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.
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