Commitment to Open Source

Rugix is developed by Silitics, an independent company owned and led by its founder Maximilian Köhl. Rugix grew out of concrete requirements from embedded Linux products that Silitics has helped bring to production.

We fund the development of Rugix through consulting and system development work for clients, as well as through Nexigon, our commercial fleet management platform. Rugix remains open-source and permissively licensed, and its capabilities are not tied to a Nexigon subscription. For example, delta updates are a feature we built into Rugix, even though other "open core" vendors reserve them for their paid tiers.

To that end, we are committed to keeping Rugix open-source and permissively licensed for the benefit of everyone. Concretely, this means:

• Rugix tools will remain open-source under their current permissive licenses (MIT and Apache 2.0).
• We will not degrade Rugix functionality to push people toward Nexigon or other offerings.
• We will not reject any contributions to existing Rugix tools solely on the grounds that they are in conflict with current commercial offerings. This includes integrations with fleet management solutions that compete with Nexigon.

We strive for maximal transparency with users, contributors, and supporters. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us.