# Licensing

MOOTx01 uses a three-layer licensing model.

The ARIA interface specification is free for everyone. The MOOTx01 foundation libraries are published under the Apache License 2.0 through their public repositories. The MOOTx01 product core in this repository is source-available under FSL-1.1-ALv2, with Apache 2.0 as the future license. See [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE) for the controlling terms.

## Apache-Licensed Foundation

The foundation libraries are available under Apache 2.0 from:

* [`moot-core`](https://github.com/codedaptive/moot-core)
* [`moot-semantics`](https://github.com/codedaptive/moot-semantics)
* [`moot-system`](https://github.com/codedaptive/moot-system)
* [`moot-memory`](https://github.com/codedaptive/moot-memory)

Code obtained from those repositories carries the rights granted by Apache 2.0, including commercial and hosted use.

The product core in this repository includes GeniusLocusKit, NeuronKit, CognitionKit, VaultKit, the ARIA MCP server, the management console, and the installer.

## Free Use

A personal MOOT is an isolated MOOTx01 deployment running on one computer or synchronized across multiple computers used by one person.

Personal MOOTs are free for personal and professional use. A company may install a separate personal MOOT on every employee’s computer without paying a license fee. The company may use precompiled distributions or compile, sign, distribute, and maintain those installations itself.

A personal MOOT may be used by a person, local AI clients, local agents, or an agentic orchestration system running on the same computer. This remains free even when the computer performs work for an organization.

Building and sharing unpaid work is also free.

## Commercial License Required

A commercial license is required when the MOOTx01 product core is:

* connected to or embedded in a shared or multiuser enterprise system;
* connected to or embedded in an application, product, or service provided to the organization’s paying clients;
* offered as a hosted or managed service for third parties;
* used as part of an MSP or service-provider offering; or
* compiled into an application offered for sale.

A single-computer agentic deployment remains free. It requires a license only when it becomes part of a shared system or is provided to a paying client as a product or service.

## License Tiers

* Personal use: free.
* Separate personal MOOTs for employees: free.
* Single-computer agentic use: free.
* Building and sharing unpaid work: free.
* Mobile application: one-time $500 license per application for each major version of MOOTx01 used.
* Corporate internal system: $5,000 per major version of MOOTx01.
* Service provider or MSP: $5,000 annually.
* FedRAMP- or CMMC-aligned deployment: negotiated.

A commercial license covers the purchased major version and all point releases within that version. The next major version requires a new license unless the commercial agreement states otherwise. MOOTx01 major versions are defined as 1.x, 2.x, and so forth.

## Future License

Two years after a version of the product core is released, that version converts automatically to the Apache License 2.0 under the terms of [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE).

The foundation libraries are already available under Apache 2.0 and do not depend on this conversion period.

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*Current as of MOOTx01 stable/1.0.x.*