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lightningnetwork/lnd is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts. Hence, a higher number means a better lnd alternative or higher similarity.

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Posts where lnd has been mentioned. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects - the last one was on 2021-06-16.

Bootstrapping a LN node with 10 channels, 20M sats capacity including 8M sats inbound.. using only 1 onchain transaction locking 12M sats of your own bitcoin.
reddit.com/r/TheLightningNetwork | 2021-06-16

100 ksat according to release notes is maximum value in version 0.13 of LND. I guess earlier versions would require 10 ksat per channel with no maximum.

reddit.com/r/TheLightningNetwork | 2021-06-16

From the lnd release notes
Why El Salvador Bitcoin story is evil
reddit.com/r/btc | 2021-06-10
Paid a lightning invoice with Euros at Miami Bitcoin 2021. All within 2 seconds! This is the power and speed of the Lightning Network
reddit.com/r/Bitcoin | 2021-06-08

LND has a feature called SCB (static channel backup), this can help you when the channel data gets deleted/corrupted, it has enough information about the channels to contact the other LN nodes you had channels with and ask them to cooperatively close those channels for you. If you have this backup file anywhere, attempt to restore it following this procedure maybe.

reddit.com/r/Bitcoin | 2021-06-08

You might be interested to know that there is a new PR for LND to support "pseudo-reuse" of atomic multipath invoices. The mechanism generates a new payment secret for each payment to avoid the problem I described.

reddit.com/r/Bitcoin | 2021-06-08
Bitcoin Lightning Network
reddit.com/r/Bitcoin | 2021-06-07

You are right that Lightning Network will benefit from many upgrades (starting with Taproot) but watchtowers are supported by LND since 2019.
My reply to people who tell me to “just use lightning”
reddit.com/r/btc | 2021-06-06
Is it possible to choose which UTXOs are used for opening a channel?
reddit.com/r/lightningnetwork | 2021-06-06
How to get started with lightning?
reddit.com/r/Bitcoin | 2021-06-05
Learning computer programming and wanting to contribute to LN development
reddit.com/r/TheLightningNetwork | 2021-05-30
Wow $630 million moved on BTC for $5! Lost $15 million in value waiting to be confirmed... (waited 45 minutes)
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Every night…! - Posting a LN meme a day for 141 days straight: #72
reddit.com/r/TheLightningNetwork | 2021-05-27

Might want to submit a feature request/bug report on their Github about it then? https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues
Co-inventor of Lightning Network Tadge Dryja: The Lightning Network is not patented.
reddit.com/r/btc | 2021-05-25

Prior art voids patents. Secondly, yes, Blockstream's c-lightning is released under FOSS license. But c-lightning isn't even the most popular implementation of LN, LND is (released under FOSS MIT license). Neither Bitcoin not LN could work if they weren't released under FOSS licenses.
Off-chain channel recovery
reddit.com/r/TheLightningNetwork | 2021-05-19

See https://github.com/guggero/chantools for some information and in general https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/safety.md for Safety Operating Guidelines.