Draft under review. These terms are not yet in effect, and bracketed items are still to be filled in. Nothing is for sale until checkout opens.
HomeButler release [RELEASE VERSION], and the HomeButler box shipped with it, contain software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or 3, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 or 3, the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3, and other free and open-source licences.
[SELLER LEGAL NAME] offers to give any third party, for a period of at least three (3) years after the last date we ship or distribute this release (or for as long as we offer spare parts or customer support for it, if longer), a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code for every component covered by the GPL, LGPL or AGPL that we distributed, including any scripts used to control compilation and installation, on a physical storage medium customarily used for software interchange, for a charge no more than our reasonable cost of physically performing this distribution (media and postage).
Faster and free: the same corresponding source, organised by release, is mirrored at [SOURCE URL] with, for each release, the exact upstream repository, version tag or commit, and container image digest of every component (see "Container images" below). We will keep that mirror available for as long as this offer is valid.
To request source on physical media, write to:
[SELLER LEGAL NAME] Attn: Open Source Compliance [ADDRESS] Email: [SOURCE EMAIL]
Please include the HomeButler release version (shown by butler status, on the box label, or in the file name of your download) and, for a box, its serial number or order number.
This offer is in addition to, and does not limit, your rights under the licence of each component. You may copy, modify and redistribute those components under their own licences. Nothing in our Terms of Sale restricts those rights.
HomeButler's own scripts, configuration and app are provided under [HomeButler scripts licence]. The table below summarises third-party components. The licence file or NOTICE that travels with each component is authoritative; see also THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md in the HomeButler home folder.
| Component | Licence | Where |
|---|---|---|
| HaCasa Nova room dashboard (based on the Homio design) | MIT | stack/homeassistant/www/hacasa-nova/ |
Lit (bundled in hacasa-nova.js) |
BSD-3-Clause | same |
| Hanken Grotesk typeface | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | companion/dist/fonts/ |
| eufy-sdk Home Assistant integration (unmodified) | MIT | stack/homeassistant/custom_components/eufy_sdk/ |
| Demo photos and posters (demo mode only) | CC / public domain / CC0 | companion/demo/media/ |
These are permissive licences; no source offer is required, but their licence texts must be kept with them.
| Component | Licence | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Linux distribution: [DISTRIBUTION AND VERSION, e.g. Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS / Debian 13] [VERIFY] | Mixed: Linux kernel GPL-2.0; GNU tools GPL/LGPL; many others | Source for every installed package version must be available. The box's release manifest records the installed packages (dpkg-query/rpm) and mirror the matching source packages at [SOURCE URL]. |
| Docker Engine / containerd | Apache-2.0 | |
| Firmware/BIOS of the mini PC | Manufacturer's terms | Not covered by this offer. |
| [Any pre-installed Windows licence, if the box ships with one] [VERIFY] | Microsoft licence terms | Proprietary; not covered by this offer. |
HomeButler's installer downloads these from upstream registries (Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, lscr.io) or project sites. On a pre-loaded box they are already on the disk, so we distribute them and this offer covers their GPL/LGPL/AGPL parts. Each image also contains a base OS layer (for example Debian or Alpine) with its own GPL/LGPL packages.
