Licence

Licence and commercial use

Before using or distributing LexiSuite, distinguish the announced pricing policy from the actual repository licence. The source is proprietary, not an open-source distribution.

Announced use and pricing (project READMEs, November 2026)

Intended use	Publicly described arrangement
Personal use	Free under the project's announced policy.
Private use	Free under the project's announced policy.
Educational use	Free under the project's announced policy.
Commercial use	US$100 per instance per year under the announced pricing policy.
Commercial support	Announced annual fee includes support and priority fixes for problems specific to the licensed hardware and setup.
Licence checks	The README describes an honor system, with no licence keys or automated usage checks.

For the announced commercial arrangement, count the instances actually deployed and budget US$100 for each instance each year. This is a description of intended pricing, not a grant of legal permission or a claim that a payment mechanism is currently operational.

Important inconsistency: repository LICENSE is stricter

The checked-in LICENSE governing both the Panel and OS source does not currently grant general free personal, private or educational use, or automatic commercial-use rights. Its first clause grants no right to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense or sell the software without a written agreement signed by the copyright holder. It permits limited private build/run activity for people explicitly given review access, solely during the allowed review and not in production. It also includes termination, warranty and liability terms.

Until the published policy and repository licence are reconciled, obtain a written grant from the copyright holder before relying on free-use or US$100 commercial-use announcements. An honor system and lack of a technical licence check do not override the repository's express terms. Do not interpret this wiki as replacing a signed agreement.

What is and is not granted by default

• Source availability does not mean open-source rights. The repository remains proprietary and its LICENSE reserves rights.
• Review access is narrow. Where the owner gives access for evaluation/security review, the current repository text allows private read/build/run only for that review and only for the authorized period; it expressly excludes production and redistribution.
• Commercial pricing is an announcement, not an automatic agreement. The public summary specifies a per-instance, per-year fee, not a per-user or per-device lifetime licence.
• Third-party components retain their own licences. Their notices and bundled licences still apply independently. In particular, the Linux kernel is under GPL-2.0; proprietary LexiSuite terms cannot replace applicable third-party rights/obligations.
• No warranty is promised by the checked-in proprietary licence; review the full current agreement when deciding whether the deployment is suitable for a critical environment.

Before a commercial deployment

1. Read the actual LICENSE distributed with the specific source or binary you have and all applicable third-party notices.
2. Obtain the copyright holder's signed written permission for the intended use. Have the signed terms clarify the scope, the announced US$100/instance/year fee, support/priority-fix commitments, renewal and distribution restrictions.
3. Inventory each instance you intend to use commercially. The announced honor system has no automated licence-key enforcement; accurate tracking is the operator's responsibility if those terms are agreed.
4. Do not distribute the proprietary source, modified builds or images unless the signed grant expressly permits it.
5. Separately assess the development image limitations and security model before production workloads.

Licence-related controls

Control or policy	Meaning
Commercial instance count	Budgeting unit of the announced fee: US$100 per instance per year; deployment rights still require an agreement under the current repository text.
Licence / Access administration in Panel	Records or reviews appliance/operator licensing state; it cannot itself change the copyright holder's legal grant.
No licence key / usage check	The described honor system does not substitute for permission or override the proprietary LICENSE.
Review access	Narrow, temporary private evaluation permission, not redistribution or production rights.

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