Comment by asciimoo
1 month ago
> are you planning a hosted version
Not in the near term. Right now I am focused on developing Hister rather than operating a hosted service. There are already plenty of centralized hosted search engines, so my longer term interest is in federation and distributed search. I want to make the core system mature first.
> would've been great with a more liberal license
It depends on how do you define liberal. =] I chose AGPLv3+ because I want Hister to remain free software and available to their users.
I agree with AGPLv3, I don't really understand why people have an objection. All it prevents is someone taking your work and making a business out of it.
with AGPL if you modify any part of it you have to open source the entire thing and you may not want to do that or your company prevents it.
In fact many companies avoid AGPLv3 licensing for this reason.
> All it prevents is someone taking your work and making a business out of it.
Not really. I say licensing is moot now because of LLMs.
AGPLv3 is awesome, great choice!
it prevents certain innovations to be derived from it but with LLMs I do think these licensing are pretty much moot.
i still think it could've benefited by Apache 2.0 which more or less gets you to your goals