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Commercial Use & Licensing

This page explains how to purchase and use a commercial license for parts of this repository that are otherwise licensed under AGPLv3.

This page is informational and describes our commercial offering at a high level.

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  • Owner: RecSys maintainers (contact@recsys.app)
  • Last legal/doc review: 2026-02-08
  • Next review due: 2026-05-08
  • Order of precedence: signed Commercial License Agreement + signed Order Form > this page

Why a commercial license?

The AGPLv3 is designed for software used over a network. If you modify AGPL-covered code and provide network access to users, AGPLv3 requires offering those users access to the Corresponding Source of your modified version (see Section 13).

A commercial license allows you to use the covered components under alternative terms, enabling:

  • Internal or external deployment without AGPL source-offer obligations (subject to the commercial agreement)
  • Keeping modifications private
  • Using the software in proprietary stacks

What is covered?

Commercial licensing applies to the components that are AGPLv3 in this repository, including:

  • recsys-service (serving API; docker compose service name: api)
  • recsys-algo (algorithms used by the service)
  • recsys-pipelines (batch pipelines and artifact generation)

recsys-eval remains Apache-2.0.

What you get when you buy

A commercial purchase includes, at minimum:

  • A signed commercial license grant (agreement + order form)
  • Any entitlement token/file described in the Order Form (bookkeeping only, not DRM)
  • Access to commercial release artifacts when specified in the Order Form
  • Security/patch update access according to the purchased plan
  • Support terms as stated in the signed Order Form

See:

How to buy

Recommended low-friction flow:

  1. Choose a plan in Pricing
  2. For Commercial Evaluation/Starter/Growth, follow the standard self-serve path: Self-serve procurement

  3. Use direct contact only for Enterprise/custom terms (OEM/resale, custom legal/security/SLA commitments):

  4. Open a GitHub issue titled "Commercial licensing inquiry" (public), or

  5. Email: contact@recsys.app
  6. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/showcase/recsys-suite

Evaluation licenses

Evaluation terms for this project are documented in:

Commercial terms live in: