Open Function Group (OpenFn)

license

LGPL-3.0/GPL-3.0(OSI copyleft)

source

public

core features withheld

no

Fully open source DPG with copyleft licensing and no feature-gated core.

• https://github.com/OpenFn/lightning recorded 2026-08-13

  GitHub reports "LGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0 licenses found"; full Elixir/Phoenix platform source published, 292 stars and 83 forks; no paid tier or enterprise directory

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenFn/lightning/main/COPYING.LESSER recorded 2026-09-29

  The COPYING.LESSER file is the LGPL text: "GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" and "Version 3, 29 June 2007".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenFn/lightning/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-29

  The LICENSE file is the GNU GPL text: "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" and "Version 3, 29 June 2007".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenFn/lightning/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  The README says Lightning is "fully **open source**: there's no" community edition and premium edition, the same product self-hosted or on the vendor SaaS.

OpenFn's own about page reports institutional traction directly: more than 60 countries and roughly five million workflow runs a year. That reported figure, not the modest count of stars on its GitHub repository, is what this reading is based on, since an institutional deployment count is a better signal than stars for a niche, mission-driven tool like this.

• https://github.com/OpenFn/lightning recorded 2026-06-22

  286 GitHub stars

• https://www.openfn.org/about recorded 2026-10-08

  "5 million Workflow runs each year", "~50 million Records handled each year" and "approx. 60+ countries Benefiting from OpenFn"

Broad integration platform spanning authoring, many connectors, and operational monitoring.

• https://docs.openfn.org/documentation recorded 2026-08-13

  open-source adaptor library as the connector layer, workflow orchestration across business processes and information systems, separate repos for adaptors, CLI and runtimes; no benchmark figure