Teleport Community Edition will restrict commercial usage starting with version 16 #39158
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No good news but... what does it means from a pratical point of view: if i upgrade the community version 15.x to 16.x , what happens ? does it works as before or do i need to register in order to prove i'm an homelabber or company that fits in the license requirements ? |
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When you start version 16, there is a disclaimer on the sign-in screen asking you to self-certify that you're eligible to use Teleport Community edition. |
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OK so currently it's just a disclaimer and you trust that who are using the software is telling the truth by "self certify" its usage. |
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Correct, it's an honour system. |
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Dunno if this is just the starting point for the way to close completely the software but surely companies that does not fit the community license requirements will keep using teleport in "unethical" licensed way until teleport company force them to prove they fit the license. Would be better to plan a fair price for the "community" packed version (similar to what proxmox do). Thx |
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Does this mean that the community edition will have feature parity with the commercial edition? As a homelabber, I use Keycloak, not github auth, and that's restricted to the commercial edition. |
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No. This is an Enterprise feature, only available with a commercial Teleport license. |
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Hi, so are we allowed to compile teleport without modification, and then distribute binaries & images free of charge ourselves? |
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You are allowed to compile Teleport yourself and distribute these binaries and images under the terms of the AGPLv3 license. |
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I think they cannot change the baseline software source code license since it's AGPLv3 and they'd need permission from all 338 contributors to do that. So if I understand correctly, they maybe can place additional restrictions like they did on the Community binaries/package distributions, but they still have to abide by the AGPLv3 terms, including keeping the code open. But I wonder how this pertains to the GPL freedoms:
I know that GPL doesn't prevent things like selling your software, as long as you still provide the source code to people who buy it, in order for them to exercise said freedoms. And technically it is always within your rights to also recompile the software to remove any imposed limitations... |
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The sources remain under agpl but you need to compile them and hope that all the build system remain well documented and maintained. Unless someone starts something like centos (take rhel sources and build binary ) it's hard to stay on teleport for free . |
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just when i was assessing implementing teleport for my company then boom this happens. I think ill just wait until i can afford the enterprise license then |
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In the linked blog post:
This doesn't hold up at all. Just require an enterprise contract for Slack support and issue logging; you can absolutely release and maintain a community edition without using any resources whatsoever on supporting individual users of it. I used to recommend self-hosted CE Teleport to friends; I am deeply embarrassed that I have done so now. This is clearly a bait-and-switch where Gravitational has tried to get users to lock into their ecosystem and then charge costly fees without any warning. What a terrible foot to start new business relationships on! |
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If this was targeting businesses with >$100,000 ARR then I might agree, but it's businesses with >$10MM - A factor of 100 higher...
Long story short, this doesn't apply to you. And on the off chance it does apply to you, you should already have some method in place to be contributing to the project. |
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Does anyone know if there's a fork of version 15 that the community is going to maintain? Something similar to how OpenTofu is the new FOSS version of Terraform. |
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@klizhentas |
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As you have more than 100 employees, you would not qualify under the terms of the Community edition license. |
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Can you make the enterprise edition available via homebrew? Easiest way to get updates is through https://goteleport.com/docs/connect-your-client/tsh/
Is the reason because of security? You kinda imply that but not explicitly. Brave browser distributes through Homebrew so surely it can be done securely, yah? |
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also, if anyone is getting this WARNING with the community edition: You can export it to be |
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We open sourced Teleport in 2015 with a mission to secure access to infrastructure. It has since become a popular open source project with over 15,000 GitHub stars and is licensed under AGPLv3.
We have been offering the stable releases of the Teleport Community Edition binaries and images distributed under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
Starting with the June release of Teleport 16, we are switching Teleport Community Edition to a commercial license with new restrictions:
Please read more details in our blog post announcement.
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