is it really FOSS?

Infisical

A secret management platform

Issues exist
There's some FOSS code here, but there are licensing, marketing or transparency issues.

Details

The project is provided under a mix of MIT and, for code under directories of a certain name, a non-FOSS enterprise license which limits use and distribution.

Based upon a search of the code, many parts of the FOSS code appear to depend on the non-FOSS code.

The possibility to build using open code was queried on GitHub, and then over a year later on Reddit, which did get a response from the creator:

From a code perspective, there are some overlaps with non-MIT components. For instance, certain UI features may need to coexist with non-open-source code. At the moment, we don’t have a fully EE free version of the repository, but this is a great suggestion and something we’ll explore further on

The project advertises as open source on its blog, in its GitHub project description, and within its project readme.

The project appears to have raised at least $18.8m in funding from investors including Elad Gil, YC, Gradient (Google), Dynamic Fund, Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog), Sanjit Biswas (CEO, Samsara), Antonio Gracias (CEO, Valor) and TwentyTwo VC. The project also appears to gain revenue from selling tiers of its software, by providing it as a service and by providing support services.

Details last reviewed 2025-06-17. Our reviews are performed manually, without legal expertise, and therefore may be inaccurate or missing detail relevant for your use. Please don't treat this as legal guidance or assurance of any kind.

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