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# Commercial Policy

ota is open source under Apache 2.0 and governed as a maintainer-led open-core project. The
commercial model stays separate from the core codebase and should not blur the public contract.

## What is open

- the CLI
- the repo and workspace contracts
- the JSON output and docs
- the contract-first readiness model

## What is not accepted

- external code contributions

## What is reserved

- the `ota` name
- the logo and branding
- commercial packaging and enterprise offerings

See [brand-policy.md](brand-policy.md) for the brand usage boundary.
See [governance.md](governance.md) for the project governance model.

## Monetization boundary

Enterprise value should stay outside the open-core contract surface when possible. The core stays
small, deterministic, and broadly adoptable. Monetization belongs in separate services, private
modules, hosting, support, or commercial packaging built around the open core.