Luckily thanks to their licensing model they basically cannot. Immich has according to github as of now 1606 contributors. Changing the license so that there could even be a proprietary fork would require basically the ok by every contributor (that made a relevant code contribution)

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And even if they did somehow manage to get permission to switch the license, all previous versions would still be open in perpetuity so a fork would come easily. Immich source isn't only open, and not only GPL.. but AGPL-3.0 which is as copyleft as you can get.

[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

Thank God! That's a relief. I thought I was going to have to redo my entire photo library hosting stuff.