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docs: publish the license pledge and a governance document #394

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Why

Self-hosters have watched open core projects move features behind enterprise licenses or relicense. A written pledge removes that fear.

What

  • GOVERNANCE.md: who maintains the project, how decisions and releases are made, how security reports are handled
  • License pledge: Seamless Auth stays Apache-2.0 with no enterprise edition; SSO, SCIM, MFA, organizations and security features stay in the open source product; any managed offering sells hosting and support, never features
  • Linked from every repo's README and the docs site

Where

  • GOVERNANCE.md in the org .github repository, so it is the default for every repo
  • The pledge in the API README and a docs FAQ entry

Done when

  • GOVERNANCE.md states honestly that the project has one maintainer today, and how security reports and releases are handled
  • The pledge is in the API README and the docs, and every Seamless repo README links to both
  • Published after the docs repository is public (chore: make the docs repository public seamless-auth-docs#112)

Activity

  1. added this to the v0.19 milestone on Oct 13, 2026
  2. added theissue type on Oct 13, 2026
  3. added
    P1Security work outside the FIDO2 track
    safeServes the safe promise: no lockout, no lock-in, honest
    v0.19Targets the v0.19 release
    on Oct 13, 2026
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