That's an interesting arrangement. I guess there's nothing wrong with it. But I'm not sure what the benefit is supposed to be since they presumably retain exclusive rights to use that code commercially.

[–] pantherina@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

That is not open source at all though lol wtf

12 months trust me bro

[–] kossa@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

retain exclusive rights to use that code commercially.

Which would enable you to run your private instance, if you'd like.

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe, but if they're using paid APIs for access and not scraping like SearXNG, you may not even be able to set up a paid API account on many search engines, so your instance may be heavily limited.

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 3 points 1 day ago

Is it a copy or access to their repo? If you just get a copy once, it does not really enable people to selfhost it.