Community Edition is AGPL-3.0. The whole core, not a reduced one.
The license is decided: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. Three commitments hold around it: the real core ships, not a reduced one; TruSecure's proprietary private inference is never bundled into it; and the full license terms are published here, not buried in a click-through EULA.
Why AGPL, decided on substance
AGPL-3.0 is the strongest OSI-approved license against closed hosted derivatives: offering the software as a network service triggers the same source-sharing obligation as distributing it. Nobody can take the core, wrap it, and rent it back as a closed service without publishing their work. That is the exact protection a commercial-open-source project needs when its paid product is a hosted platform — and unlike BSL or Elastic-style source-available licenses, AGPL is genuinely open source from day one, so the word means what it says everywhere on this site.
The alternatives were weighed honestly. Apache 2.0 maximizes adoption but gives a cloud provider a free path to a closed competing service. BSL and the Elastic License block that path but are not open source until they convert — a promise instead of a fact. AGPL keeps the community promise and the commercial protection at the same time; it is the license Grafana, Nextcloud and Plausible run on for the same reason.
What it means for you
| You are | What you can do | What you owe |
|---|---|---|
| Self-hoster | Run, study, modify and extend the core on your own infrastructure, indefinitely, free | Nothing, as long as use stays internal |
| Service operator | Offer a service built on the core to others | Publish the source of your modifications to your users under AGPL-3.0 |
| Contributor | Contribute fixes and framework packs upstream | Contribution terms are published with the release, so dual-licensing stays possible |
| Enterprise with an AGPL exclusion policy | Use the full core under a commercial license instead | Talk to us — commercial terms are scoped in a conversation, not a price list |
The full AGPL-3.0 text ships with the code at release and is linked from this page the same day. Nothing else about the offer is conditioned on the license: the download page, the docs and the framework packs describe exactly what you get, and it will be verifiable against a running instance on day one.