License

Overview

The public LogisticsX source is available on GitHub under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 . Noncommercial use is free with no time limit.

Commercial use, such as running LogisticsX in a for-profit company, hosting it for others, or selling a product built on it, needs a commercial license. Every commercial license includes the closed-source modules. This page is a summary. The signed agreement governs.

The hosted service on this site is a separate product with its own plans . You do not need a source license to subscribe to it.

License Types

Internal Use

A carrier, broker, or logistics company running LogisticsX for its own operations.

You get: Run any number of instances for one legal entity.
Not included: Offering the product to third parties.

Hosted / Reseller

A company that hosts LogisticsX and sells access to other businesses.

You get: Run it as a service for up to the number of tenants written into the key.
Not included: Redistributing the source or sublicensing it.

Perpetual Source

A company that forks LogisticsX and owns its copy.

You get: A perpetual right to use and modify the source as of the purchase date.
Not included: Updates after the first year, unless the update plan is paid.

Pricing

Starting points. Volume, term length, and support needs change the quote.

License	Model	Starts at
Internal Use	Per truck per month, billed yearly	$4 per truck per month, minimum $3,000 per year
Hosted / Reseller	Flat yearly fee by tenant count	$10,000 per year for up to 25 tenants, $25,000 for up to 100, $50,000 unlimited
Perpetual Source	One-time fee plus optional updates	$25,000 once, updates at 25% of the fee per year
Support add-on	Yearly, email, 3 business day response	$2,500 per year
Name license	Yearly, permits use of the LogisticsX name and logo	$1,500 per year

Hosted / Reseller keys carry the tenant cap. Growing past it means moving to the next band; the difference is charged for the rest of the year and a new key is issued. The daily heartbeat reports the tenant count, so no revenue reporting is needed.

Common Terms

No sublicensing or resale of the source code.
The LogisticsX name and logo are not included. A reseller must rebrand unless they buy the name license.
No warranty. Liability is capped at the fees paid in the previous 12 months.
Support is a separate add-on.
Hosted / Reseller: the tenant count reported by the heartbeat must stay within the cap in the key. The author may verify it once a year with 30 days notice.
The licensee agrees not to remove the license check, the unlicensed-use notice, or the instance heartbeat.
Unpaid fees end the commercial license 30 days after written notice. Only the public license rights remain, and they exclude the closed-source modules.

License Key and Heartbeat

A license key is a signed token issued for one legal entity. A SuperAdmin installs it on the admin portal License page, or the operator sets the License__Key environment variable. Until a valid key is installed, every portal shows a one-line unlicensed-use notice. Nothing else changes: no feature is locked, and an expired key only brings the notice back.

Once a day each deployment posts a small report to the author. It contains exactly these fields:

a random instance id generated on first start
the server hostname
the product version
the license key id and licensee name, when a valid key is installed
the number of tenants

No tenant data, user data, or business data is sent. Noncommercial users can turn the heartbeat off with License__HeartbeatEnabled=false . Under a commercial license it stays on.

Bypassing the key check, the notice, or the heartbeat grants no commercial rights and counts as willful infringement.

How to Buy

Email suxrobgm@gmail.com with your company name, the license type, and your fleet or tenant count. You receive a quote, an agreement to sign, and an invoice. The key is issued when the first payment clears.

The repository holds the public license as LICENSE and these commercial terms as COMMERCIAL-LICENSE.md .

Source License