AGPL-3.0
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AGPL-3.0
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I'm trying to learn about licensing. Why do you like AGPL-3.0 compared to others?
The AGPL applies copyleft to web services. If you're learning about licensing, it might be worth googling copyleft. Fascinating concept, and, in my opinion, something to subscribe to.
If you haven't already, check out https://choosealicense.com/licenses/ . This gives a broad overview of the common open source licenses. And if you're just starting out, one of the first things you'll want to learn is that the licenses fall into either a permissive or copyleft category. You'll want to make sure you understand the difference between those broad categories.
Shortly, permissive have less to no strings attached to use their code, and copyleft requires you to retain the same licensing terms meaning if you publish under GPLv3 then someone using/ modifying your code needs to also publish under GPLv3. Copyleft licenses ensure that open source code stays open source.
In very basic terms - GPL means that any modifications you make to a code base and distribute to public, you need to keep the license as GPL and open source all your modifications.
Once cloud started becoming a thing, the cloud vendors went "Well ackchyually🤓, the code changes we're making are hosted on OUR server so we're not technically distributing them to the public. So fuck you we have no obligation to make them open source".
Which is why AGPL exists so even server side code needs to be public. Since the application in question here is a backend service, it'll always be used server side and so any forks need to be open source.
as should be
How does ente photos compare to immich?
I love immich, but I'm going to settle for something that doesn't require to modify the compose every couple of months due to breaking changes. Trying to apply changes for two breaking updates in one go killed it for me.
I'll check this one for the time being
The 1.95 update was trivially easy to update with their instructions if you already have the skill to use docker compose.
Good, once I can trivially not follow instructions between updates I'll check it again.
This is not a criticisms got immich, once they are in the stable phase I'll try, just I don't have the time to be checking the notes every update just in case.
My stack is very large, I rather use sw that requires little to no micromanaging.
I understand this, but that way you always read the update notes and you control what version you install. This can be a good practice.
That stuff breaks is not so nice though.
If you haven’t already ruled it out, I recommend checking out Photoprism. It was the first app I ever self-hosted using Docker and I haven’t needed to change my config because of breaking changes yet.
I use photo prism but be aware they paywall features
Does photoprism support multiple users yet? That was what drove me to immich. But I also don't love the frequency of breaking changes.
Yes, but not really. You can have multiple users but not multiple libraries.
I think if you pay them like 80€ per year or something.
Trying to upload high resolution photos (like the 200mp photos taken with my s23 ultra) completely crashes photoprism for me until I stop the docker container and manually delete the images. That makes it unusable for me
I did use it in the past! I should check it again. I didn't like how the multi user was planned (basically independent instances), but was long enough things might have changed.
If you need/want a robust multi-user experience, specifically with private personal library support, then Photoprism isn’t going to work, unfortunately.
I’ve been using it single user and it’s been great, though I should add the caveat that I upload my photos to my server using Photosync and don’t give Photoprism write/delete access to my library, so no uploads come from it. I had been using Photosync for years before even hearing about Photoprism so it just fit very neatly into my existing process.
Multi user features are effectively paywalled and not technically FOSS due to not allowing commercial use, but roles are documented at https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/roles/ and there’s more info at https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/libraries/
If Photoprism Plus/Essentials features could work for you, but the ongoing subscription is an issue, then you should know that - unless this has changed - you can sub for one month on Patreon or Github, use the info they provide to upgrade to using the Essentials or Plus features, and then cancel the subscription. I still have an ongoing one but I didn’t connect it to my Patreon account or anything so I don’t think anything would change (except for me no longer getting support, if I needed it) if I canceled it.
Was about to ask the same
We’ve consolidated all our code into a single repository – just clone ente-io/ente on GitHub, and you will have at your disposal a state of the art, end-to-end encrypted, full stack (mobile/web/desktop clients, the server, and a CLI to boot) alternative to Google Photos and Apple Photos.
I'm unsure about the end-to-end encryption aspect. While this feature is great for a cloud service like ente.io, it doesn't really help much in a selfhosted scenario - and might make backups more complicated. Any other opinions on this?
Not only backups, but also migration
If you really want to serve the self-hosting community, please improve your documentation. As someone unfamiliar with this product, I have no idea what to do with this once I clone the repo. I hunted and found a compose.yaml file, but it's not clear if this is all I need.
The docs directory literally has a stub on getting the repo up and serving and also a note that they are cleaning up and working on the documentation https://github.com/ente-io/ente/tree/main/docs
I swear people will not do even the most basic reading before complaining
Yeah, and it's so comprehensive.
yarn install
yarn dev
My point stands.
Sure, how do I change the data path ? The config path too ? Yeah people don't read when there is no documentation
Happy to see some alternatives, but I’m a very happy user of PhotoPrism (+PhotoSync) so will stay there for now. Agreed that encrypted at rest isn’t all that helpful for a self-hoster.
Happy to be a paying customer of Ente, always delivering 🙌
So would this be a good alternative to Synology photos?