Licenses and Contributions
Fluxify's code is under two licenses. Which one applies depends only on where the code lives.
| Code | License | Short version |
|---|---|---|
Any folder named ee, and any file with .ee. in its name (like connector.ee.ts) | Fluxify Enterprise Edition License | Source-available. Free for personal, education, and non-profit use. Commercial use needs a license key. |
| Everything else | Apache License 2.0 | Open source. Free for any use, including commercial. |
Who can use what for free
| You are… | Community features | Enterprise features |
|---|---|---|
| An individual, on a personal project | ✅ Free | ✅ Free with LICENSE_KEY=NON_COMMERCIAL |
| A school, university, or student | ✅ Free | ✅ Free with LICENSE_KEY=NON_COMMERCIAL |
| A registered non-profit | ✅ Free | ✅ Free with LICENSE_KEY=NON_COMMERCIAL |
| A business, or anyone earning money from the deployment | ✅ Free | 🔑 Needs a license key |
Running Fluxify commercially without a key
You can run all of Fluxify commercially at no cost as long as the Enterprise features are off. Leave LICENSE_KEY unset and you are on the Community edition, which is entirely Apache 2.0.
Everyone may read, modify, and test the Enterprise code for free. The license key only matters once you use Enterprise features for real work. See Editions for how to set it.
What the Enterprise license does not allow
- Removing or bypassing the license check.
- Reselling the Enterprise features, or offering them to others as a hosted service.
- Removing copyright or license notices.
Contributing
Every contribution is covered by the Fluxify Contributor License Agreement. There is nothing to sign: opening a pull request is your acceptance.
| Contributing to Apache 2.0 code | Contributing to Enterprise code | |
|---|---|---|
| You keep copyright of your work | ✅ | ✅ |
| Your change is released as open source | ✅ Apache 2.0 | ❌ Enterprise license |
| Fluxify may use, relicense, and sell your change without asking or paying you | ✅ | ✅ |
Contributing to Enterprise code
When you change a file in an ee folder or a .ee. file, your change becomes part of the Enterprise edition. Fluxify's owner, and any company later formed to run Fluxify, gets full rights to use and sell it, without asking you and without paying you. If you'd rather your work stay open source, keep it outside Enterprise code.
The full texts are in the repository: LICENSE, LICENSE_EE, and CLA.md.