2023-07-06, 02:11 AM
(2023-07-06, 12:02 AM)Ze'ev Schurmann Wrote: I do apologise.
I meant no offence...
The reality is, when an open source project gets adapted for commercial use, it's because it is a reliable product. This often results in financial support come back down to the "volunteers" on the project. All the open source products I assist clients with lead to me making a donation to said project on behalf of the client, as a percentage of my consultancy fee or SLA.
I have been toying with Jellyfin for almost 3 years now... it has huge potential. I educate people on the value of open source for their business life and their personal life. Just recently I converted a social media marketing guy to Debian, and he is now thrilled.
Closing off the commercial aspect is not wise, as many larger companies will want paid for support. There is a huge market that is untapped. And at the same time, the project can keep to it's free and open ethos.
That being said, I am not asking help to set up my server. That is already in the nutshell. I am stumped with this one video. Which in the future, this post could have helped someone else with their home setup.
I will attend back to the documentation and play around with various options. Sadly I do not see any guidance coming from here.
You may delete this post, but I ask you to please not ban my account, I will comply to the rules and keep business out of it.
Again, sincere apologies to all.
Hey, Ze'ev,
Just to be clear: You're not in any danger of being banned here and you didn't do anything wrong. I honestly suspect that Venson sort of misread your objectives here. We often get questions from people who are trying to set up what basically amounts to a commercial piracy operation using Jellyfin as a backend. Providing support for those gets exhausting.
Jellyfin is FOSS, and commercial use is absolutely permitted by the license--other legal concerns notwithstanding. It is, generally speaking, up to individual members of the community whether or not they wish to support such uses--but it's by no means prohibited to ask or to answer such queries in official support channels. I do suspect that there might be a number of people who resent being asked to support operations that make other people money, but that's an individual concern and not a concern of the community as a whole. There is, again, no rule against it.
In any case, it sounds like you've found solutions to your problems here, and that's great. Feel free to ask for any additional support you need, and other community members are free to contribute or not.