FOSS Commitment & Licensing
Trust should never be blind. Because MindSafe handles your most sensitive data, we believe the source code must be available for public inspection, modification, and auditing.
Open Source Philosophy
MindSafe is strictly Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). This ensures:
- Transparency: Anyone can verify our encryption implementation and “offline-only” claims.
- Longevity: The community can maintain and fork the project, ensuring your notes are never trapped in a dead proprietary format.
- Security: “Security through obscurity” is a myth; we rely on proven, peer-reviewed cryptographic standards.
Licensing
The entire codebase is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0).
The AGPL-3.0 is a strong copyleft license. It ensures that if anyone modifies MindSafe and provides it as a service over a network, they must share their modified source code with the community. This protects the project from becoming a “closed” proprietary service and keeps the software free for everyone.