# Licensing

reminal is **dual-licensed**: [AGPL-3.0](LICENSE) for open-source use, or a
commercial license when the AGPL doesn't work for you.

Most people — including most companies — need nothing from this page beyond the
first section.

## Do you need a commercial license?

**Almost certainly not**, if you are:

- an individual using reminal, for anything, including paid work;
- a company **running reminal internally**, unmodified — on laptops, servers,
  build machines, a fleet of Macs;
- evaluating it, or running it in production, without changing the source.

The AGPL's much-discussed §13 obligation attaches to **modified** versions made
available to others over a network. Running the released binaries inside your
company is not that. Keep the copyright notices intact and you are done — no
license to buy, no email to send.

**You do need one** if you want to:

- **embed reminal in a product you distribute** without releasing that product's
  source under the AGPL;
- **run a modified reminal as a service** for other people, without publishing
  your modifications;
- receive it under **different warranty, indemnity, or support terms** than the
  AGPL's "as is".

A commercial license removes the copyleft obligations for these cases.

## What a commercial license costs

There are two, because two quite different things get asked for.

### Policy license — $3,000/year

For companies that only **run reminal internally** but whose policy forbids
AGPL dependencies outright, regardless of how they are used. Nothing is being
embedded or redistributed; what's needed is a license that isn't the AGPL, so
the tool your engineers already want stops being blocked.

Covers unlimited machines within one company. Deliberately priced to be a
signature rather than a procurement exercise.

### Embedding & hosted-service license — from $25,000/year

For shipping reminal inside a product you distribute, or running a modified
reminal as a service for others. Scaled to the deployment, and to the warranty,
indemnity and support terms you need attached.

A floor rather than a quote: the terms that matter here differ enough per
company that a fixed price list would be wrong for nearly everyone.

## Getting one

> Harshal Gajjar — `mail@harshalgajjar.com`

Tell me what you are building and how reminal fits into it. A one-paragraph
description is usually enough to quote against.

## Why we can offer both

reminal's copyright is held by a single holder, and every external contribution
is accepted under a Contributor License Agreement (see [`CLA.md`](CLA.md)) that
grants the copyright holder the rights needed to license the project under both
the AGPL and commercial terms. This is what makes the dual-licensing model
possible.

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*This document is an informational summary, not legal advice, and the summary of
the AGPL above does not replace or modify the actual [`LICENSE`](LICENSE) text,
which governs. If your situation is close to the line, read §13 and talk to your
own counsel.*