Emby

Mh are you sure about that? I use emby because I like open source but I despise free stuff (at least when one can afford to pay), and I've seen that their server is definitely release under GPL license? But is paid? https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/blob/master/LICENSE.md Afaik I am not sure anymore who forked who but I've seen convos on IRC back then and the issue was solely the fact that emby devs wanted to be paid

> They have multiple contributors who don't assign copyright. But that doesn't guarantee they wouldn't if Jellyfin approached them like "here's $X for writing this code". Or try hiring them from the start and asking them to sign a contract that transfers their copyright over to the company. Or maybe the contributors would tell them no, make a media fuss about it, and then Jellyfin's team could track down their commits and just re-write them. Of course, I'm not saying that this will happen, nor I am saying that the Jellyfin's team will even make an attempt at going down this road, but the fact that it's open sourced at the moment is not a guarantee that it wouldn't be in the future. Emby had a fair amount of contributors as well (https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/graphs/contributors) and then they've just stopped pushing more commits to

Just in case anyone doesn't know the details: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/3075

Sounds just like [Emby nowadays] (https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/3075) . The main issue is not how hard they worked and how they need to sustain themselves. The point is that these people are scamsters who think the GPL and other FOSS licenses are cheap ways of getting users and debugging info. If they were so sure of their efforts they should have raised startup funding and been proprietary to start with. These guys ought to be sued and cast out.