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Can I buy the software and run it locally? I'm extremely interested for a client, but there is no way they will surrender ownership of their content to a third party - and I sadly won't suggest they do.

I assume they could pay 150-300 bucks for a single-site license and something like 5-6 pages. Their website is very small. Honestly, cook up a license with per n-page fees and I'm sure you'll sell a bunch.

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You should probably look into https://www.getlektor.com/ which does exactly this but you can host it yourself.

Is is only a hosted solution for now. However, if you keep your content in a repo on GitHub or Bitbucket, you can connect that to Forestry and Forestry will commit any changes back to your repo. There is no surrender of content required. Since Jekyll is open source and you retain your content in the form of a Jekyll project, there is really nothing we could do "lock you in" per say.

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