Free software,
and it stays that way.
Orcastra is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3. Not source-available, not open-core, not free until you need the useful part. The whole control plane is under one copyleft licence.
A control plane you can
audit, fork and keep.
A licence is not a marketing badge. It decides what happens to your infrastructure the day you disagree with us, and GPLv3 answers that question in your favour rather than ours.
Four freedoms, and they are
not ours to withdraw.
Use Orcastra for any purpose, in production, for customers, commercially, with no seat count and nobody to ask.
Read every line that touches your clusters. The repository is public, so an audit needs no vendor cooperation.
Patch it, extend it, strip out what you do not want, and run your version. Nothing in the licence requires our approval.
Redistribute the original or your modified version, provided you pass on the same freedoms under the same licence.
The last clause is the point of copyleft. Whoever receives Orcastra from you receives it under GPLv3 too, so the freedoms travel with the software rather than stopping at the first company to repackage it.
Obligations, stated plainly.
Running Orcastra internally, however you like, asks nothing of you at all. The obligations begin only when you distribute it to someone else.
This page describes the licence in ordinary language for orientation. The licence text itself is what governs, and it is not legal advice.
Open all the way down.
Orcastra manages LXD, Incus and MicroCloud, which are open source themselves, and runs on an open stack. There is no proprietary component holding the middle of it together.
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