The source is public. Running it in production is what requires a licence.
No licence needed, no registration, nothing to sign.
Per deployment, excluding VAT. Most teams need one.
Tell us the shape of it and we will quote.
Written plainly, including what it does not promise.
The right to run one production deployment for the term. Every update and security fix published during it. Best-effort support by email, usually a reply within a few working days.
No uptime or response-time guarantee, no on-call, no custom development, no indemnity. This is a small team and we would rather tell you that up front than write an SLA we cannot honour.
Everything published under the Business Source License 1.1: sovereign-mcp-gateway, sovereign-mcp, sovereign-shield, intentshield and logicshield. One licence covers the set. sovereign-mcp-audit is deliberately not among them. It is Apache 2.0 and needs no licence for any use, commercial or otherwise, because a tool that tells you what your agents can reach is worth more unrestricted than licensed.
Each released version converts to the Apache License 2.0 four years after it was published. That is a term of the licence, not a promise we can withdraw. If we disappear, what you are running becomes permissively licensed on a date you can look up today.
Ask. If you are evaluating, building against it, or running it for a handful of people, you do not. Email contact@sovereign-shield.net and describe what you are doing. A straight answer costs nothing.
Identical across all five packages. This is the header of every LICENSE file.
SovereignShieldBusiness Source License 1.1
Licensor: Mattijs Moens
Licensed Work: sovereign-mcp-gateway
Additional Use Grant: You may make production use of the Licensed Work,
without a commercial license, as an individual, or as
an organisation of four or fewer people.
Change Date: 2030-08-22
Change License: Apache License, Version 2.0Each package carries its own Change Date, four years after that package's first release: sovereign-mcp 2030-03-20, sovereign-shield and intentshield 2030-03-09, logicshield 2030-03-29. The terms are unmodified BSL 1.1.
Source-available, not OSI open source. You can read it, modify it, fork it and run it for anything except commercial production use. We say this plainly rather than stretching the term.
Under a permissive licence anyone can run this as a paid service and contribute nothing back. BSL keeps the source open to everyone while keeping the commercial rights with the people maintaining it, and it converts to Apache 2.0 on a fixed date regardless.
Running it in the path of real traffic, for a real workload, at an organisation of five or more people. Staging, CI and evaluation do not count, however long you take.
Yes, indefinitely, without asking. That is the point of the free tier. Nothing is time-limited and no feature is held back.
No. Prices are quoted excluding VAT. Belgian customers are charged 21%. Businesses elsewhere in the EU with a valid VAT number are invoiced under the reverse-charge procedure and pay no Belgian VAT. Customers outside the EU are outside its scope. Your invoice states the treatment that applies together with the supplier's VAT number.
There is nothing to trial. The software is identical. The licence is permission to run it commercially, not a different build.
The source is public and the test suites run in CI on every commit. Point your reviewers at the repositories. If you need something signed, say so in your first email.
One email. Tell us what you are running and where, and we will send terms and an invoice.
contact@sovereign-shield.net