#Mattermost open source software

It can be installed within a companys network. I note in passing that MIT permits reverse-engineering the binary, so in theory you could reverse-engineer the source from that, and have it usable under very lax licence terms. Mattermost is an open source chat and collaboration service similar to and largely compatible with Slack. This concept is well-known and doesn't, it seems to me, conflict with Mattermost's use of MIT for their binary.

It’s a mixture of both Slack and Microsoft Teams and makes it a superset of both the applications. It’s considered an alternative to the most popular proprietary live chat apps and team collaboration software.

#Mattermost open source software

In this case, we also have the added wrinkle that the source distribution is dual-licensed, much in the manner of MySQL: if you want to take this source code and use it as the basis for your own project, then if you're going to give your customers freedom you can use this source for free, but if you're not you have to pay. Mattermost app is an open source team collaboration and live chat software that is highly secure and scalable. The use of the MIT licence for the binary makes clear what can and can't be done with the binary in a way that makes immediate sense to people with free software experience, and it's quicker and simpler than trying to write your own freely-redistributable-binary licence. As we said there, it's basically formalised freeware: the binary can be freely distributed (and in principle, freely modified, for all the good it will do you) but it doesn't come with source. It brings messaging and file sharing into. We already have a question here about distributing the compiled binary form of a piece of proprietary software under an MIT licence. Mattermost is a sleek Slack-compatible open source service that makes it easy to self-host team communications.