License

SpinUP is source-available under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0.

What you can do without paying

• Personal projects, hobbies, side projects.
• Research, experiments, testing.
• Non-commercial organizations: charities, educational institutions, public research bodies, government.
• Evaluation and internal non-production tools within a company.

What requires a commercial license

• Serving production workloads that generate revenue.
• Hosting SpinUP as a managed service for third parties.
• Bundling SpinUP into a commercial product.
• Any use where the primary purpose is commercial gain.

Contact michal@jaskolski.pro for commercial licensing.

Definitions

PolyForm defines the terms carefully. The short version:

• Noncommercial purpose — any use that isn't commercial (see below).
• Personal use — research, experiment, testing, personal study, private entertainment, hobbies, amateur pursuits, or religious observance without any anticipated commercial application.
• Noncommercial organization — charitable, educational, public research, public safety/health, environmental protection, or government institutions, regardless of funding source.

Full license text: LICENSE at the repo root.

Third-party dependencies

SpinUP includes open-source dependencies under permissive licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD variants, ISC, MPL 2.0, Unicode-3.0, and similar). Attribution is preserved in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md files inside each subproject:

• services/control-plane/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md
• services/worker/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md
• apps/ui/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md
• docs/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md

Contributing

Contributions are accepted under the Contributor License Agreement. By opening a pull request you agree to those terms.

Not legal advice

This page summarizes the license for convenience. If you're uncertain whether your intended use falls under the free tier or requires a commercial license, ask.