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Jellyfish is a fork of Emby.

I think it’s the other way around? But emby went the paid way?

Jellyfin is a fork of the Emby code back when they were OSS. They stopped being OSS, and Jellyfin forked.

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

https://archive.ph/5Rx3x

Aaaa you’re right I just noticed that the last tag is <3.6

Making a project open source doesn't mean you can't close-source it later on and cease distributing updates, like what Emby has done. Jellyfin forked from the last open-source version of Emby that was available under a liberal license.

Yeye I just didn’t notice the last tag on GitHub

It is unfortunate they did not just do the paid route and keep it Open Source.

Yeah it is a shame agree

Which is why Jellyfin forked from Emby, and why you'll find 540 references to the word "emby" in the source code.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/search?q=emby

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