Comment on Immich v1.109.1 released with optional paid license
traches@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’ll repeat here what I said on discord:
I’m no fan of stallman, but I like his quote: “I’m happy to pay for good software so long as it’s free”.
It’s important to remember that anyone with the skill to work on this project could earn a pretty good living elsewhere. We can debate the terminology, but at the end of the day devs gotta eat.
Personally, so long as it stays on the GPL they can call us “god-kings” and “filthy peasants” for all I care
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Immich is free software. That means anyone can fork and maintain the code and they have the same rights as everyone.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Selling copies of free software is straight up encouraged by the FSF. You don’t have to buy a copy. You can copy the source code and build t yourself. But selling it is legitimate.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I don’t have problems with selling software. I do have a problem with what FUTO is doing. The just up ended a perfectly good financial model and make the “licensing” feel like Windows server.