This page documents which licenses are usable at Sourcegraph. For questions, please contact #legal in Slack.

Licensing Sourcegraph code

All Sourcegraph code should generally be licensed under either:

• The Apache license
• The Sourcegraph enterprise license

Which one to choose is a decision that your team, manager, and product/leadership should agree on.

Open Source philosophy

Sourcegraph has an open core business model: it develops Sourcegraph OSS as well as Sourcegraph Enterprise. Like any open core company, we balance the need to serve a strong community, with the need to build a sustainable business that can continuously invest in its products. We are open and transparent, so we strive to clearly communicate our decisions to make a feature open source or not.

In general core value adds should be enterprise-licensed, while utilities, support libraries, etc. that are unlikely to benefit potential competitors should be Apache licensed.

We intend Sourcegraph OSS to:

• allow any developer to build Sourcegraph OSS from source and get code search, with very little obligations (Apache 2)
• allow any developer to modify Sourcegraph OSS with very little obligations (Apache 2)

We intend Sourcegraph Enterprise to

• be usable in production out of the box
• be supported by our team
• include features that enable teams and companies to use Sourcegraph
• include features that deliver significant value beyond code search

We intend all of Sourcegraph to be source available so that anyone can view our code.

Using open source code

Allowed licenses: Permissive Licenses