Rust Desk

[ApplegateR]

@marcusquinn +1

[RazielKanos]

nay news on this? would really be neat

[stbg]

Could sb. check the licensing of https://www.hoptodesk.com ?
(I mean the Cloudron compatibility in that respect)
It's apparently a fork of Rustdesk.

FYI @girish

[jdaviescoates]

@stbg said in Rust Desk:

Could sb. check the licensing of https://www.hoptodesk.com ?

Looks like it's GPL
https://gitlab.com/hoptodesk/hoptodesk/-/blob/main/LICENSE

Afaik that shouldn't be an issue with using it on Cloudron.

[marcusquinn]

@stbg Great find!

I seem to remember the RustDesk one-man show that didn't answer all community questions related to the open source server part, was a bit of an outstanding question as to the motives and trustworthiness.

Difficult though, as I also think there might have just been some cultural bias and shyness issues too.

This fork looks a bit better at explaining itself.

Rare to see FOSS on GitLab first nowadays, that's interesting. Despite it still being quite the disrupter in the space.

Worth a read:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/HopToDesk/

[stbg]

Ok, super, so as license is good, could you please add it, @girish ?

@marcusquinn, true, FOSS being first on GitLab is rare, but it happens, see Baserow.

Although I'd still like to know more about who is behind HopToDesk.

What I don't understand with RustDesk is that the dev has an amazing star history on Github, but then hasn't figured out the business model – which is blocking him.

With licensing being not clear, it can't be here. Nice rhym
aka on Cloudron.

[jdaviescoates]

@stbg said in Rust Desk:

With licensing being not clea

I'm confused. What license is not clear?

Rust Desk and HopToDesk are clearly both AGPL-3.0 license :

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/blob/master/LICENSE
https://gitlab.com/hoptodesk/hoptodesk/-/blob/main/LICENSE

[stbg]

@jdaviescoates: see here, what girish wrote above:

@girish said in Rust Desk:

I am not sure what is open source and what is not.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/issues/30 says the "API Server" is not. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/issues/26 says "it is not ready yet". https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/issues/20 then says it is free and open source.

Looks like they are trying to figure out the business model.

[jdaviescoates]

@stbg thanks, I just asked for clarity in their Discord.

Someone (not a RustDesk dev, but someone who is aware of what's being done) replied:

Rustdesk Client - AGPL-3.0
Rustdesk Server - AGPL-3.0
The API (addressbook etc) hasnt been released yet so whether its opensource or not it wouldnt stop anything, also there are afew opensource addressbooks being worked on

I also spotted they have docs for self-hosting here:
https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/install/

This is the install script:
https://github.com/techahold/rustdeskinstall

[stbg]

@jdaviescoates wow, super, thanks for figuring that out!
@girish can you add the service now? + hoptodesk? (see thread above)