TreeOS

This is built for the people, and it is meant to be free.

TreeOS is open source. You can run it, study it, change it, and share it at no cost. The terms below exist to keep it that way: to make sure the seed stays open for everyone, even when others build on it. The commercial license is only for those who want to close the seed's source and take it in a private direction others cannot see. For everyone else, it is free, and it stays free.

License

Licensing

The TreeOS seed is dual licensed. Free and open under the AGPL-3.0 by default, with a separate commercial license for those who cannot meet its terms.

What this covers

The license below applies to the seed: the code under reality/seed/ that defines what TreeOS is. It does not cover the rest of the project. Extensions, roleFlows, clones, portals (browsers), and work you replicate or post to Horizon are your own, under your own terms. The seed is the sovereign core, and the licensing here is about the seed and nothing more.

AGPL-3.0, the free and open default

You are free to use, modify, fork, and distribute the seed at no cost. One obligation comes with it: if you run a modified seed over a network (a hosted reality, a SaaS, an API, anything network accessible), you must make your modified seed source available to its users under the same license.

For most people, the AGPL is all they ever need. It keeps the seed open and ensures hosted forks stay open too.

The commercial license

There is only one reason to need this license: you want to close the seed's source and take it in a private direction others cannot see. The AGPL keeps every hosted or distributed fork of the seed open; the commercial license is the way to step outside that and keep your changes private. Concretely, you would choose it to:

  • Host TreeOS realities as a service for your customers without the obligation to publish your modified seed source.
  • Build closed-source products or internal tools on top of the seed.
  • Keep your seed modifications private.
  • Get priority support, security patches, or custom development.

The commercial license does not withhold any code. You receive the same seed source as the public repository, plus a separate agreement that supersedes the AGPL for your usage. The difference is the legal permissions, not the code.

Read the full text

The complete AGPL-3.0 text, with the seed preamble, lives in the repository:

seed/LICENSE on GitHub

Get a commercial license

Interested in a commercial license, or unsure which one applies to you? Terms and pricing are quoted per engagement. Write to taborgreat@gmail.com.