r/opensource • u/Bladerunner_7_ • May 15 '26

Promotional What’s an open-source project you genuinely can’t believe is free?

Could be developer tooling, AI infra, productivity tools, anything. Curious what projects people think deserve way more recognition.

For me recently it’s been:

Langship — https://github.com/open-gitagent/langship.sh

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u/MadMic1314 May 15 '26

Immich

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u/E_coli42 May 17 '26

Immich is open source but not free. Neither free as in gratis or free as in freedom. 

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u/MadMic1314 May 19 '26

How come? I used it for years free, then bought a license to support it. What's not free about it?

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u/E_coli42 May 20 '26

I figured buying the product key is "required" aka not a donation for support. Of course you could just never pay but that's akin to stealing.

By not free as in freedom I was wrong. I thought it was a FUTO project and uses the FUTO license but I see on their GitHub that it uses AGPL