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Clarify self-hosted support & license terms (#11225)
* Clarify self-hosted support & license terms * Don't fan the open flames * Update develop-docs/self-hosted/index.mdx --------- Co-authored-by: Liza Mock <[email protected]>
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In addition to making its source code available publicly, Sentry offers and maintains a minimal setup that works out-of-the-box for simple use cases. This repository also serves as a blueprint for how various Sentry services connect for a complete setup, which is useful for folks willing to maintain larger installations. For the sake of simplicity, we have chosen to use [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) and [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) for this, along with a bash-based install and upgrade script.
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In addition to making its source code available publicly, Sentry offers and maintains a minimal setup that works out-of-the-box for simple use cases. This version comes with no guarantees or dedicated support. Sentry engineers will do their best to answer questions and are dedicated to making sure self-hosted is running, but that's where our involvement ends. For anything else, we expect users to rely on the [Sentry Self-Hosted community](https://discord.gg/sentry) on Discord. The self-hosted repository should serve as a blueprint for how various Sentry services connect for a complete setup. This will be useful for folks willing to maintain larger installations with custom infrastructure.
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For the sake of simplicity and ubiquity, we have chosen to use [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) and [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/), along with a bash-based install and upgrade script.
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If you're self-hosting Sentry and want to know how to switch to Sentry SaaS, check out this [live workshop](https://sentry.io/resources/migrate-to-sentry-saas-workshop/) to learn more about our relocation tooling.
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## Licensing
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Sentry is using [FSL (Functional Source License)](https://fsl.software/). Although it's not an OSI-approved license, the source code of Sentry and its surrounding service & libraries for self-hosted deployment are open and [available on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/getsentry/repositories?q=has%3Atag-production). For self-hosted, this license means that users can use Sentry and deploy it anywhere (even inside an enterprise ecosystem), but users are prohibited to sell deployed self-hosted Sentry as any kind of offering (SaaS or any kind of business model) and users are prohibited to be a direct competitor of Sentry by using Sentry's code that is FSL-licensed. After two years, the license converts to Apache 2.0 or MIT.
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Sentry is [Fair Source](https://fair.io/) under the [FSL (Functional Source License)](https://fsl.software/). Note that Fair Source is not under the [OSI](https://opensource.org/) umbrella, it becomes literally open source under the [Apache 2.0 license](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) after 2 years, and is practically open source before that except when you are a Sentry competitor. This license means that users can use Sentry and deploy it anywhere (even inside an enterprise ecosystem), but users are prohibited to sell deployed self-hosted Sentry as any kind of offering (SaaS or any other business model), and users are prohibited to be a direct competitor of Sentry by using Sentry's code that is FSL-licensed. The source code of Sentry and its surrounding service & libraries for self-hosted deployment are [available on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/getsentry/repositories?q=has%3Atag-production).
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For further information on the FSL License, you can [visit the fsl.software website](https://fsl.software/) or [read the announcement blog post](https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-the-functional-source-license-freedom-without-free-riding/).

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