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rustdesk-server
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rustdesk / rustdesk-server

rustdesk-server

RustDesk Server Program

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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
10.7KGitHub stars
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RustDesk Server Program

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-12-08 01:19:35 UTC to 2025-09-26 12:06:33 UTC.

0122021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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The free community version of Rustdesk Server (a competitor to the Teamviewer remote access software) is AGPL licensed. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server The paid, proprietary Pro version builds on top of the community edition by adding extra features such as user authentication and a web backend for administration. There exists a repo for the pro server: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server-pro But it only contains install scripts and no actual source code of the application. The github releases page of this repo however, contains the compiled code of the proprietary pro version and is available for anyone to download for free. Analyzing the disassembly of the pro and open source binaries shows that the pro version is definitely based on the open source version. The company previously associated with Rustdesk, Purslane L
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imited of the UK, is no longer in operation since 2023. The project has no CLA and so the dozens of previous contributors still hold the copyright to their code and have not given permission for it to be used in a proprietary version. There have been multiple requests for the source code of this pro version, but either there was no response or the issue was closed without comment.
In Rustdesk Server Pro allegedly violates AGPL license by not distributing source
Thanks all of you. We did some stupid things before, especially the Wayland "Fix it" button, no excuse, we have removed it, and been working hard to make Wayland support work. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/pull/932 We are also removing Sciter, rewriting the UI with Flutter, https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/tree/flutter_desktop. But Flutter does not support 32-bit Windows, we have to keep Sciter for 32-bit Windows version. As an open source project, we only have very limit bandwidth for you, the connection is not reliable sometime if you use our public servers. That's why we encourage the selfhost, and open source the server https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server. We are attempting to improve the bandwidth, https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/1026. Here is a good video for selfhost which can help you. https://w
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ww.youtube.com/watch?v=9nzHm3xGz2I&t=1032s We hope more contributors can join us to make it better. Here is our milestones: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/918 I do not know why @Technetium said "impossible to communicate", appologize if I made you not happy before. I just lost patience sometimes, it is really not an easy job to maintain an open source project like RustDesk. We communiated very well with RustDesk Server contributor, https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/issues/36.
In RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative

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