License / Usage
License / Usage
The Go Engineer is a source-available educational project.
It is designed for personal, educational, and non-commercial learning use.
The goal is to help developers learn Go, backend engineering, architecture, validation, CI, observability, migrations, and production-shaped software development.
What you can do
You may use The Go Engineer for:
- personal learning
- educational study
- non-commercial practice
- reading and exploring the curriculum
- running examples locally
- learning from the Opslane flagship backend
- referencing concepts in your own learning notes
Commercial use
Commercial use requires written permission.
This includes using the project, curriculum, examples, or substantial derived material as part of:
- paid courses
- commercial training
- bootcamps
- corporate education programs
- paid products
- commercial templates
- monetized learning platforms
Why source-available?
The Go Engineer is publicly readable because learning should be accessible.
At the same time, the project represents a large amount of curriculum design, engineering work, writing, validation, and system-building.
The source-available license protects the project from commercial reuse without permission while still allowing learners to study and benefit from it.
Not legal advice
This page is a plain-language explanation of how the project is intended to be used.
For the official license terms, refer to the license file in the repository.
Repository
You can find the project here:
https://github.com/swe-labs/the-go-engineer