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- Keygen, a licensing-as-a-service platform, is now open source under the Elastic License 2.0 after 7 years of being closed source.
- Two self-hosted editions are introduced: Keygen CE (free, community edition) and Keygen EE (enterprise edition with advanced features, requires a license).
- The decision to open source was driven by market demand for self-hosting, reducing the bus-factor of a single founder, ensuring long-term continuity, building trust, deterring copycats, and meeting enterprise compliance needs.
- ELv2 was chosen over AGPLv3 to protect the business from being commoditized by well-funded competitors and to avoid the complexity of an open-core model.
- Keygen Cloud (SaaS) remains unchanged, and a migration path between Cloud and EE is being developed.