MakeKeeper 0.16: the source is public
On 19 August 2026 MakeKeeper reached 0.16.0, and with it the repository became public. Up to that point the app had been shipping for a month as container images anyone could pull; from this release the code behind those images is out in the open as well.
What “public” means here
MakeKeeper is source-available, under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-ALv2). In plain words: read it, change it, build it, run it — at home, in a workshop, in a company, on as many machines as you like, for nothing. The single restriction is that you may not turn it into a commercial service that competes with it. And every released version additionally becomes Apache-2.0 two years after it went out, so the restriction expires version by version.
It is deliberately not called open source: that phrase has a formal definition which forbids exactly this kind of restriction, and we would rather be accurate than borrow a nicer-sounding label. The licence page says the whole of it in about a page.
What actually shipped in 0.16.0
A project timeline. Projects already had a grid and a list; the timeline is a third way to look at the same thing, with tasks laid out on dates. A build with a deadline — a commission, a print run, something that has to be finished before the next thing starts — reads as a schedule instead of a checklist.
That is the entire release. It is a small one, which is rather the point: the big work of the summer had already landed, and the interesting event here is the repository going public.
Where to start
If you want to try it, one command gets you an instance — the installer pulls the prebuilt images, generates the secrets and brings the stack up. Docker with Compose v2 is the only thing you need in place first; there is no build step.
If you would rather know how it got here, the release story starts with part 1: 0.1 to 0.6.