tldraw

A web-based whiteboard/canvas

Added: 2025-12-01

Last Reviewed: 2025-12-01

Nope!

It's not FOSS, and it doesn't currently claim to be, although it may have been in the past.

Details

The project is provided under a custom non-FOSS license which has a number of limits upon open use, modification and distribution.

The project used to be FOSS, provided under an Apache license but this was changed in December 2023.

The project appears to have raised at least $12m of funding from investors which include Lux Capital, Definition, Amplify Partners, Lux Capital, Sabrina Hahn, Tom Preston-Werner, Guillermo Rauch, Liu Jiang, NP-Hard Ventures, Soleio, Badrul Farooqi, Michael Stoppelman, Adam Wiggins, Brian Lovin, David Khourshid, Cristóbal Valenzuela, Johannes Schickling, Brian Shultz, Shin Kim, Jeff Weinstein and Chase Davis. The project appears to gain revenue from partnerships and from selling licenses to its software.

Details last reviewed 2025-12-01. 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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