SourceBans++

Global admin, ban, and communication management system for the Source engine.

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Links

• Docs: https://sbpp.github.io/ (install, upgrade, configure, FAQ)
• Releases: https://github.com/sbpp/sourcebans-pp/releases
• Issues: https://github.com/sbpp/sourcebans-pp/issues
• Discord: https://discord.gg/tzqYqmAtF5
• AlliedModders thread: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=2303384

Install

Download the latest sourcebans-pp-X.Y.Z.webpanel-only.zip from 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.

Upgrade

Updating SourceBans++ covers the upgrade path for each major version boundary.

Contributing

Pull requests welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the guide, AGENTS.md for conventions and the local Docker dev stack, and ARCHITECTURE.md for the codebase tour.

PRs that touch the web panel (web/**) are covered by a Contributor License Agreement; see 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.

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. 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.
• SourceMod plugins (everything under game/addons/sourcemod/): GPLv3.
• Vendored third-party code (LightOpenID, TinyMCE, the SourceBans 1.4.x lineage, etc.) keeps its own license terms; see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt.