Non-commercial use
Personal, hobby, study, teaching, research and public-interest activities with no commercial purpose, including live production services.
OneVir licensing · OneQuill
Free for non-commercial use. Free before production.
OneVir is licensed by OneQuill under the Business Source License 1.1. Non-commercial use is free, including in production. Development, testing and evaluation are free for everyone when they do not serve live operation. Only commercial production use requires a paid licence.
Non-production use
Development, testing, CI, staging, evaluation, proofs of concept and demonstrations in any organisation, including commercial businesses, when they do not serve live operation.
Commercial production
Live business tools, commercial products, paid client services, shared business gateways or automated jobs supporting commercial activity.
Ask for a commercial licenceTwo questions decide the licence
Is the use commercial, and is it in production? A paid licence is required only when both answers are yes, while BUSL-1.1 applies.
Commercial production: paid licence
- A company's live internal tool or shared gateway
- A commercial product or paid client application
- A revenue-generating hosted service
- Automated jobs doing a business's actual work
Free use
- Non-commercial use, including production
- Development, testing, CI, staging and evaluation without live operation
- Proofs of concept and demonstrations without live operation
- One person's interactive workstation serving only them
Production means live operation: serving real requests or processing data for actual activities. A pilot or public demo that people rely on is production; non-commercial production remains free.
Non-commercial means the use does not support a revenue-generating business activity, a paid service or other commercial advantage. Business operations and internal business tools are commercial even if end users are not charged directly. An organisation's non-profit status alone does not determine the answer.
Examples
| Situation | Paid licence? |
|---|---|
| Your household's daily personal assistant | No: non-commercial |
| A charity's free public-interest service with no commercial purpose | No, including production |
| A university's non-commercial teaching or research service | No, including production |
| A developer's interactive coding assistant on a workstation serving only them | No: excluded from production |
| A commercial team's staging server, CI tests or evaluation without live operation | No: non-production |
| A consultant's demonstration without live operation | No: non-production |
| A company's live shared gateway or employee chatbot | Yes: commercial production |
| A commercial product or freelancer's paid client application | Yes: commercial production |
| A school's paid commercial service | Yes: commercial production |
Commercial licences
- Pricing on request. Contact sales@onequill.dev for a licence covering your commercial production use.
- No licence keys and no usage reporting. OneVir does not report usage to OneQuill. You count your own commercial production deployments and tell us when the number changes.
- Non-production stays free. Development, testing, staging and evaluation do not need a paid licence when they do not serve live operation.
- Products and hosted services. Discuss commercial production licensing for a product or paid service with OneQuill. Copying and redistribution rights remain those in the LICENSE.
- Charities, schools and universities. Non-commercial activities remain free in production. Paid services and other commercial activities need a licence when they run in production.
Open source after four years
Each version converts to the Apache License 2.0 four years after it is first published. Anyone can then use that version for any purpose, including commercial production. Newer versions keep these terms until their own change date.
Copies, models and other software
- Copies and changes. You may copy, modify and redistribute OneVir as long as the licence travels with every copy. The same free-use permissions and commercial production requirement apply to modified versions.
- Names and logos. The licence grants no rights in the OneVir or OneQuill names and logos.
- Model weights and third-party components keep their own licences, including llama.cpp (MIT). Optional FFmpeg downloads are GPL-licensed and run as a separate program. Cloud providers apply their own terms.
- Your data and outputs are yours. The licence gives OneQuill no rights in your prompts, documents or generated output.
This page summarises the licence. The licence text is binding. Last updated 2 October 2026.
Questions about licensing?
Talk to us before you go live.
Commercial licences and pricing come from the sales team; questions about the terms go to the company contact.