BSL 1.1
Source-available and self-hostable
The kageos core is currently licensed under Business Source License 1.1. You may inspect, modify, and deploy it within the grant. Each version converts to Apache License 2.0 three years after release.
CUSTOMER-FACING SOLUTIONS
Serve your customers without reselling the platform
Public forms, customer or supplier portals, reports, dashboards, APIs, notifications, automations, and support interfaces are allowed when all three conditions are met.
- 1.External users do not get general-purpose access to create or administer workspaces, Service Trees, directories, agents, apps, users, permissions, or platform configuration.
- 2.kageos itself is not packaged, marketed, or presented as the product available to external users.
- 3.The primary value comes from your own goods, services, content, data, or independently developed solution—not the kageos platform.
Four commercial license paths
Hosted Platform License
Managed Service Provider License
OEM and Embed License
Commercial On-Premises Distribution License
Allowed by default
- Personal learning, evaluation, and self-hosting.
- Internal production use by a company and Affiliates under common control.
- Deployment on infrastructure, cloud accounts, VPNs, intranets, or public domains you control.
- Qualifying forms, portals, reports, APIs, automations, and support interfaces for your customers.
- Independent commercial directories, apps, plugins, and integrations built with the Apache-2.0 SDK.
- Helping a customer deploy and integrate kageos in an environment controlled by that customer.
Commercial authorization required
- Commercial SaaS, hosted services, or online workspaces for external users.
- Operating or controlling kageos as an MSP or managed service for external customers.
- Reselling access, seats, workspaces, accounts, or tenant instances.
- White-label, OEM, embedded, rebranded, or packaged products for third-party production use.
- Competing platform access to workspaces, directory governance, agents, app runtime, permissions, or audit.
A simple test
You may use kageos to run your business. If you provide kageos workspaces, directory governance, agents, or other platform control surfaces as the product, obtain commercial authorization first.
This page is a plain-language summary, not legal advice. The LICENSE controls if anything here is inconsistent.