This page explains what Kiwi TCMS Community Edition is, how it ships and what risks are associated with it. Please read about the details below.
What is Kiwi TCMS Community Edition
This is the official version of the Kiwi TCMS application as produced by
our own team with the help of many contributors. It may also be
referred to upstream or the community edition version and comes
packaged as a container image which is publicly available and can be downloaded via the
docker pull pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi command!
Who is this for
Community Edition is suitable for developers, teams and organizations which are happy to run Kiwi TCMS without any warranty and safeguards for development, testing and even production purposes!
What do you get
You get access the publicly available container image; public documentation and source code but not much else!
What do all of the individual items mean
Upstream container image: Kiwi TCMS is packaged as a single container image. See Running Kiwi TCMS as a container to get started!
Only x86_64 build: the community edition container is built on Linux, suitable for Intel/AMD 64bit processors only.
No version tags: the community edition container is always the latest version!
There are no other versions available!
GPL-2.0 license: Kiwi TCMS is an open source software, with very long history, with its primary core licensed under the GNU GPL-2.0 license!
No warranty: the community edition version of Kiwi TCMS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
EthicalAds: the community edition version of Kiwi TCMS comes with built-in advertisement from EthicalAds rewards from which are paid out to opencollective.com/kiwitcms for transparency.
You assume all risk: you must understand and accept that open source comes with associated risks. To name just a few: our team disappears and stops development; security issues stay unresolved; code slowly becomes outdated & may incur technical debt in the case of one-off patches! All of these have happened in the past with the predecessor of what is now Kiwi TCMS.
There is no charge but please understand that software isn't zero cost! You pay for it indirectly with time and effort invested in engineering, operations, maintenance and resolving any issues which may arise from the use of said software, regardless of whether it is open source or not!
IMPORTANT: open source and Kiwi TCMS by extension, provide you with more options when it comes to mitigating risks and cost compared to proprietary software. However the easiest way to secure the future of Kiwi TCMS is to become a customer and help us sustain development!
Happy Testing!
If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS please help us!
- Give ⭐ on GitHub;
- Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
- Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
- Become a customer and help us sustain development