Coffey LabsPress and brand kit
Everything you need to write about Coffey Labs: how to describe us, the facts, our logo and who to ask.
In our own words
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Coffey Labs builds open-source infrastructure software that is built to be run, not rented.
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Coffey Labs LLC is an Arizona company that builds, owns and maintains open-source infrastructure software: the inbuxa mail suite, ihasmail webmail, the ihasvpn WireGuard server and Cairn OBS log aggregation, plus the tools around them. Everything it makes runs on the user’s own hardware, is published in full under a copyleft license, and has no paid tier. Coffey Labs started in 2018 as LINUXexpert.org and was organized as an LLC in 2026. Learn more at coffeylabs.org.
- Legal name
- Coffey Labs LLC
- Organized
- October 5, 2026, in Arizona
- Roots
- LINUXexpert.org, since 2018
- Founder
- John Coffey
- Products
- inbuxa, ihasmail, ihasvpn, Cairn OBS
- Licenses
- Copyleft by default (AGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0)
- Source
- git.coffeylabs.org/coffey-labs
- Press contact
- press@coffeylabs.org
Logo and assets
The mark in two cuts, lockups for light and dark backgrounds, a link-preview image and the founder photo, with the short version of our usage rules.
- Don’t recolor, rotate or add effects to the mark.
- Each product has its own logo on its own site.
Founder
John Coffey
Founder, Coffey Labs
John Coffey is the founder of Coffey Labs. A platform engineer and open source evangelist, he builds the infrastructure software Coffey Labs publishes and writes about systems engineering and open source at jcoffey.dev. He helped write two Linux Foundation certification exams and sits on the advisory council for a third.
Coffey Labs organizes as Coffey Labs LLC
The company behind inbuxa, ihasmail, ihasvpn and Cairn OBS now owns the projects it maintains. Nothing changes for the people who run them.
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