Connbeat, consistent with the Elastic Beats framework, is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license - see LICENSE.md for details.
We warmly appreciate contributions, please feel free to open issues and/or send pull requests. We want connbeat to be and remain a proper open project, so we don't require copyright assignment: contributors will retain the copyright on the code they contributed.
With regards to Governance, connbeat is currently maintained by raboof and some colleages at StackState. This is a 'BDFN' (Benevolent Dictator for Now) model: when the community grows we're open to introducing a governance model that is less tied to the current few contributors, but we don't feel that need yet.