Home Assistant

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The project is provided under an Apache 2.0 license. This license appears to be used across all functionality repositories for the project, with only non-application code being under non-FOSS licenses (for example, the project website/documentation which is provided under a CC-BY-NC-SA-4 license).

The project is part of the Open Home Foundation, a tax-exempt, non-profit Stiftung (“foundation”) based in Switzerland, which itself is funded/supported by commercial partners & donors. The foundation states:

The foundation has no financial obligation to its partners. Funding and support flow in a single direction: from partners to the Open Home Foundation. Commercial partners, however, are allowed to create products that license Open Home Foundation brands. They may also collaborate with Open Home Foundation employees to ensure general interoperability, and alignment with the foundation’s guiding principles.

The products from commercial partners, which use the project brand (and may be integrated with the project by default) may not be fully FOSS. As an example, the “Home Assistant Cloud” offering from Nabu Casa states “we use some closed source components for the server component, such as the software used to process payments”.