Copyleft Solutions

Copyleft Solutions works from Oslo alongside offices across six countries and thirteen cities, with a 76-person team spanning programming, operations, and design. Founded in 2000, the company has spent 27 years building databases, websites, custom business systems, apps, and servers, treating small customers with the same attention given to its largest accounts. It maintains its own server infrastructure in Norway and describes itself as a specialist in Free and Open Source Software.

Design, development, and operations sit within coordinated teams rather than separate departments, covering frontend and backend development, application development, systems integration, and managed web hosting including migrations. Delivery runs 24/7 through offices in America, Europe, and Asia, and the systems produced are built for longevity, with 10-20 year lifespans described as common rather than exceptional.

The client list reflects that long-term orientation. Copyleft Solutions has delivered frontend and backend development to Arctic Securities AS, working alongside its inhouse developer team for several years, and built a theater touring and planning database for Riksteatret in 2004 that it has maintained ever since. For Ably Medical, the company contributes interaction design, development, and architecture work on a next-generation hospital bed, and it has handled system operations on large Linux-based database and invoicing platforms for Visma over multiple years. Across roughly 2,198 customers and 3,821 domains, the company currently runs 645 servers from 680 square meters of space in Oslo.