License watch: 15 projects that failed at least one check
Read 2026-11-14
Sorted so that license problems come first, then archived and stale projects. A failing row is not a verdict on quality: a source-available license can be fine for a single team and a split license can be fine if you stay out of the separately licensed folders. The point is that you see it before you migrate.
toeverything/AFFiNE Open source plus separately licensed parts
License file: “All content that resides under the "packages/backend" and "packages/common/native" directory of this repository, if that directory exists, is licensed under the license defined in "packages/backend/server/LICENSE".”
Listed under Notion. Repository
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat Open source plus separately licensed parts
License file: “All content that resides under the "apps/meteor/ee/" and "ee/" directories of this repository, if that directory exists, is licensed under the license defined in "apps/meteor/ee/LICENSE".”
Listed under Slack, Discord. Repository
outline/outline Source-available, not open source
License file: “The Business Source License (this document, or the “License”) is not an Open Source license.”
Listed under Notion, Confluence. Repository
PostHog/posthog Open source plus separately licensed parts
License file: “All content that resides under the "ee/" directory of this repository, if that directory exists, is licensed under the license defined in "ee/LICENSE".”
Listed under Google Analytics. Repository
mattermost/mattermost Open source plus separately licensed parts
License file (server/enterprise/LICENSE): “may only be used in production, if you (and any entity that”
Listed under Slack, Discord. Repository
Dokploy/dokploy Open source plus separately licensed parts
License file: “All content that resides under a "/proprietary" directory of this repository, if that directory exists, is licensed under the license defined in "LICENSE_PROPRIETARY".”
Listed under Vercel, Netlify, Heroku. Repository
netbirdio/netbird Open source plus separately licensed parts
License file: “This BSD-3-Clause license applies to all parts of the repository except for the directories management/, signal/, relay/ and combined/. Those directories are licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.0 (AGPLv3).”
Listed under Tailscale, ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel. Repository
plausible/analytics Open source plus separately licensed parts
License file (extra/COPYING.txt): “This repository is provided for informational purposes only, and no rights to use, distribute or otherwise exploit this software are granted to you.”
Listed under Google Analytics. Repository
fosrl/pangolin Open source plus separately licensed parts
License file: “All files that include a header specifying they are licensed under the "Fossorial Commercial License" are governed by the Fossorial Commercial License terms.”
Listed under Tailscale, ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel. Repository
docmost/docmost Open source plus separately licensed parts
License file (packages/ee/LICENSE): “may only be used in production, if you (and any entity that”
Listed under Confluence. Repository
theonedev/onedev Open source plus separately licensed parts
License file (server-product/system/license.txt): “The EE module (file starting with "io.onedev.server-ee" under "lib" directory) is licensed under the commercial license described below”
Listed under GitHub. Repository
caprover/caprover Open-source license with added terms
License file: “Unless provided with a written agreement, the paid features of CapRover (as a service) cannot be modified.”
Listed under Vercel, Netlify, Heroku. Repository
arp242/goatcounter Open-source license with added terms
License file: “GoatCounter is licensed under a slightly modified version of European Union Public License (EUPL) 1.2”
Listed under Google Analytics. Repository
pocketbase/pocketbase MIT
The repository page, opened in a browser on 2026-11-14, says: “This repository was archived by the owner on Oct 26, 2026. It is now read-only.”
Listed under Firebase. Repository
minio/minio AGPL-3.0
The repository page, opened in a browser on 2026-11-14, says: “This repository was archived by the owner on Apr 25, 2026. It is now read-only.” No release or push for 204 days (last push 2026-04-24).
Listed under MinIO. Repository