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# The LibrePortal Promise
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LibrePortal is free software, and it always will be. This is our commitment
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to you — in plain language, so you can hold us to it.
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## What "free" means here
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You can **run, study, modify, share, and fully use 100% of LibrePortal —
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every feature — for free, forever.** The entire platform is licensed under
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the GNU AGPLv3 (see [LICENSE](LICENSE)). There are **no feature paywalls in
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the software, no crippled "community edition," and no telemetry** phoning
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home.
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If you self-host LibrePortal, you get everything. No asterisks.
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## How we keep the lights on
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Building and maintaining this takes real work, and we want to do it
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sustainably — without betraying a word of the above. So we charge only for
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things that **aren't the software** — and only for services we can run
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*without ever needing to see your data*:
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- **LibrePortal Connect** — optional services for the tricky parts, like reaching
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your server from your phone or keeping off-site backups. We work like a
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courier carrying a sealed box: we move and store your data, but it stays
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locked and *you* hold the only key — we can't open it, and we never run your
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apps for you.
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- **Support** — free community help, plus optional paid priority support for
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those who want guaranteed fast answers.
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## The line we will not cross
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**Every paid service has a free, self-hostable equivalent in the open code.**
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You pay us for the convenience of not running it yourself — *never* to
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*unlock* a capability. Want to run your own relay or point backups at your
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own storage? The code to do that is right here, free.
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**Our litmus test:** before anything becomes paid, we ask — *could you do
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this yourself with the open code?* If yes, we may also offer a hosted
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version. If the only way to get it is to pay us, we don't ship it.
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## What we will never do
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- Paywall a feature of the software you run on your own machine.
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- Add tracking or telemetry.
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- **Rug-pull.** What is open stays open — we will never relicense released
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code out from under the community.
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That's the deal. Thanks for trusting us with your corner of the internet. 🕊️
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