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Copyright 2023-2026 Braden Wong
Every package under packages/ and apps/ is licensed under
AGPL-3.0-or-later. Each declares it in its package.json, and most carry a
copy of the full text in their own LICENSE file. This file is the index.
For the reasoning, see docs/licensing/licensing-strategy.md and
FINANCIAL_SUSTAINABILITY.md.
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1. GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0-or-later)
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Everything Epicenter ships. The full text is in licenses/LICENSE-AGPL-3.0.
You're free to run, modify, and self-host any of it. If you distribute a
modified version, you share the changes back with the community.
For hosted infrastructure (apps/api, apps/self-host), AGPL section 13 extends
this to network use: running a modified version as a service counts as
distribution. For consumer apps that run locally on a user's machine, section
13 does not trigger, but the underlying distribution clause still applies:
anyone who forks and distributes a modified binary shares the changes back.
Packages:
packages/agent @epicenter/agent
packages/agent-protocol @epicenter/agent-protocol
packages/app-shell @epicenter/app-shell
packages/auth @epicenter/auth
packages/blobs @epicenter/blobs
packages/client @epicenter/client
packages/constants @epicenter/constants
packages/app @epicenter/app
packages/matter-core @epicenter/matter-core
packages/principal @epicenter/principal
packages/recorder @epicenter/recorder
packages/server @epicenter/server
packages/skills @epicenter/skills
packages/sqlite @epicenter/sqlite
packages/svelte @epicenter/svelte
packages/sync @epicenter/sync
packages/ui @epicenter/ui
packages/vite-config @epicenter/vite-config
Apps:
apps/api @epicenter/api
apps/epicenter @epicenter/epicenter
apps/honeycrisp @epicenter/honeycrisp
apps/landing @epicenter/landing
apps/local-books @epicenter/local-books
apps/local-mail @epicenter/local-mail
apps/matter @epicenter/matter
apps/posthog-reverse-proxy @epicenter/posthog-reverse-proxy
apps/reddit @epicenter/reddit
apps/self-host @epicenter/self-host
apps/skills skills
apps/sync-lab @epicenter/sync-lab
apps/vocab @epicenter/vocab
apps/whispering @epicenter/whispering
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2. MIT (historical, no longer a live tier)
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Until 2026-08, a subset of packages was MIT: an embeddable toolkit tier whose
dependency closure had to stay MIT. That tier is dissolved. It was maintained
for an external embedder who never arrived, and it had begun to distort
placement: code sat in the wrong package to stay on the permissive side of a
boundary nothing was crossing.
The direction of the change is the recoverable one. AGPL is the restrictive
default, and carving a package back out to MIT later is a decision that can be
made once there is a concrete embedder to make it for. The reverse mistake,
releasing under MIT and changing your mind, cannot be undone for versions
already published.
Which matters here, because some were: the following versions were published
to npm under the MIT License and REMAIN MIT for those versions, permanently.
The text they were released under is preserved at licenses/LICENSE-MIT.
- @epicenter/field 0.3.0
- @epicenter/identity 0.3.0
- @epicenter/sync 0.1.0, 0.3.0
- @epicenter/ui 0.1.0, 0.3.0
Versions published from this commit forward are AGPL-3.0-or-later.
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3. Proprietary (deferred tier, currently empty)
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No components are currently licensed under proprietary terms, and none are
planned. Revenue comes from hosting (Epicenter Cloud), not licensing.
This tier is documented as an escape hatch for one specific situation: a
paying customer requires a specific feature that AGPL self-hosting would
otherwise give away free. It will not be populated speculatively. The
empty-tier end-state is the goal.
If this tier is ever populated, modules will live in clearly delineated
subdirectories with their own LICENSE files declaring "All rights reserved"
terms, and will be listed here.
See docs/licensing/licensing-strategy.md for the conventions.
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If a package's per-package LICENSE file or package.json "license" field ever
conflicts with this index, the per-package files are authoritative. This index
is generated from them by reading every package.json, so a disagreement means
this file is stale and should be regenerated rather than hand-edited.