Open Source Products

Enthought supports open source software development through financial, infrastructure, and intellectual property investments in a variety of open source initiatives. These commitments range from publishing a large portion of our code as open source (the Enthought Tool Suite, available under a BSD-style license), to hosting the website and mailing lists for SciPy, an open source library of scientific tools for Python. Enthought is a sponsor member of the Python Software Foundation, and provides meeting space for the Austin Python User Group.

Enthought both publishes code as open source and uses open source tools where appropriate in our business. We do this because we believe that open source software enables us to provide greater value to our customers than we could by using and producing only proprietary tools. The open source development model draws on the expertise of a broad base of users and developers to continuously improve the software, whether developed here or elsewhere. Publishing code as open source provides security of maintenance to our customers, and demonstrates our level of technical competence. It also supports the greater good by putting scientific software tools within reach of academic users who may lack the budget for proprietary tools.