What did they do to immich?!
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turtl@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Such a bummer that they took over Immich
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
P13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Funded a team of devs to work on it full time.
isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Pls explain. I cannot see how it is shareware with an AGPL licence behind it and full code published. Or is it just fud ?
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
fud, it’s “shareware” in the sense that there’s a dismissable popup that asks you to pretty please pay 100$, but it’s AGPLv3 and no features are locked behind the paywall.
P13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Sorry, that’s what I grew up calling paid software that was free to use in practice. That effectively how Immich is presented now. There is a button to buy a license which changes to an (optional) supporter badge once purchased.
For the record, I am very happy with the software and paid for a license. I can see why people are bothered with Futo’s language but I personally can’t complain with how they’ve handled the project itself.
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
So immch is dead before it even matured enough to be reliable? Sad.
extremeboredom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Still struggling to understand what makes it “dead.”
beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
It’s a big disappointment because the facial recognition is great, meaning that they could be doing bad things behind the scene. They could have a backdoor so their buddies could check to see if you’re Hispanic or non-white. That’s just one thing. Could is not is. But its enough to make me stop and think of uninstalling.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s still open source, not sure where this is coming from
extremeboredom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A backdoor in what, exactly?? Please do some research into the programs you’re running so you can base your opinions on that knowledge rather than vibes.
isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Immich is fine… full FOSS and alive. I just dont get you people.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
What keeps them from changing the Immich license from AGPL to FUTO?
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Copyright.
AGPL says that the original author of any chunk of code owns the copyright to it.
Meaning to change the license you have to get every copyright holder (read every developer who has contributed code) to agree to the license change and give over the copy right.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
From what I’m seeing, you’re right. If there was a contributor assignment policy (some official policy associated with Immich saying that by submitting a PR, you agree to assign copyright on your code changes go the Immich project), FUTO could change the license on future versions as they wished. But it doesn’t look like there’s any contributor assignment or contributor license agreement on Immich.
To be pedantic, Immich did change from MIT to AGPLv3 a while ago. FUTO could technically scrap the current version, grab the last MIT version of the code, relicense it under their “source-first” license (or any other license they like, pretty much), and declare “this is now the official development version of Immich from which new releases will come.” That would be drastic even for FUTO, though (I don’t think that’s likely any time soon), and the community could then fork the latest AGPLv3 version with a different name and carry on with development.