Comment by maxloh
14 hours ago
Note that this is fundamentally different from the Astral acquisition. At the end of their announcement, they stated:
> Cirrus CI will shut down effective Monday, June 1, 2026.
And earlier in the article:
> Joining OpenAI allows us to extend the mission we started with Cirrus Labs: building new kinds of tooling and environments that make engineers more effective, for both human engineers and agentic engineers.
It isn't a product-led acquisition, but more a talent one.
This is kind-of neat too, at least in the near term:
> In the coming weeks, we will relicense all of our source-available tools, including Tart, Vetu and Orchard under a more permissive license. We have also stopped charging licensing fees for them.
That part is amazing. Back when I first heard of tart I thought it was amazing, with the one downside being the license.
Hopefully development on it continues, or a community maintained version keeps it going.
This is making my current work 100 times easier. Very welcome timing.
This is a huge deal! I secretly hoped for this. :)
This is awesome because I flippin love tart.
Just want to note that we will continue maintaining and improving our virtualization solutions actually with even greater attention. SaaS options like Cirrus CI and Cirrus Runners will eventually wind down so we can focus on incorporating pieces internally.
What are your plans for tart licensing going forward?
https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/blob/main/LICENSE
https://tart.run/licensing/
You’ll be pleasantly surprised. Updates in the coming weeks.
> In the coming weeks, we will relicense all of our source-available tools, including Tart, Vetu and Orchard under a more permissive license. We have also stopped charging licensing fees for them.
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That sounds like a British phrase for pimping.
If your scope includes making the Codex web app environments have additional functionality I look forward to it. More enterprise features and yaml backed pipelines.
If you are interested in yaml backed pipelines check out this open source tool I built for exactly this purpose:
https://github.com/smogili1/circuit
For now.
I mostly clicked the link because I was curious if Cirrus Labs operates Cirrus CI and if so how that would be impacted.
Looks like I’ll need to move the FreeBSD CI jobs for open source projects I maintain to another solution. Anyone have suggestions for alternatives?
I guess qemu over Ubuntu-latest from GitHub Actions running freebsd, but it will be a bit flaky
It could also be a suite of product acquisition, the CI could be a product OpenAI is interested in having, but not sell.
Yeah. Much like Astral - acquiring both the product (because they need to use it internally, but don't care about trying to resell / market), and they also want the talent to keep maintaining it / add features they want.
Is Sam or family an investor in them anyways?
We were 100% bootstrapped with no outside capital or support/advisory.