SourceBans++
Global admin, ban, and communication management system for the Source
engine.
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## Links
- **Docs:** (install, upgrade, configure, FAQ)
- **Releases:**
- **Issues:**
- **Discord:**
- **AlliedModders thread:**
## Install
Download the latest `sourcebans-pp-X.Y.Z.webpanel-only.zip` from
[Releases](https://github.com/sbpp/sourcebans-pp/releases), unzip into
your web root, and visit `/install/` in a browser. The wizard walks
you through the rest.
Full install + plugin setup guide:
[**Quickstart**](https://sbpp.github.io/getting-started/quickstart/).
## Upgrade
[**Updating SourceBans++**](https://sbpp.github.io/updating/) covers
the upgrade path for each major version boundary.
## Contributing
Pull requests welcome. See [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md) for the
guide, [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md) for conventions and the local Docker
dev stack, and [`ARCHITECTURE.md`](ARCHITECTURE.md) for the codebase
tour.
PRs that touch the web panel (`web/**`) are covered by a Contributor
License Agreement; see [`CLA.md`](CLA.md). The CLA bot leaves
one-line sign instructions on your first such PR; you only need to
sign once. Plugin-only PRs (`game/addons/sourcemod/**`) stay under
GPLv3 and don't need a signature.
Security issues: please open an issue with reproduction details, or
contact a maintainer on Discord if the report needs to be private.
## Sponsors
SourceBans++ is built and maintained on volunteer time. If your
community, server network, or hosting business depends on it,
sponsoring development helps keep the panel healthy and funds the
modernization work landing across v2.x.
[](https://github.com/sponsors/sbpp)
**Game-server hosts offering the panel as a hosted or managed
service to third parties:** that use case is reserved by the
Elastic License 2.0 and covered by a separate commercial license;
see **License** below.
## License
- **Web panel** (everything under `web/`): [Elastic License 2.0](LICENSE.txt).
You may use, copy, modify, create derivative works of, and
redistribute the panel for hobby use, community use, running it
for your own clan / network, bundling it into a Docker image,
publishing a Pterodactyl egg, or packaging it for a distro. What
ELv2 reserves is the right to **provide the panel as a hosted
or managed service to third parties**; for that, a separate
commercial license is available. For commercial licensing
inquiries, reach out on the
[Discord](https://discord.gg/tzqYqmAtF5).
- **SourceMod plugins** (everything under `game/addons/sourcemod/`):
[GPLv3](LICENSE-plugins.txt).
- **Vendored third-party code** (LightOpenID, TinyMCE, the
SourceBans 1.4.x lineage, etc.) keeps its own license terms; see
[`THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt`](THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt).