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TECHNICAL — LICENSING

Everything in one subscription. Clear on what you own.

EmberNet is a Platform as a Service. One monthly fee covers the platform, the App Store, and the apps in it. Here's exactly what that means for licensing.

01 — EMBERNET AS A PAAS

What is Platform as a Service, and why does it matter?

Platform as a Service means you subscribe to a fully managed environment rather than buying, installing, and maintaining software yourself. EmberNet handles the operating system, runtime, updates, security patches, and the App Store. All this for a single low monthly cost.

You don't manage servers. You don't negotiate individual software licenses for every tool you deploy. You subscribe to EmberNet, and everything runs. That's the point.

See what's included in each plan →
02 — EMBERNET BSL 1.1

Apps built by Fireball Industries: source-available, platform-bound

Everything Fireball Industries develops internally, EmberOPS modules, add-ons, screens, and orchestration code, ships under the Business Source License 1.1.

  • You can read the source. It's available at git.embernet.ai with every install.
  • You can run it for internal business operations and evaluation.
  • You cannot redistribute it or run it outside the EmberNet platform in production without a separate commercial agreement.
  • It converts to GPL-3.0 automatically four years after each version's release.

The restriction is narrow: don't redistribute it, and keep it on EmberNet. That's the whole constraint.

03 — VENDOR APPS

Commercially supported apps from vendors you already know

The EmberNet App Store includes apps from established industrial software vendors, Inductive Automation (Ignition), CODESYS, SORBA, and others. These ship under their own commercial licenses.

If you already have a license agreement with a vendor, it applies. If you don't, reach out to sales, we'll connect you. These are products with their own support organizations, documentation, and commercial terms.

Talk to sales about vendor app licensing →
04 — OPEN SOURCE APPS

Open source apps under their own licenses

Many App Store apps are unmodified open source projects, Node-RED, Grafana, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Mosquitto, Prometheus, and others. These ship exactly as their upstream projects release them, under their own licenses.

  • Apache 2.0, Node-RED, Prometheus, Alert Manager, GoRules Engine
  • AGPL-3.0, Grafana, Grafana Loki
  • MIT, Telegraf, ChirpStack
  • PostgreSQL License, PostgreSQL (permissive, similar to MIT)
  • EPL-2.0, Mosquitto

Each app package includes its license file. Fireball Industries does not modify these projects, so no additional restrictions apply beyond each project's own terms.

Licensing questions?

For commercial agreements, vendor app access, or anything outside standard subscription terms, talk to us.