Project FAQ (funding, services, editions) — BookStack

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• License Report an error

  “The BookStack source code is distributed under the MIT license.”

• Trademark Report an error

  “BookStack® is a registered trade mark of Daniel Brown.”

• Investment accepted Report an error

  “No. We do want money to become a core focus, goal, driver or concern for the project.”

• Paid features Report an error

  “No. Money should not be a driver or incentive for decisions made for the core project.”

• Enterprise support hours Report an error

  “If pre-sales support or consultancy is essential, then our “Enterprise Support Plan” includes 10 hours of video/call support & advice which could be used for this purpose.”

• Funding model Report an error

  “The project is mainly funded through donations, sponsorships, and official support offerings. Donations and sponsorships make up about half of the funding, with support offerings making up the other half, although the support side is growing.”

• Presales Report an error

  “No. These are usually desired by very large companies, and can often be very time consuming and non-productive due to the abstract level of scale and business-specific process talked about.”

• Version support Report an error

  “We only support the latest version of BookStack.”

• Release cadence Report an error

  “Usually every couple of months we release a “Feature Release”, which can then be followed by patch (minor) versions to that feature release.”

• Started year Report an error

  “Dan Brown started building BookStack in 2015 while looking for a documentation platform to use for his mixed-technical-skilled workplace.”

• Code hosting Report an error

  “BookStack is primarily organised via the project on Codeberg.”

• Rest API Report an error

  “If looking to build a custom integration for your instance, our REST API is a good place to start”

• Translations Report an error

  “For managing translations, we use the Crowdin platform as a tool for this”

• Security reports Report an error

  “For security reports, you can contact us via email as detailed here.”

• Security mailing list Report an error

  “We also have a security-specific update email list here, which will be sent upon release of new important security updates.”

• Batteries included Report an error

  “BookStack aims to be “batteries-included”, with core functionality designed to be built-in rather than taking a more flexible plugin approach”

• Free open source Report an error

  “BookStack aims to be free (both monetarily & in liberty) and open source”

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