Observed arrival · 2026-11-09
Sell Code to AI: who buys a private repo?
A buyer-by-buyer guide to licensing or selling private software repositories, with published terms, eligibility rules, and exclusions.
- For
- Founders and CTOs with private code repositories
- Worth noticing
- A mock repository example explicitly labels its commit, author email, pull request, and secret as invented.
Field notes
The page contrasts a raw repository example containing an author email and an AWS key with a scrubbed version that removes the key and replaces the author identifier; it labels the example invented. It lists potential deal materials such as commit history, review comments, issues, tests, design documents, and runbooks, alongside exclusions including credentials and client-owned code. Its buyer summaries include specific staff thresholds, such as 20 US W-2 employees for Nyne.
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