I guess you need to get your own version of the swedish summer vacation.

The days are finally longer than the nights and I’m starting to see grass underneath the snow. I’m looking forward to start working in the vegetable garden and being able to have a nice cup of tea outside in the sun.

So the issue is kind of similar to bitwarden; how to protect the premium bits when having an open source core?
They just didn’t handle it as gracefully.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/04/bitwarden_gpls_password_manager/

Here’s the history regarding emby if you’re curious:
https://github.com/nvllsvm/emby-unlocked

https://web.archive.org/web/20190327090553/https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/49862-source-code-license/#entry483544

https://web.archive.org/web/20181225073326/https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/3075#issuecomment-408600161

Ah, if you’re allergic to flatpaks and can’t convince your distribution to include it in their repository then you can always build it yourself - https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-media-player
Or just use their web based client with a browser of your choice. :)

They too put a whole lot behind their subscription though
https://emby.media/support/articles/Premiere-Feature-Matrix.html

I mean, except for Tizen OS isn’t most available? You can find the client for Android, Android TV, Windows, Linux (Flatpak), macos, apple ios, and more.
https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients/

As a result I imagine more users will look at other offerings such as Jellyfin.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin
https://jellyfin.org/

Interesting, gonna check out the selfhosted bookwyrm later.
I’m not much interested in sharing book reviews and the like so I will probably stick to https://calibre-ebook.com/ though.

https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/