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I almost standardized on Dockhand for my homelab. Then its license moved the goalposts.
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I almost standardized on Dockhand for my homelab. Then its license moved the goalposts.

Dockhand's BSL 1.1 promised a fixed Apache 2.0 conversion date. That date quietly became a rolling four-year window per release — which never actually arrives if the project keeps shipping. A reminder to read the license text, not the marketing page, before building infrastructure around a tool.

2026-10-28 / 03 min
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