Legal
Copyright and licence
Last updated 30 October 2026.
Copyright
Copyright © 2026 Fettle Software. All rights reserved, except as the licence below grants.
Fettledesk, Fettleboard and Fettlecode, including their source code, documentation, designs and interfaces, and these websites, are the work of Fettle Software. They're protected by copyright law in Australia and, through international treaties such as the Berne Convention, in most other countries.
The licence
The Fettle apps are source-available under the Fettle Community Licence: anyone can read the code, but it isn't open source. In short:
- Free for personal use, and for organisations with up to 10 users, with every feature.
- Free for every organisation, for now, whatever its size, under the free-use permission published with each app (FREE-USE.md). We'll announce its end at least 90 days ahead; after that, an organisation with more than 10 users needs a commercial licence, offered at a discount to organisations already using it.
- Never rebrand the software, pass it off as your own, sell, resell or rent it, or host it as a service for others, and always keep our copyright notices and the "by Fettle Software" credit.
This is a summary. The licence itself (LICENSE), the free-use permission (FREE-USE.md) and the notices (NOTICE) are published with each app's source code and included in every copy of its Docker image, and they are what count. For a commercial licence, write to contact@fettle.software.
Trademarks
Fettle, Fettle Software, Fettledesk, Fettleboard and Fettlecode, and their logos, are trademarks of Fettle Software. You may use the names to refer to our software accurately, but not in a way that suggests we made, endorse or sponsor something we didn't, and not as the name of your own product. The rules are in TRADEMARKS.md, published with each app. Other names, such as Jira, GitHub or Microsoft 365, are trademarks of their owners and appear only to describe compatibility.
Other people's software
The Fettle apps are built with open-source components, each under its own licence. Those licences and notices travel with the software and aren't changed by the Fettle Community Licence.
Reporting copying
If you think someone is copying, rebranding or reselling Fettle software, or using our names to pass off their own, please tell us at contact@fettle.software, with links. We act on reports, including through takedown notices to the services involved.
Contact
Fettle Software, Victoria, Australia. contact@fettle.software