# Commercial Use
AXTerminator is free for personal, research, educational, noncommercial
open-source, and free public-good projects with attribution.
Business use requires a written commercial license.
Examples that require a commercial license:
- A company uses AXTerminator internally for agent workflows, testing,
automation, demos, or operations.
- AXTerminator is embedded in a paid app, SDK, agent platform, SaaS, or
consulting deliverable.
- AXTerminator materially improves a product, service, or workflow that creates
revenue or business value.
- A commercial organization uses AXTerminator through a fork, wrapper, hosted
service, or private integration.
Commercial terms are flexible and can be structured as:
- Standard GitHub Sponsors commercial-use license.
- Attribution plus upstream collaboration.
- Revenue share.
- Fixed license fee.
- Support or integration contract.
- Strategic partnership.
## Standard commercial license
Companies can buy a standard commercial-use license through GitHub Sponsors:
- EUR 500/month per named project.
- Covers one company or organization using AXTerminator while sponsorship remains active.
- Covers routine internal business use, private forks, wrappers, private integrations, and shared internal services for that organization.
- Requires the sponsoring company to identify the licensed project, such as AXTerminator, in the sponsor note or by email.
- Does not include support, SLA, custom development, indemnity, trademark rights, sublicensing, resale, or the right to offer AXTerminator as a hosted or managed service to third parties unless separately agreed in writing.
The standard license is intended to be simple enough for normal team, department, or manager-level purchasing. It is not a blanket license for all Mikko Parkkola projects.
## Custom commercial terms
Custom terms are available for larger or unusual deployments, including:
- Multiple projects or portfolio-wide use.
- External-facing SaaS, hosted, managed-service, or resale use.
- Redistribution to customers, subsidiaries, contractors, or channel partners.
- High-scale deployments, regulated environments, procurement-specific contract terms, indemnity, support, SLA, or custom development.
- Strategic partnerships, revenue share, attribution plus upstream collaboration, or annual invoicing.
Sponsor link: https://github.com/sponsors/MikkoParkkola
Annual invoicing, procurement terms, custom terms, or resale rights can be agreed by email: mikko.parkkola@iki.fi