Commercial Use FAQ
When do I need to pay for a commercial license? Concrete examples under the
Global Executive Source-Available License v1.0.
This page is non-bindingand is here to help you answer the question "do I owe anyone a fee for what I'm doing?" in under a minute. The canonical rules live in the LICENSEfile shipped with the source and in Section 6 of our Terms of Service. Where those documents conflict with anything here, they control.
I'm a freelancer using it to automate my own work.
FREEYou're not redistributing the Software and you're not selling access to anyone else. Use it, modify it, keep your changes private — no license fee required.
I'm an agency and I use it inside a project I'm delivering for one client.
FREEFree, as long as the setup looks like internal tooling the agency uses while serving the client, i.e.:
- The Software isn't delivered to the client as a standalone product they can run without you.
- The client isn't charged specifically for access to the Software or a Software-as-a-Service tier built on it.
- It stays in a one-to-one relationship — you're not reselling the same deployment to many paying parties.
My company uses it internally for our own employees. No external customers touch it.
FREEFree. Section 1(b) of the license covers internal, non-revenue-generating organisational use. Doesn't matter how big the company is.
I build an internal tool that uses it behind the scenes and generates revenue indirectly (e.g., a sales-prospecting bot).
FREEFree — as long as the Software itself is never sold, sublicensed, or exposed as a paid product or paid API to anyone outside your organisation. The Software is a cost-of-goods ingredient, not the product you sell.
I fork it, add features, and share my fork publicly on GitHub for free.
FREEFree under Section 1(c), as long as you (i) release your fork under the same license, (ii) keep the copyright notice and attribution, and (iii) don't charge anyone for access to the fork.
I re-brand it, wrap my own UI around it, and charge end-users a monthly subscription.
NEEDS PAID LICENSEThat's classic resale / paid SaaS, covered by Section 2(a)–(c). Needs a paid commercial license before launch.
I host it on a VPS and let one paying customer log in and use it.
NEEDS PAID LICENSEStill paid. "One paying customer" is still offering the Software as a hosted service for a paying userunder Section 2(c). The number of users isn't the test — whether anyone is paying for access is.
I want to embed it into my paid Chrome extension / paid desktop app / paid product.
NEEDS PAID LICENSENeeds a paid commercial license under Section 2(b). If the product that ends up in front of end users costs money, and the Software is a substantial part of it, you need a license.
I want to train an AI / build a benchmark / evaluate a competing agent using data produced or collected by this Software.
NEEDS PAID LICENSENeeds a separate written license— see Section 3(e) of the LICENSE. This applies even if your downstream use is non-commercial.
I'm not sure which category I fall into.
ASK USEmail admin@32d.one with a short description of your use case. We answer quickly, and most "unsure" cases turn out to be free. Where a commercial license is needed, pricing scales with the size of the deployment (seats, end-users, or revenue of the offering) and starts well below the cost of rebuilding the Software from scratch.
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