| Component | Main licence | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Home Assistant (ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant) |
Apache-2.0 | Image includes GPL/LGPL libraries (e.g. FFmpeg) and an Alpine base. |
Ollama (ollama/ollama) |
MIT | Includes llama.cpp (MIT); GPU runtime libraries under NVIDIA/AMD terms [VERIFY]. |
| AI models (Qwen 3.5 family by default) | Apache-2.0 [VERIFY per model] | Model weights; any model the buyer pulls has its own licence. |
Open WebUI (ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui) |
Open WebUI License (BSD-3-Clause-based, with a branding clause) [VERIFY] | Branding clause restricts removing "Open WebUI" branding for larger deployments — check before rebranding. |
Speech: Wyoming Whisper, Piper, openWakeWord (rhasspy/wyoming-*) |
MIT / Apache-2.0 [VERIFY] | Some Piper voices and the openWakeWord pre-trained models carry their own licences (some non-commercial, e.g. CC BY-NC-SA) [VERIFY before commercial sale]. Newer Piper releases may be GPL-3.0 [VERIFY]. |
Immich (ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server, immich-machine-learning) |
AGPL-3.0 | |
Immich database (ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres with VectorChord / pgvecto.rs) |
PostgreSQL License; VectorChord AGPL-3.0 or ELv2; pgvecto.rs Apache-2.0 [VERIFY] | |
Nextcloud (nextcloud:apache) |
AGPL-3.0 | Apps installed inside Nextcloud have their own licences. |
PostgreSQL (postgres) |
PostgreSQL License | |
Redis (redis:7-alpine) |
BSD-3-Clause up to 7.2; RSALv2/SSPLv1 from 7.4 (source-available, not OSI open source) [VERIFY tag in use] | Consider pinning to Valkey or Redis 7.2 if you want only OSI licences. |
Valkey (valkey/valkey) |
BSD-3-Clause | |
Jellyfin (jellyfin/jellyfin) |
GPL-2.0 | Includes jellyfin-ffmpeg (GPL-3.0). |
Seerr (ghcr.io/seerr-team/seerr) |
MIT | |
ntfy (binwiederhier/ntfy) |
Apache-2.0 / GPL-2.0 (dual) | |
nginx (nginx:alpine) |
BSD-2-Clause | |
Python (python:3.13-alpine) |
PSF License | |
Tailscale (tailscale/tailscale; Windows app) |
BSD-3-Clause (open-source client) | The Windows/macOS GUI clients include proprietary parts under Tailscale's terms [VERIFY]. The Tailscale service is governed by Tailscale's terms. |
Eufy bridge (ghcr.io/mega-yfue/ha-eufy-sdk-bridge) |
Apache-2.0 | Bundles go2rtc (MIT) and FFmpeg (LGPL/GPL). |
Matter server (ghcr.io/matter-js/matterjs-server) |
Apache-2.0 | |
OpenThread Border Router (openthread/border-router) |
BSD-3-Clause | Only with a Thread stick. |
Z-Wave JS UI (zwavejs/zwave-js-ui) |
MIT | Only with a Z-Wave stick. |
Pi-hole (pihole/pihole) |
EUPL-1.2 | Only when added with butler skills (docs/SKILLS.md). |
| Frigate NVR (cameras) | MIT [VERIFY — not in the current release's compose files; add the exact image when it ships] | |
Downloads add-on (off by default): qBittorrent, Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr (lscr.io/linuxserver/*) |
GPL-2.0+ / GPL-3.0 (LinuxServer.io image scripts GPL-3.0) | |
Gluetun VPN client (qmcgaw/gluetun) |
MIT | |
| Windows "AI/Gaming" add-on: Sunshine game streaming | GPL-3.0 | Installed as a Windows app. |
Steam Headless (josh5/steam-headless) [VERIFY whether shipped] |
GPL-3.0 [VERIFY] | Steam itself is proprietary (Valve's terms). |
| NVIDIA OpenShell (agents preview) [VERIFY] | [VERIFY] | |
| NVIDIA container toolkit / drivers | Apache-2.0 (toolkit); NVIDIA proprietary licence (drivers) [VERIFY] | Drivers are not covered by this offer. |
homebutler-<version>.manifest.json, published next to each download at [SOURCE URL]; every box also keeps its own copy at /opt/homebutler/release-manifest.json, rewritten after each install, update, upgrade or rollback, or on demand with butler manifest) that records, for every container image: the image name and tag, the image digest (sha256:…) that was installed or pre-loaded, the upstream source repository, and the matching version tag or commit. The box's copy also lists the installed OS packages and versions (dpkg-query or rpm). On a running box, docker image ls --digests shows the digests in use.github.com/home-assistant/core, github.com/immich-app/immich, github.com/nextcloud/server, github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin).[SELLER LEGAL NAME] · Attn: Open Source Compliance · [ADDRESS] · [SOURCE EMAIL]