Licenses for nyssr.net

nyssr.net is developed and distributed as proprietary, source-available software. It is not released under an OSI-approved open-source license.

The licensing model keeps experimentation accessible while making production and commercial use explicit and auditable. Free use means that the license fee is zero; it does not remove the applicable license conditions.

Community license

The free Community License covers:

• private projects and personal learning;
• academic teaching and research;
• non-commercial demonstrations and evaluation;
• development, testing, and staging;
• open-source projects that do not use nyssr.net as part of a commercial offering.

It does not permit commercial production use, selling or redistributing nyssr.net, embedding it in a paid product, or operating it as part of a commercial service without a separate commercial agreement.

Commercial node license

Commercial use is licensed per concurrently running productive runtime instance. Each such instance is one productive node. A standard commercial license covers one productive node for a defined annual license period.

Development, test, and staging instances do not count as licensed productive nodes. High-availability, failover, autoscaling, and larger deployments may require an Enterprise or Cluster License.

The price is not fixed yet. No commercial licenses have been sold, and no binding price list is currently being published. Commercial pilot terms will be agreed individually based on the number of productive nodes, deployment model, support requirements, and intended use.

An active license entitles the licensee to the new versions and regular support defined by the applicable agreement. After expiration, the last authorized version may remain in use according to the agreement, but there is no entitlement to new releases or support unless the license is renewed.

Please contact sales@sillysky.net if you want to discuss a pilot or commercial deployment.

Embedded, OEM, and hosted use

A separate agreement is required when nyssr.net is:

• embedded into a product that is sold to customers;
• redistributed as part of a commercial software package;
• used to provide a hosted or SaaS service;
• deployed by an operator across a larger fleet of nodes;
• bundled with professional support, integration, or maintenance.

These cases require clear terms for redistribution, customer access, support, updates, and node counting.

Downloads and usage rights

Downloads may remain publicly accessible. The ability to download a release does not itself grant permission for commercial production use. Commercial usage rights are defined by the applicable license agreement, not by an artificial download lock.

Source availability and continuity

Source availability is not the same as open-source licensing. Source code may be made available under a separate confidentiality and continuity arrangement without granting general rights to modify, redistribute, or publish it.

For larger customers, a future agreement may include source-code escrow or a comparable business-continuity mechanism. The conditions would be negotiated in writing and would not be implied by a standard node license.

Current status

This page describes the approved licensing framework, but not a finalized price list or legal contract. Before the first sale, the following documents must be prepared and legally reviewed:

• the Community License;
• the Commercial Node License;
• an OEM, embedded, and hosted-use addendum;
• support and update terms;
• privacy terms for license verification.

Until those documents are published, commercial terms are agreed individually. License verification is not active yet; initial pilot licenses will be confirmed manually by email.