• kossa@feddit.org
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    17 days ago

    retain exclusive rights to use that code commercially.

    Which would enable you to run your private instance, if you’d like.

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      17 days ago

      Maybe, but if they’re using paid APIs for access and not scraping like SearXNG, you may not even be able to set up a paid API account on many search engines, so your instance may be heavily limited.

    • erebion@news.erebion.eu
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      17 days ago

      Is it a copy or access to their repo? If you just get a copy once, it does not really enable people to selfhost it.