We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years

Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by sneak on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:39AM (#50392846)

“open source” but it’s the nonfree AGPL, and naturally RBAC and SSO are behind a paywall. I’m tired of fake open source projects that just want the street cred and free marketing.

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Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by kleiba2 on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:44AM (#50392931)

AGPL is as free as it gets. Perhaps the word you're looking for is non-permissive?

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Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by sneak on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:54AM (#50393041)

Don’t believe the hype. AGPL violates free software Freedom 0.

https://sneak.berlin/20250720/the-agpl-is-nonfree/

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Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by levkk on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:30AM (#50394560)

Huh? FSF wrote AGPL and the 4 freedoms.

AGPL does not require you to share your changes if you use it (like most people) internally. It does if you host it for others as a service. Pretty fair trade.

Freedom to use, modify and distribute, clearly enforced for the Internet age.

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Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by sneak on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:03PM (#50395034)

> AGPL does not require you to share your changes if you use it (like most people) internally.

The text of the AGP License does not support this claim.

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Re:We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years by thunderfork on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:13PM (#50396062)

A lot of the arguments in this second link fall flat (e.g. "ohh you're violating the license if you npm run on your dev machine!") and it'd be more convincing if it spent less time trying to nitpick nonsense like that and just stuck to the moral argument it's trying to make

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