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jhauris | 3 years ago

Looks really nice! I could definitely give this a try. For others who are looking for possible deal breakers:

It's AGPL

They have the community version/premium model. Differentiators of premium (from https://photoprism.app/features):

* support

* higher max res (900MP vs. 150MP)

* non-rate limited reverse geocoding

* higher quality maps

* premium themes

* visual configuration options

* hardware video transcoding

discuss

mimsee|3 years ago

> For others who are looking for possible deal breakers: It's AGPL

What makes AGPL a deal breaker for self-hosting one’s photos?

kybernetyk|3 years ago

You can't build a hip start up around it and get millions of VC money. Because of the APGL you'd have to open source your service. Something the typical unicorn startup isn't too keen on. Taking community software: yes. Building a for profit product around it: yes. Giving back to the community: lol no.

jeltz|3 years ago

Yeah, I personally dislike AGPL but even I do not see any practical issues with it for this use.

jhauris|3 years ago

I agree, for me for this kind of thing it isn't a deal breaker. But for many people it may be.

However, I will say that combined with the freemium model it does give me pause. The reason is I will likely want to add some features that will conflict with the premium version. That means that my changes have near zero chance of getting incorporated into the community version and I'll have to maintain a public fork.

colordrops|3 years ago

Ugh, not a fan of open source projects like these with a freemium model. The company behind it eventually fails, then starts pulling shenanigans or at best stops supporting the open source version. For example, Netgate and PFSense.

RockRobotRock|3 years ago

Nobody wants to donate. I don't see the problem here.