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Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Looks cool. But you have split up the licenses as Apache and AGPL. Why the split? You could prevent the likes of AWS competition with a blanket AGPL etc... Am I missing something? Or is Apache license OSS some derivative work and from another project?

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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post #2

Looks cool. But you have split up the licenses as Apache and AGPL. Why the split? You could prevent the likes of AWS competition with a blanket AGPL etc... Am I missing something? Or is Apache license OSS some derivative work and from another project?

Maybe it's a means of last resort to prevent the work from effectively going to waste in case of bankruptcy/low adoption?

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

#9

It's easy to miss that this is by the same people making Mattermost, the open-source self-hosted slack alternative you might have heard of. https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard

Yeah this seems like a pretty serious initiative, kind of surprised they're not offering their own hosting though.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

#10
I just downloaded and tested the standalone desktop app. It has a very pretty and responsive interface compared to Kanboard.

I have been self hosting Kanboard on my rpi for my own work, and I think that Kanboard still has many 'poweruser' features that Focalboard is missing.

If there is an easy way for me to migrate my Kanboard data over to Focalboard, I would definitely give it a shot as a daily driver.

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