Dual-licensed.
The default license is GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later. For organisations that cannot accept AGPL's obligations, Amken LLC offers commercial tiers at /pricing with terms tailored to proprietary and embedded use. Self-serve tiers issue a signed license certificate by email within minutes; you can verify any certificate at /license/verify.
Well suited to open-source projects, academic use, evaluation, and personal projects. You may use, modify, and redistribute ticktrace under the AGPL's terms, including the network-use share-alike clause.
Full text on GitHub ↗For proprietary firmware, sealed-source distribution, network services that shouldn't carry AGPL obligations, or for indemnification / priority support / functional-safety artifacts.
Commercial license details ↗// when you may need a commercial license
- You incorporate ticktrace into a proprietary product without releasing your own source under AGPL.
- You distribute, sell, or deploy hardware that includes ticktrace as firmware.
- You provide a network service that uses ticktrace and don't want to release that service's source.
- You bundle ticktrace into your own SDK, toolchain, or development kit for end customers.
- Your organisation has an internal policy prohibiting AGPL-licensed software.
- You require indemnification, warranty, functional-safety documentation, or priority support beyond what the open-source license provides.
// trademark
ticktrace™ is a trademark of Amken LLC. The ticktrace name and logo may be used in unmodified references and in commercial licensing contexts; modified forks should use a different name to avoid confusion.
// contact
Commercial licensing inquiries, indemnification questions, and trademark usage requests go through Amken LLC ↗.