Licensing
bitwerk is source-available. Who pays depends on how you use it:
| Use | Licence |
|---|---|
| At home, personal and non-commercial | Free, no subscription |
| Non-commercial research and teaching at a school, university or research institution | Free licence on request |
| A business or organization, or a commercial venue or event: studio, shop, listening room, bar, club, café, event | Commercial licence |
| Selling, renting or leasing bitwerk, alone or preinstalled on hardware | Commercial licence |
| Offering bitwerk as a hosted service, or paid installation and support for others | Commercial licence |
Integrators and dealers who want to install bitwerk for their customers: talk to us about a licence that covers your installations.
What no licence covers
Section titled “What no licence covers”bitwerk may not be used to collect training data for or train a model that generates music, voices, lyrics, images or video, to make voice clones or deepfakes of performers, or to present generated content as an artist’s work. No licence, personal or commercial, allows it. AI and artists.
The fine print
Section titled “The fine print”The software is released under the Business Source License 1.1 with the terms above. Four years after its release, each version becomes available under the GNU AGPL 3.0 or later. The protocol that lets other devices and apps talk to bitwerk is open (MIT or Apache 2.0). The name and logo of bitwerk are trademarks and not covered by these licences.
Get a commercial licence
Tell us where and how you use bitwerk, and how many rooms. We reply with a quote.