Clipperz Community Edition

Clipperz Community Edition allows you to host on your own server a web service identical to Clipperz online password manager. It’s open source and released under an AGPL license.

But why would you prefer running Clipperz Community Edition from your own server instead of using the online service provided by its developers?

• “Clipperz security architecture is great, but I prefer to store my data on my hardware. I just feel better this way!”
• “Clipperz password manager could be very useful in my department, but our internal policies does not allow to store data, even encrypted data, on an external server.”
• “I would like to modify the look & feel of Clipperz and embed this powerful password manager within my family intranet.”
• “Clipperz works nicely, but I would love to play with the source code in order to improve feature X and add new features Y and Z.”
• …

Whatever is your motivation, we would love to hear from you about how and where you use Clipperz Community Edition. Get in contact!

Please note that Clipperz Community Edition is not suitable for mass deployments since it lacks several critical capabilities such as bot protection. If you want to offer Clipperz password manager to a wide audience, please wait for the upcoming Provider Edition.

In any case if you want to use Clipperz’s software in a commercial, for-profit environment, please contact us to inquire about licensing options for commercial applications.

Requirements

• PHP 5
• MySQL

Download

Clipperz Community Edition is available from SourceForge.net.

License

Clipperz offers three versions of its software, the Community Edition, the Provider Edition and the Commercial Edition. All share a large body of source code.

Community and Provider Edition are open source, while the Commercial Edition has a commercial license. This dual-license strategy is now common with commercial open source software.

Clipperz Community Edition use the AGPL v3 open source license that lets you offer your software to all who wish to use, modify and distribute it freely. The AGPLv3 open source license allows you to use Community Edition at no charge under the condition that if you use Clipperz code in an application that you distribute, the complete source code for your application must be available and freely redistributable under reasonable conditions.

With this license, you can download, inspect, develop and test Clipperz code. Many organizations do exactly this before they contact us regarding a commercial license.

In layman’s terms, the Community Edition can be freely used for many purposes. The most notable exception is if you change or add to the code and you use the software as the basis of an Internet or network-based service, you must publish your code or buy a commercial license.

Here are some guidelines as to whether an open source or commercial license is right for you:

• If your software is licensed under a GPL-compatible Free Software License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by OSI, then use our open source Community Edition.
• If you plan to distribute a proprietary application or service, and you are not licensing and distributing your source code under GPL and AGPLv3, you need to purchase a commercial license from Clipperz.
• If you are unsure, we suggest that you contact us to discuss your situation.