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Re:Remembering the LAN by fxtentacle on Monday March 23, 2020 @12:33PM (#22665637)
There's also https://www.zerotier.com/

- open source self-hosting

- hosted free to use for personal use

I used them for Remote Desktop to my AI training machine when I was still traveling around, and that worked nicely :)

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Re:Remembering the LAN by ryukafalz on Monday March 23, 2020 @01:12PM (#22666130)
>open source self-hosting

It's not open source, at least not the current version. It's under their modified version of the Business Source License: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/LICENSE....

This is, IMO, much better than the typical proprietary license, but it's still not open source, and the license itself says as much:

>The Business Source License (this document, or the "License") is not an Open Source license.

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Re:Remembering the LAN by fxtentacle on Monday March 23, 2020 @02:57PM (#22667382)
Yeah, I should have written something like "source code available for self-hosting".

The important point for me isn't really if this is true Open Source or not, but that I usually want (even paid is OK) access to source code so that I can fix things myself, if I have to.

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Re:Remembering the LAN by api on Monday March 23, 2020 @01:28PM (#22666338)
This is the same license as CockroachDB and a bunch of other projects. It's used in cases where a company wants to avoid their product being put behind someone else's paywall ("SaaSification"). The AGPL isn't quite good enough and has issues.
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