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AGPL v3. Take that as you may. I'm *open *to changing it. I just wanted to give the project a chance to thrive without someone just hosting it as a paid app and calling it a day. That makes it so that if anyone does want to create a commercial product from this, they would need to offer up the source. My monetization plans only extend to possibly offering an additional plan on the hosted version to help cover hosting costs (which right now are $10 a month and I am covering that, it may become $30 a month if this gets popular).
AGPL works for me. Good to know.
I just avoid using "source available" and software that has artificially paywalled features, the most common paywalled feature is OIDC because most devs seem to think that it's a business only feature.
I pay for Home Assist Cloud, because I want to support them, every feature is available if I wanted to self host it. I freaking love them.
The only exception being Bitwarden, although they have paywalled features in their selfhosted builds I don't know of a better-for-me alternative. I could self-host Vaultwarden, but I pay for their subscription just because I want to support them.
My point is, if it's justified, I'll pay. Otherwise, I'll keep using standalone RSS apps on my devices and just backup my OPML every once in a while.