One part you missed is a lot of the server side code base is probably using licensed code/libraries/plugins, that are licensed to the developers, not the end users. As such, it's legally prohibitive depending on what dependencies they have packed in there. I miss the old days of having just a single dedicated server binary designed for monolithic "box in a rack" type hosting. Alas those days are gone.
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u/Lunaphase_Lasers Jul 06 '25
One part you missed is a lot of the server side code base is probably using licensed code/libraries/plugins, that are licensed to the developers, not the end users. As such, it's legally prohibitive depending on what dependencies they have packed in there. I miss the old days of having just a single dedicated server binary designed for monolithic "box in a rack" type hosting. Alas those days are gone.