License Information

Our goal with the Sailfish OS is to develop an open source operating system in co-operation with the community, thus ensuring the development of a best-of-breed operating system. We believe this will act as a refreshing sea-wind that will help push the industry forward.

A key tool for the achievement of this goal is ensuring that the operating system will be licensed under an open source licensing model that encourages and facilitates community participation. As we have built Sailfish on top of existing open source projects such as Mer, we also want to make sure that the community will benefit from the work we have done.

We are currently in the process of putting in place the processes and licensing structures that will enable you, the community, to take part in developing Sailfish. For now, if you are eager to contribute code, we encourage you to join and contribute to existing open source projects such as Mer and Nemo, in which our developers are also active participants.

In the meantime, if you are interested in hearing more about the opportunities for the licensing Sailfish OS, we encourage you to get in touch with us at info@sailfishos.org.