Clipperz Community Edition

Clipperz Community Edition allows you to host on your own server a web service identical to Clipperz online password manager. It supports multiple backends (PHP/MySQL, Python/AppEngine, …) and you can contribute your own. The full repository of Clipperz Community Edition is available from GitHub.

get Clipperz Community Edition

Why a Community Edition

But why would you prefer running Clipperz Community Edition from your own server instead of using the free and anonymous online service provided by its developers?

  • “Clipperz security architecture is great, but I prefer to store my data on my hardware. I just feel better this way!”
  • “Clipperz is cool, but it would be even cooler it it had a Scala backend. I’m going to write it!”
  • “I would like to modify the look & feel of Clipperz and embed this powerful password manager within my family intranet.”
  • “Clipperz works nicely, but I would love to play with the source code in order to improve feature X and add new features Y and Z.”
  • …

Whatever is your motivation, we would love to hear from you about how and where you use Clipperz Community Edition. Get in contact!

Warnings

Please note that Clipperz Community Edition may not be suitable for mass deployments, depending on how robust is the backend you select.

As an example, the current PHP backend lacks several critical capabilities such as bot protection and cuncurrent sessions management.

Community Edition vs Workgroup Edition

This Community Edition is aimed to individual users, but you may be interested to know that we are working on a Workgroup Edition targeting organizations that need a password manager for their workforce (creating and managing employees accounts, defining groups and sharing policies, …).

The Workgroup Edition development is quite challenging and, while the overall design is already in place, it will still require a fairly large amount of resources for analysis and implementation.

If your organization is interested in such edition, you can subscribe a “pledge” to sustain its development in exchange for a very generous user license with unlimited upgrades and other benefits. Again, get in contact!

Contributions

Your contributions to Clipperz Community Edition are very welcome! In order to avoid jeopardizing the ownership of the code base, we will require every developer to sign the Clipperz Contributor Agreement

This enables a single entity to represent the aggregated code base and gives the community flexibility to act as a whole to changing situations.

The CA establishes a joint copyright assignment in which the contributor retains copyright ownership while also granting those rights to Clipperz Srl.

License

All the code included in Clipperz Community Edition, if not otherwise stated, is released with the AGPL v3 license and all rights are reserved to Clipperz Srl.

For any use not allowed by the AGPL license, please contact us to inquire about licensing options for commercial applications.

AGPLv3