CodeRadar License
CodeRadar source code is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1. The license converts to Apache License, Version 2.0 four years after each release, mirroring the model Sentry adopted for its own core in 2019.
License parameters
| Licensor | CodeRadar Inc. |
|---|---|
| Licensed Work | CodeRadar — the ingest API, dashboard, AI-fix pipeline, and all first-party SDKs in this repository. |
| Additional Use Grant | Non-commercial use is permitted. Commercial use up to 1,000,000 events per month is permitted. Resale of CodeRadar as a hosted service to third parties is not permitted while the BSL period is active. |
| Change Date | Four years from the date of each release. The Change Date for each tagged release is recorded in the LICENSE file shipped with that release. |
| Change License | Apache License, Version 2.0 |
What this means in practice
You can
- Self-host CodeRadar yourself. Clone the repository, deploy with the bundled Helm chart or Docker Compose stack, and run the full pipeline on your own infrastructure for your own internal use.
- Modify the source. Build features that suit your team. Submit fixes back upstream if the change is generally useful.
- Use CodeRadar in your own commercial product as long as the use is internal observability for that product (your application sends events to your CodeRadar instance) and not the resale of CodeRadar itself.
- Wait four years. Each released version converts to Apache 2.0 on its Change Date. After conversion, that version is governed by Apache 2.0 with no further restrictions.
You can't (during the BSL period)
- Stand up a hosted CodeRadar service and resell access. The BSL period is specifically designed to prevent the "third-party hosted fork" pattern that competing tools (e.g. Sentry) ran into in 2019. Once a release converts to Apache 2.0 four years later, this restriction expires for that release.
- Strip the license headers or relicense the source. The terms travel with the code.
Why BSL
CodeRadar's wedge is full feature parity at $0 self-host. We want every team that wants the AI-fix pipeline to be able to run it themselves, no procurement involved. We also need a credible commercial business so the work continues. The BSL gives both: source-available today for any internal use, fully open-source within four years of every release, and protected from hosted-resale forks during the period that protection actually matters.
Sentry made the same call in 2019 (BSD-3 → BSL) for the same reason. We are following their precedent because it works.
License text
The canonical Business Source License 1.1 text is published at mariadb.com/bsl11. The exact LICENSE file shipped with each CodeRadar release lives in the repository at github.com/RelayOne/coderadar/blob/main/LICENSE, with all five parameters above filled in.
SDK licenses
The CodeRadar SDKs (@coderadar/browser, @coderadar/node, coderadar-go, coderadar for Python, the Rust crate) are licensed separately under MIT. SDKs that connect to a CodeRadar instance are end-user code; we don't restrict what teams build on top of them.
Questions
Email [email protected]. We will answer in plain English; no commercial-license sales pitch. If you want to host CodeRadar at scale and the Additional Use Grant doesn't fit, we offer a commercial relicense — see the pricing page.