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Re:Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your o... by patrickk on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:25AM (#13381970)
Plex is based on Kodi (formerly XBMC) which is FOSS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_(software)

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Re:Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your o... by jannes on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:33AM (#13382028)
Only the Plex Home Theater was based on Kodi, but it has been discontinued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex_(software)#Plex_Home_Thea...

Plex apps are 100% closed source as far as I understand.

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Re:Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your o... by dublinben on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:29AM (#13382005)
But Plex itself is not.
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Re:Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your o... by Fnoord on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:37AM (#13382050)
Indeed, Plex is not. Emby and Kodi are.

IIRC the reason Kodi (back when it was called XBMC) switched to GPLv2 is because they got forked by Plex who didn't give back. I wasn't able to find a source on this though.

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