LibrePortal/PROMISE.md
librelad 875a60f90f LibrePortal v0.1.0 — initial release
A free, open, self-hosted app platform (GNU AGPLv3): one-click app deploys,
Traefik reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker support, gluetun
VPN routing, and a web dashboard to manage it all.

Free & open forever to self-host; optional paid hosted services fund it.
See PROMISE.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
2026-05-21 20:37:54 +01:00

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The LibrePortal Promise

LibrePortal is free software, and it always will be. This is our commitment to you — in plain language, so you can hold us to it.

What "free" means here

You can run, study, modify, share, and fully use 100% of LibrePortal — every feature — for free, forever. The entire platform is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3 (see LICENSE). There are no feature paywalls in the software, no crippled "community edition," and no telemetry phoning home.

If you self-host LibrePortal, you get everything. No asterisks.

How we keep the lights on

Building and maintaining this takes real work, and we want to do it sustainably — without betraying a word of the above. So we charge only for things that aren't the software:

  • LibrePortal Cloud — optional hosted services we run for you: remote access (no port-forwarding), off-site encrypted backups, a free subdomain with automatic HTTPS, phone notifications, and more.
  • Managed hosting — we run LibrePortal for you, if you'd rather not.
  • Support — priority help for those who want it.

The line we will not cross

Every paid service has a free, self-hostable equivalent in the open code. You pay us for the convenience of not running it yourself — never to unlock a capability. Want to run your own relay or point backups at your own storage? The code to do that is right here, free.

Our litmus test: before anything becomes paid, we ask — could you do this yourself with the open code? If yes, we may also offer a hosted version. If the only way to get it is to pay us, we don't ship it.

What we will never do

  • Paywall a feature of the software you run on your own machine.
  • Add tracking or telemetry.
  • Rug-pull. What is open stays open — we will never relicense released code out from under the community.

That's the deal. Thanks for trusting us with your corner of the internet. 🕊️