Licenses

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. 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.

Using open source code

Allowed licenses: Permissive Licenses

You may use any code licensed under any permissive license, such as Apache, MIT, BSD. If you aren’t sure whether a license is permissive, see the permissive license list compiled by Blue Oak Council.

Not allowed licenses: Copyleft Licenses

We avoid using code and libraries under copyleft licenses. If you can’t find an alternative, reach out to the legal team. Below are the most common copyleft licenses:

AGPL
GPL (ok for internal use)
LGPL (ok for internal use)
CCDL (ok for internal use)
Eclipse Public License (ok for internal use)
Mozilla Public License (ok for internal use)
Anything else not on the permissive license list

If it’s for internal use only and not for distribution to users/customers, then tell the legal team and the licenses marked “ok for internal use” above will likely be approved.