License

Open-source license

feder8d source code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0-or-later). The full license text is available in LICENSE.md at the root of the source distribution and at gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt. As required by AGPL-3.0 §13, the complete corresponding source — including any modifications we run as a hosted service — is made available to users of the service on request. We do not operate a public source repository; instead, customers, users, and their auditors obtain the corresponding source (under NDA where commercially appropriate) by emailing legal@feder8d.com. This fully satisfies the AGPL §13 network-copyleft obligation, which requires offering source to users of the service — not public hosting.

Every source file carries an SPDX identifier:

SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later

What the AGPL gives you

• Run, study, modify, and redistribute the code.
• Use it commercially — including hosting it for your own users.
• No fees, no usage caps, no expiry.

What the AGPL requires of you

• Preserve copyright and license notices.
• If you modify the code and run it as a network service for users, you must make your modified source available to those users under AGPL-3.0 (the “network copyleft” clause — Section 13).
• Derivative works must also be licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later.

Commercial license

We offer a separate commercial license for organisations whose needs are incompatible with the AGPL — for example, building proprietary derivative SaaS products without an obligation to release modifications, or whose procurement policies prohibit AGPL.

The commercial license is bundled by default with the Dedicated Managed and Dedicated On-Prem plans. It is available standalone via contract; the COPYING-COMMERCIAL.md license offer is included in the source distribution. Contact legal@feder8d.com.

What is open source vs proprietary

The feder8d source distribution contains the entire core platform under AGPL:

• Libraries: feder8d-core, feder8d-rag, feder8d-models.
• Services: orchestrator, operator, tenant-api, workers, model-gateway.
• Apps: admin-ui, tenant-console, chat-app, widget, marketing (this site).
• Foundational connectors: Notion, Drive, Confluence, MCP.
• Deployment: Helm charts, Caddy config, observability dashboards.
• on-prem-packager tooling.

Certain enterprise features we build in future (for example advanced backup scheduling, compliance-evidence tooling, or premium connectors) may be proprietary and not distributed under the AGPL. Any such files carry a LicenseRef-feder8d-Commercial SPDX identifier.

Third-party model licenses

Every model we serve has its own license. The full list with attributions is at /legal/models.

Contributor License Agreement

External contributors sign a CLA via cla-assistant.io before their first merge. The CLA follows the Apache CLA pattern: copyright is assigned to feder8d with a grant-back to the contributor. This pattern is used by Plausible, Cal.com, and MongoDB, and lets us offer the commercial license alongside the AGPL.

Trademark

“feder8d” is a trademark. The code is freely usable under AGPL, but the name may not be used for competing services. See /legal/trademark.

Last updated 2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z.