Self-hosted File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload: what licence are you actually agreeing to

“Self-hosted” and “open source” are not the same promise, and the lists that recommend these projects rarely separate them. This page sorts 33 file transfer - single-click & drag-n-drop upload projects by the licence you are actually agreeing to, as read on 2026-08-20.

17 of 33 are permissive: run them, change them, keep your changes to yourself. 10 are AGPL, where serving a modified copy over a network obliges you to publish those changes, which is the clause that catches people who self-host for a team. 0 are not open source at all, carrying a proprietary or restricted-use licence. The remaining 6 are ordinary copyleft.

Project	Licence	What that means	Stars	Maintenance	Language
transfer.sh	MIT	Permissive, no strings	15,882	Active	Go
Zipline	MIT	Permissive, no strings	3,370	Active	TypeScript
Yopass	Apache-2.0	Permissive, no strings	3,072	Active	Go
Chibisafe	MIT	Permissive, no strings	2,751	Active	TypeScript
PsiTransfer	BSD-2-Clause	Permissive, no strings	1,928	Active	JavaScript
Plik	MIT	Permissive, no strings	1,814	Active	Go
Uguu	MIT	Permissive, no strings	1,203	Slowing	PHP
PictShare	Apache-2.0	Permissive, no strings	945	Active	PHP
Safebucket	Apache-2.0	Permissive, no strings	926	Active	Go
Local Content Share	MIT	Permissive, no strings	492	Slowing	HTML
Pingvin Share X	BSD-2-Clause	Permissive, no strings	351	Active	TypeScript
goploader	MIT	Permissive, no strings	300	Active	JavaScript
Flare	MIT	Permissive, no strings	126	Active	TypeScript
snowshare	CC0-1.0	Permissive, no strings	83	Active	TypeScript
1time	MIT	Permissive, no strings	46	Active	TypeScript
Shifter	MIT	Permissive, no strings	42	Active	Python
GoSƐ	Apache-2.0	Permissive, no strings	-	Not measured	Go
OnionShare	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	7,063	Active	Python
Gokapi	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	2,835	Active	Go
ProjectSend	GPL-2.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	1,976	Active	PHP
Sharry	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	1,343	Active	Elm
QuickShare	LGPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	634	Active	Go
Files Sharing	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	287	Active	PHP
PicoShare	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	2,978	Active	Go
Slink	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	1,581	Active	PHP
Picsur	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	1,245	Slowing	TypeScript
XBackBone	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	1,164	Active	PHP
015	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	396	Active	Vue
sE2EEnd	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	9	Active	TypeScript
Digirecord	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
elixire	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Python
Jirafeau	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	PHP
pacebin	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	C

What the licence column means

Permissive (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC): do what you like, keep changes private.
Copyleft (GPL, LGPL, MPL, EPL): changes you distribute must ship their source.
AGPL, network copyleft: the same, and running it for others over a network counts as distribution. This is the one that surprises people who self-host for a team or a side business.
Source-available (SSPL, BUSL, Elastic, Commons Clause): not open source. Reading and self-use are usually fine; offering it as a service is not.
Other / unstated: the dataset lists no licence we could classify. Check the repo before you rely on it.

The Maintenance column is a second, independent check: the age of the most recent commit on the default branch, read from the GitHub API on 2026-08-20. Active is within 180 days, Slowing is 180 to 365, Dormant is over a year, Archived means the maintainer marked the repo read-only, and Not measured means the project is hosted outside GitHub so the check does not apply.

Source data from awesome-selfhosted-data, used under CC BY-SA 3.0. Licence family grouping and maintenance status are computed by this site (from the upstream licence fields and the GitHub API) and are not part of the upstream dataset. Licence classification is a summary, not legal advice: check the project’s own LICENSE file before you rely on it. This page is published under the same licence.