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fud, it's "shareware" in the sense that there's a dismissable popup that asks you to pretty please pay 100$, but it's AGPLv3 and no features are locked behind the paywall.
Huh. So anyone could maintain a fork or patchset and distribute builds that were feature-for-feature identical to Immich but with no nag screens. Just an interesting thought.
I don't know about Immich, but in other FUTO projects you click the "I've paid" botton and it's disabled, even if you didn't pay. FUTO licensed code says you can't remove the pay button in derivative works, but Immich is AGPL so that doesn't apply.
You can already do this with their custom css. I did it for about 5 minutes and then realized paying $99 was the right thing to do. It's a reasonable ask on their part.
So we need to make a patch then. Not great but fine.