Revenue
Making money
Using BobNet to generate revenue, sell a service, power a paid product, monetize output, or support paid work requires a commercial license.
License model
BobNet Licensing
BobNet is source-available for noncommercial play, study, experimentation, and community building. Commercial use requires a paid BobNet Commercial License.
Free for noncommercial use
Paid for revenue use
No reskin resale
Community license
Free when you are learning, testing, and building noncommercially.
The public BobNet codebase is offered under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. That license allows noncommercial use while reserving commercial use for a separate license.
Allowed free uses
- use BobNet for personal, educational, research, hobby, and experimental work
- study the source code and learn how BobNet is put together
- modify BobNet for your own noncommercial use
- create, test, and share noncommercial Bob Nodes and Bob Nets
- share noncommercial examples, improvements, and community packages under the required notices
Official community license text: PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0.
Required Notice: Copyright Brian Derry.
Commercial boundary
If BobNet helps you make money, you need a commercial license.
Commercial use means more than direct resale. It includes using BobNet, Bob Nodes, Bob Nets, or a derivative work to create revenue, business value, client value, or operational advantage.
Business
Workflows
Using BobNet in a company, client project, contractor workflow, agency operation, or internal business automation requires a commercial license.
Hosted
Services
Hosting BobNet for others, selling access, bundling it into another product, or using it as a backend for a commercial service requires a commercial license.
Brand
No reskin resale
Reskinning, rebranding, white-labeling, repackaging, sublicensing, or redistributing BobNet as a commercial or competing product requires written permission.
Commercial license
Simple commercial pricing.
These terms are the intended commercial path for anyone using BobNet, Bob Nodes, Bob Nets, or derivative work for revenue-generating, business, hosted, client, resale, or operational commercial use.
Monthly
$99/month
Commercial use on a monthly plan. Good for active business usage, automation, client work, or hosted commercial experimentation.
Request Monthly LicenseAnnual
$1,000/year
Discounted annual commercial license for BobNet commercial use, business workflows, and revenue-generating deployments.
Request Annual LicenseCommercial terms
What the paid license is meant to cover.
The BobNet Commercial License is the permission path for commercial use that is not covered by the PolyForm Noncommercial community license.
Grant
Use BobNet commercially
A paid commercial license allows the licensed customer to use BobNet, Bob Nodes, Bob Nets, and derivative internal modifications for their own approved commercial workflows.
Limit
No resale without permission
The commercial license does not automatically grant the right to resell, sublicense, white-label, rebrand, host for third parties, or package BobNet as a competing product.
Brand
BobNet stays BobNet
BobNet, Bob Hub, BoB, and related marks may not be used to imply official status, partnership, endorsement, or ownership without written permission.
Plain English
Play with it for free. Profit from it with a license.
If you are learning, testing, building your own noncommercial nodes or nets, or exploring how BobNet works, you are in the community lane. If BobNet creates revenue, supports a business, serves clients, powers a product, or becomes part of a commercial workflow, you are in the commercial lane.
Short version
BobNet is not being offered as OSI-approved open source. It is source-available for noncommercial use under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0. Commercial use requires a paid BobNet Commercial License.
This page is a practical licensing notice, not legal advice. If any conflict exists between this summary and the official PolyForm license text, the official license text controls noncommercial community use.