is it really FOSS?

Dokploy

A platform as a service for applications

Issues exist
There's some FOSS code here, but there are licensing, marketing or transparency issues.

Details

The project is provided under an Apache License 2.0 with additional terms applied.

The additional terms restrict rights of use, modification and distribution.

Looking at the project, it’s very difficult to understand how those additional terms apply overall since they’re applicable to features rather than specific portions of code. It’s highly likely that the parts under these additional terms are relied upon as non-option parts of the Apache licensed code.

These issues were raised with the maintainer, but they confirmed they’d like to retain this approach.

The project is marketed as open source on its website, repository and marketing.

The project appears to be funded from providing the software as a service, and they also take donations, including via the [Open Source Collective](Open Source Collective).

Details last reviewed 2025-06-08. Our reviews are performed manually, without legal expertise, and therefore may be inaccurate or missing detail relevant for your use. Please don't treat this as legal guidance or assurance of any kind.

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