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License ​

Maistik Forge Kit is proprietary software, owned exclusively by Maistik Studio. This page is a plain-language companion to the authoritative text in the LICENSE file included in every release archive. If the two ever disagree, the LICENSE file governs.

Not legal advice

This page explains the license; it is not a substitute for reading the full text, and it is not legal advice for your specific situation. For a licensing agreement, talk to us.

Repository access is not a license to use ​

You can read, clone, or fork this repository. That access, on its own, does not grant any right to run Forge, deploy it, or otherwise obtain its operational benefit. Maistik retains all ownership of the Software — the source code, the binary, the documentation, and everything derived from them — whether or not every individual file says so.

Productive use requires a separate, active paid license from Maistik. See Get Forge Kit for your organization.

What a license covers ​

Your license is defined by an Order Form — issued or accepted by Maistik, and confirmed by your purchase — which names your organisation, your seat count, your named developers, and your term. The LICENSE file supplies everything the Order Form does not.

Seats are per developer, and they are named, not concurrent. A seat is used by each person who runs forge, contractors included. Seats are not shared between people, but a seat can be reassigned when someone leaves.

Machines never consume a seat. Repositories, CI runners, build agents, pre-commit hooks, and autonomous runs are unlimited on every tier, as long as each person operating Forge holds a seat. Enforcing the harness everywhere is the point of it — charging per runner would be charging you to use the product properly.

One legal entity. Your license covers the company named on the Order Form, not its parent, subsidiaries, or affiliates.

Client work is permitted. You may run Forge on your clients' repositories. Your client does not acquire a license because you worked on their code; if they want to run Forge themselves, they need their own.

Outgrowing your seat count is a conversation, not a violation — tell us and we will amend the Order Form. Because repository access is granted per GitHub account, adding developers involves us either way.

At renewal we ask you to confirm your developer count in writing. That is a self-certification, not an audit. We will never ask for access to your systems, your repositories, or your records to verify it.

Cancellation ​

Licenses are billed annually and renew until you cancel. Cancel from the billing portal at any time; the license runs to the end of the term you have paid for, and repository access ends with it.

Enterprise licenses are executed under an Order Form, where cancellation terms are agreed as part of the negotiation.

Activation works offline ​

Your license key is a signed token you paste in once. Forge verifies the signature locally, on your machine, with no network call — it works air-gapped, and inside a CI runner with no egress. There is no license server, and Forge never checks in to ask permission to run.

Before a key expires, Forge warns you on every run for fourteen days, then keeps working through a seven-day grace period past the expiry date, and only then refuses. A renewal sitting in somebody's spam folder will not turn your pipeline red overnight.

Not shipped yet

Signed license keys are designed but not yet implemented. Today, access is controlled entirely through the private release repository. This page will stop carrying this notice when activation ships.

What the license does not permit ​

Without a separate written agreement granting the specific right, you may not:

  • Use it commercially. Offer Forge, or a product or service built on it, to a third party for a fee or other consideration.
  • Redistribute or sublicense it. Publish, distribute, or otherwise make the Software available to anyone else — modified or not, paid or free.
  • Compete with it. Use the Software, or anything you learned by studying it, to build, support, or assist a competing product or service.
  • Strip the notices. Remove or alter the license or any copyright and proprietary notices in the Software.

Using the Software outside these terms ends whatever limited rights this license grants, immediately and automatically.

No warranty ​

The Software is provided "as is," with no warranty of any kind. Maistik is not liable for any claim or damages arising from the Software or its use. See the full disclaimer in the LICENSE file shipped with your release.

Get a license ​

To license Forge Kit for your organization, or to ask a licensing question, book a call at maistik.studio.

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