.com)

Short version of this interview is that nothing is changing, other than they're going to be asking a flat fee "$5-20" for the app, rather than relying on donations. All donation platforms have been closed. However, if you choose not to, as Louis says "that's between you and your God".

Project will remain AGPL and thus can be forked at any time. FUTO maintains the trademark of Immich name and logos.

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[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 18 points 2 years ago

Yeah I dunno. I sent them $50 as soon as I came across this amazing software.

I think FUTO is trying to make FOSS sustainable by unmistakably asking for money. I'm not sure how much more effective that will be than just asking for donations externally...

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Me too, I subbed for monthly.

The one thing I can see FUTO can do is provide capital up front for developers to work which could be recouped over time as more users begin to use and pay for the software. That makes sense and in a competent, not neoliberal economy, the government might have a fund doing something like that. What I'm a bit worried about is that this might not be all Eron's up to. But again, we'll take his money when he gives it, so long as the work is open source. And we'll see where we end up in a few years. ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

Germany has a fund like that, GNOME just recently got a grant of about 1M Euros to improve features and provide better accessibility

[-] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

The only thing I can see in their License that would make it non-free is the non-commercial redistribution part of it, which is not that bad

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Which might be there to prevent legal troubles from YouTube.

it is. It prevents people from forking it an making their own versions and then distrubuting it. That is not foss,just source availible.

[-] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It doesn't though? IANAL but as far as I can tell you can fork, modify and redistribute it as long as you provide the source code to your users.

It's AGPL-3.0 so.... https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-affero-general-public-license-v3-agpl-3-0

[-] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

That guy was talking about grayjay, a Client to follow creators on multiple platforms at the same time. Grayjay isn't licensed under AGPL, but instead it uses the FUTO Temporary License. It technically still counts as source available, but I think the NC-Part is okay to have. AGPL would be nicer though especially bc of this.

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