Open source
Our core software will be released under the Apache 2.0 licence. You’ll be free to use it, change it and run it yourself. We plan to charge for running it for you, backing it up and supporting it.
No code is public yet. The first repositories open with our first release.
Why it’s open
If a company is going to move the software it runs on, it should be able to read that software, run it without us, and leave with its data. Open source is the simplest honest way to offer all three. It also keeps us sharp: if we stop being worth paying, you can stop paying us.
What’s open, and what isn’t
The core software will be Apache 2.0. The machinery that runs the hosted service for customers (deployment, backups, billing) stays ours. We’ll publish exactly where the line falls before the first release, so nobody has to guess.
Contributing
Contributions will use the Developer Certificate of Origin. You add a Signed-off-by line to each commit to say you have the right to contribute the code, and you keep your copyright. There’s no contributor licence agreement to sign.
A code of conduct, a contributing guide and a security policy will be published with the first repository.
Hear when it opens
We won’t link to empty repositories. If you’d like to know when there’s code to read, email contact@tenseon.com and we’ll tell you when it’s there.