This page is really only relevant if you're planning on publicly releasing or selling code/programs that you create with the Make Controller. The Make Controller software environment is a fusion of four main bodies of code:
This software is all open source, and thus subject to the licensing of each module of code. All MakingThings specific code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, which is quite flexible for both open source and commercial projects. Be sure to acquaint yourself with the licenses for the main bodies of code in the Make Controller firmware codebase: