is it really FOSS?

Akaunting

Web-based accounting software

Nope!
Not FOSS but there are FOSS related licensing, marketing, or transparency issues.

Details

The project is provided under a Business Source License which is non-FOSS due to limitations on use, modification and distribution. This has a change date of four years to GPLv3 after publish.

The license was originally GPLv3 but changed in October 2023.

The project markets itself as open source on a lot of places across its website, including 4 mentions on its homepage alone.

A discussion with the project regarding their marketing cannot be found, but there’s a relevant prior Hacker News discussion.

The project appears to have raised at least $500k of funding. The project also appears to receive revenue from providing their software as a service.

Details last reviewed 2025-06-10. Mistakes or outdated information? Let us know by opening an issue on Codeberg.