---
title: About
description: Information about the Pterodactyl project team, sponsors, and licensing
---

## Core Project Team

| Name                                     | Discord Name    | Primary Role                        |
| ---------------------------------------- | --------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| [Dane Everitt](https://daneeveritt.com/) | `.tacticalfish` | Founder & Former Project Maintainer |
| [Matthew Penner](https://matthewp.io/)   | `matthewp`      | Project Maintainer                  |
| Stepan Fedotov                           | `trixter`       | WHMCS Module Maintainer             |
| Michael Parker                           | `parkervcp`     | Egg Developer, Docker Integration   |

Members of the project team have a red username in our Discord server.

## Community Team

Pterodactyl would not be as successful as it is today without the help of our fantastic community support team. These
members can be found in our Discord server and are distinguished with a yellow username.

## Sponsors

The following companies help fund Pterodactyl's development. [Interested in becoming a sponsor?](https://github.com/sponsors/matthewpi)

| Company                                                      | About                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [**Aussie Server Hosts**](https://aussieserverhosts.com/)    | No frills Australian Owned and operated High Performance Server hosting for some of the most demanding games serving Australia and New Zealand.                                                                                                                       |
| [**CodeNode LLC**](https://codenode.gg/)                     | Looking for simplicity? Well, look no further! CodeNode has got you covered with everything you need at the rock-bottom price of $1.75 per GB, including dedicated IPs in Dallas, Texas, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. We're not just good, we're the best in the game! |
| [**BisectHosting**](https://www.bisecthosting.com/)          | BisectHosting provides Minecraft, Valheim and other server hosting services with the highest reliability and lightning fast support since 2012.                                                                                                                       |
| [**MineStrator**](https://minestrator.com/)                  | Looking for the most highend French hosting company for your minecraft server? More than 24,000 members on our discord trust us. Give us a try!                                                                                                                       |
| [**HostEZ**](https://hostez.io)                              | US & EU Rust & Minecraft Hosting. DDoS Protected bare metal, VPS and colocation with low latency, high uptime and maximum availability. EZ!                                                                                                                           |
| [**Blueprint**](https://blueprint.zip/?pterodactyl=true)     | Create and install Pterodactyl addons and themes with the growing Blueprint framework - the package-manager for Pterodactyl. Use multiple modifications at once without worrying about conflicts and make use of the large extension ecosystem.                       |
| [**indifferent broccoli**](https://indifferentbroccoli.com/) | indifferent broccoli is a game server hosting and rental company. With us, you get top-notch computer power for your gaming sessions. We destroy lag, latency, and complexity--letting you focus on the fun stuff.                                                    |

## License

Pterodactyl® Copyright © 2015 Dane Everitt and contributors.

Code released under the [MIT License](https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel/blob/1.0-develop/LICENSE.md).

## Release Signing

Previously, releases were signed by a GPG key.  All recent releases are now signed using an SSH signing key.

This key is used to sign release tags and commits created by Matthew Penner.  This key was first used to sign
`v1.10.2` for the Panel and `v1.7.1` for Wings and has been used ever since.

```text
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIKL873MsP1OFfffNC8n9WcVuOXOSW65/q26MIzib0K9k
```
