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r7 License Summary

r7 is licensed under the Business Source License (BSL) 1.1, which converts to the open-source Apache License 2.0 after 3 years.

This summary is provided for convenience only and is not part of the legal license. Please refer to the full LICENSE.md for binding terms.

Community Use

Free for:

  • Individuals
  • Hobby projects
  • Startups
  • Internal company use under $25M annual revenue or equivalent annual operating budget
  • Commercial Service Restriction: Offering r7 as a commercial hosted service, SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS to third parties is not permitted under Community Use if it provides r7-like gateway functionality as a managed service. This always requires a commercial license, regardless of revenue.

Enterprise Use

Organizations above $25M annual revenue require a commercial license for production use of r7.

If your organization exceeds this threshold, or if you plan to build a managed gateway service on top of r7, please visit r7.ethlo.com for commercial licensing details.

Future Open Source

Each release of r7 will convert to the Apache License 2.0 exactly 3 years after its publication date.