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Who we are

Editor42 is built and maintained by EdSDK, a development team that has worked with embeddable rich text editors since 2008. This is familiar ground for us. Rich text editing is the work we do; the editor we forked is one we have shipped in our own products for years; and Editor42 is the version of it we wanted for ourselves, made public so anyone can use it on the same terms.

Decades of editor work​

Since 2008 we have built integrations, plugins, and tooling around the two editors most teams reach for: TinyMCE and CKEditor. It is detailed, demanding work, and staying with it this long has taught us how these editors behave inside real products and what it takes to keep them dependable. It is also where our own developer products, such as N1ED and Flmngr, come from: tools for teams who needed those editors to do more than they do out of the box.

Editor42 grew straight out of that experience. When the open-source TinyMCE 6 line reached end of life and later versions moved to a GPL-or-commercial license, the teams we work with hit a concrete problem — and so did we. We already knew the editor inside and out, which put us in a good position to keep it alive properly rather than leave it carrying known vulnerabilities.

We run on it ourselves​

The strongest thing we can say about Editor42's quality is that we depend on it too. This is not a project we maintain at arm's length for other people to use — it is the editor we run inside our own products. If a release breaks something, or a fix introduces a regression, we are the first to feel it, in software we are responsible for and ship to our own users. That alignment is the point: our reason to keep Editor42 solid is built into our own work, so it holds steady release after release.

Open to everyone​

Editor42 began as something we built for the teams we work with: they needed a permissively-licensed, secure editor and could not wait for one to materialize. Rather than solve that quietly, one client at a time, we turned it into a public project that anyone can adopt on exactly the same footing. What started as an answer for our own customers is now simply available to everyone — free, open, and maintained in the open.

MIT, and it stays that way​

The whole reason Editor42 exists is the MIT license, so putting that in question would defeat the point. Editor42 is MIT-licensed, and it will stay MIT-licensed — we have no plans, now or down the road, to relicense it, gate it behind a commercial tier, or move features behind a paywall. We are a commercial company and we are upfront about that, but Editor42 itself is a free, open-source project and is meant to remain one, release after release.

Get in touch​

Using Editor42 in your product, weighing it up for a project, or want to talk to us about licensing or working together? Email hello@editor42.com — we read everything that comes in. For anything security-related, write to infosec@editor42.com instead (see the Security page), and for ordinary bugs the GitHub issue tracker is the fastest route.

Where to go next​

  • Motivation & Goals — why an MIT-licensed, security-maintained fork exists, and who it is for.
  • Auditing Editor42 — how the promises on this page can be checked rather than taken on trust.