Self-hosted Miscellaneous: 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 76 miscellaneous projects by the licence you are actually agreeing to, as read on 2026-08-20.

31 of 76 are permissive: run them, change them, keep your changes to yourself. 23 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. 3 are not open source at all, carrying a proprietary or restricted-use licence. The remaining 19 are ordinary copyleft.

Project	Licence	What that means	Stars	Maintenance	Language
revealjs	MIT	Permissive, no strings	72,156	Active	JavaScript
Reactive Resume	MIT	Permissive, no strings	41,245	Active	TypeScript
CyberChef	Apache-2.0	Permissive, no strings	35,617	Active	JavaScript
Infisical Community Edition	MIT	Permissive, no strings	28,860	Active	TypeScript
Neko	Apache-2.0	Permissive, no strings	22,155	Active	Go
Anubis	MIT	Permissive, no strings	21,562	Active	Go
Teleport	Apache-2.0	Permissive, no strings	20,831	Active	Go
google-webfonts-helper	MIT	Permissive, no strings	13,045	Active	TypeScript
OmniTools	MIT	Permissive, no strings	10,057	Active	TypeScript
TeslaMate	MIT	Permissive, no strings	8,859	Active	Elixir
WeTTY	MIT	Permissive, no strings	5,408	Active	TypeScript
OpenZiti	Apache-2.0	Permissive, no strings	4,352	Active	Go
Baby Buddy	BSD-2-Clause	Permissive, no strings	2,860	Active	Python
LubeLogger	MIT	Permissive, no strings	2,780	Active	JavaScript
asciinema	Apache-2.0	Permissive, no strings	2,490	Active	Elixir
HortusFox	MIT	Permissive, no strings	1,643	Active	PHP
Domain Locker	MIT	Permissive, no strings	1,491	Active	TypeScript
Transmute	MIT	Permissive, no strings	1,301	Active	Python
Koillection	MIT	Permissive, no strings	1,287	Active	PHP
Flyimg	MIT	Permissive, no strings	1,223	Active	PHP
DOCAT	MIT	Permissive, no strings	902	Active	TypeScript
Movary	MIT	Permissive, no strings	770	Active	PHP
Jelu	MIT	Permissive, no strings	730	Active	Kotlin
Wishlist	MIT	Permissive, no strings	621	Active	TypeScript
Cloudlog	MIT	Permissive, no strings	571	Active	PHP
Wavelog	MIT	Permissive, no strings	508	Active	PHP
OpenReader	MIT	Permissive, no strings	496	Active	TypeScript
mosparo	MIT	Permissive, no strings	304	Active	PHP
URL-to-PNG	MIT	Permissive, no strings	251	Active	TypeScript
re:Director	Apache-2.0	Permissive, no strings	45	Active	Java
Mirumoji	MIT	Permissive, no strings	14	Active	Python
penpot	MPL-2.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	58,915	Active	Clojure
LanguageTool	LGPL-2.1	Copyleft, publish your changes	14,839	Active	Java
Habitica	GPL-3.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	14,075	Active	JavaScript
iSponsorBlockTV	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	6,005	Active	Python
ClipCascade	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	1,870	Active	Python
CUPS	GPL-2.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	1,726	Active	C
IT-Tools by sharevb	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	1,565	Active	Vue
Revive Adserver	GPL-2.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	1,497	Active	PHP
WeeWX	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	1,189	Active	Python
DOMJudge	GPL-2.0, BSD-3-Clause, MIT	Copyleft, publish your changes	906	Active	PHP
Anchr	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	392	Active	JavaScript
jetlog	GPL-2.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	343	Active	TypeScript
ImgCompress	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	274	Active	TypeScript
Pønskelisten	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	198	Active	Go
POMjs	GPL-2.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	47	Dormant	JavaScript
Zero-TOTP	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	27	Active	Python
Geeftlist	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	-	Not measured	Docker
Kasm Workspaces	GPL-3.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	-	Not measured	Docker
SANE Network Scanning	GPL-2.0	Copyleft, publish your changes	-	Not measured	C
ConvertX	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	18,533	Active	TypeScript
Libre Translate	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	16,052	Active	Python
Open-Meteo	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	6,041	Active	Swift
2FAuth	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	4,119	Active	PHP
Yamtrack	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	3,412	Active	Python
Usertour	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	2,277	Active	TypeScript
Warracker	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	1,478	Active	JavaScript
Operational.co	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	476	Active	Vue
string.is	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	307	Active	TypeScript
ESMira	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	27	Active	PHP
Digiboard	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digicard	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digicut	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digiface	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digiflashcards	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digimerge	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digiquiz	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digiread	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digisteps	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digitranscode	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digiview	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
Digiwords	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Nodejs
F-Droid	AGPL-3.0	AGPL, network copyleft	-	Not measured	Python
Keygen	⊘ Proprietary	Not open source, restricted use	1,564	Active	Gherkin
RemoteUtilities	⊘ Proprietary	Not open source, restricted use	-	Not measured	Unknown
ScreenConnect	⊘ Proprietary	Not open source, restricted use	-	Not measured	Unknown

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.