SourceTree has been free since joining Atlassian. We'll continue to keep the product free as part of our Bitbucket platform to help developers adopt Git and Mercurial.
Uhm, excuse me, but the license has a fragment with very strange wording and rather unclear meaning:
"The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed as follows:
(a) Installation and Use.
Atlassian grants you the right to install and use copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your computer running a validly licensed copy of the operating system for which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT was designed. 'Validly licensed' means the following:
(i) For evaluation, using the software for up to 30 days free of charge, or
(ii) After purchasing a single license, using the software on a single computer, OR
using the software on multiple computers so long as it is the same person using it"
Could you, or someone, please try to explain what's the intended meaning here, and maybe simplify the original text? Is this really referring to OS license?? Why? Sounds a bit so, but not fully, it is confusing. Please help, kind of fumble point for some people striving to be legal.
I want to thank you for a great product and a perfect price point. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but any chance of open sourcing it in the future?
We distribute source for JIRA, Stash, etc if you're a paying license holder for better plugin development. This is something we'll be sure to review if we add plugin support to SourceTree in the future.
Cheers, Justen -- Bitbucket & SourceTree product manager