Terms of use

What these terms cover

They cover freesdn.org, docs.freesdn.org and demo.freesdn.org.

They do not cover the FreeSDN software. That is licensed under AGPL-3.0-only, and where the licence and these terms disagree about the software, the licence wins. The edge agent and the plugin SDK are MIT licensed.

The software licence, in plain terms

This is a summary and not a substitute for reading the licence, which is the document that actually governs.

• You may run FreeSDN for any purpose, including commercially, with no fee.
• You may read, modify and redistribute the source.
• If you modify FreeSDN and offer it to other people as a network service, you must make your modified source available to those users. Running it internally does not trigger this.
• You must keep the licence and copyright notices intact.
• There is no warranty, and there is no liability. That is section 15 of the licence.

The public demo

The demo is the real interface running against sample data in your browser. It is read-only, has no backend, and contains no real infrastructure. It exists so you can judge the product without installing it.

Do not enter real credentials into it. It has no accounts and no server to send them to, so anything typed there is simply discarded, but the habit is worth keeping.

No warranty, and no SLA

FreeSDN is a pre-production release intended for evaluation, testing and homelab use. It is provided as is. There is no uptime commitment for these websites or the demo, no support contract, and no service level agreement for the software.

This is stated plainly rather than buried, because it should factor into whether you put FreeSDN in front of business-critical infrastructure today. The security page and the per-integration maturity labels set out what is and is not proven.

Your responsibility when you run it

FreeSDN can change the configuration of network equipment, firewalls, cameras, phone systems and hypervisors. Every device write is staged and requires an explicit confirmation, but the decision and its consequences are yours.

• Keep backups, and test that they restore.
• Evaluate changes outside production first.
• Only manage equipment you are authorised to manage.
• Comply with the laws that apply to you, particularly around camera recording and call data.

Trademarks

Vendor names on this site identify the systems FreeSDN integrates with. Those trademarks belong to their owners, and their use here is nominative rather than an endorsement or a partnership. See the trademarks page for the detail.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome through the public repositories. Code contributed to the platform is under AGPL-3.0-only; contributions to the agent and the SDK are MIT. Do not contribute code you do not have the right to license.

Changes

If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them, and the history is public in the repository.