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Why the AGPL

netweir is released under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. You can read it, run it, change it and ship it. What the AGPL asks in return is that software you build on it and give to other people, or run for them over a network, is shared under the same terms.

That keeps improvements flowing back to a project one person started, and it's why the browser profiles, the block signatures and the self-healing live in the open rather than behind an API.

When that doesn't work

Some companies can't take AGPL code into a product, whether by policy or by what they ship. For them a commercial licence is available: the same netweir, under terms that don't require sharing your source.

Tell us what you're building and roughly how you'd use netweir, and we'll reply with what a licence would look like. There's no price list here because it depends on the use.

Not sure which you need?

If you're scraping for your own analysis, a research project or an internal tool that nobody outside your organisation uses, the AGPL very likely covers you as it is. If you're unsure, ask: the form works for questions too.

Ask about a commercial licence

Every message goes to James Conway, who wrote netweir. Expect a reply within a few days.

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