Why Open‑AudIT Will Always Be Open Source

Open Source is Our Foundation

From its first release, Open‑AudIT has been open source. It was created to give IT professionals complete visibility of their networks — without black boxes or hidden data. Every scan, every discovery, and every configuration audit can be reviewed, extended, and improved by anyone in the community.

This transparency isn’t just philosophical; it’s practical. Open‑AudIT is used in classrooms, data centres, managed service providers, and government agencies around the world. By keeping it open, we allow thousands of contributors and users to validate, enhance, and adapt the platform to their own needs.

How It Differs from Our Commercial Editions

The open source edition of Open‑AudIT was founded by us and is published by us under the AGPL license - it’s our baby and we love it. Open-AudIT open source is ideal for self‑hosted environments that value flexibility and transparency and you can use it anywhere.

If you want the free commercial features which we have also donated to the community, download Open-AudIT Free - it does have all the open source also.

The commercial versions enable larger organisations to meet evolving compliance requirements (including security compliance), manage complex networks, and integrate Open‑AudIT into business‑critical workflows.

Development & Collaboration

Open‑AudIT is actively developed by the engineering teams at FirstWave, alongside a global community of contributors. Each commercial feature begins as a community concept — tested, refined, and validated in open environments before scaling into enterprise use cases.

We believe open collaboration leads to better security, better transparency, and better tools for everyone. That’s why Open‑AudIT’s source code, documentation, and roadmap remain freely available.