LICENSING

Free for people. Licensed for products.

The open-source VoxisLive engine ships under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 — $0 forever for personal, academic and non-profit use. Anything that makes money needs a commercial agreement.

Personal use — free

The GitHub build — including the full audio engine, VAD pipeline and translation core — is a complete working product under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 license. It costs $0 forever for:

  • Watching foreign-language content privately
  • University research projects and academic work
  • Non-profit and charity work
  • Personal demos and evaluation
  • Workplace productivity in a personal capacity (not company infrastructure)
  • Contributing to open-source forks — the fork must remain under PolyForm Noncommercial

Commercial use — custom license

Any revenue-generating deployment requires a commercial licensing agreement, including:

  • Selling VoxisLive bundled or standalone
  • Subscription services powered by VoxisLive
  • White-labeling for other brands
  • Enterprise / B2B tool embedding
  • Any deployment serving paying users, directly or indirectly monetized

Contact us for commercial terms.

Why PolyForm and not AGPL?

PolyForm Noncommercial differs from AGPLv3 by explicitly restricting monetization rather than merely requiring source disclosure. You can read, build and improve the code freely — you just can't sell it or build a paid service on it without a license.

Note: the managed Microsoft Store app and its prepaid minutes are a separate service governed by the Terms of Service.

FAQ

Common questions

01Can I use the free GitHub build at work?
Yes, in a personal capacity — using it yourself to follow a foreign call or video is fine. Deploying it as company infrastructure or in a product requires a commercial license.
02Can I fork the repository?
Yes, for noncommercial purposes — and the fork must remain under the PolyForm Noncommercial license.
03What counts as commercial use?
Anything monetized directly or indirectly: selling the app, bundling it, powering a subscription service, white-labeling, or serving paying users with it.