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Commercial Licensing

Hearthline is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). That means you can self-host it, modify it, and use it inside your own business — as long as any modifications you ship over a network are released under AGPL-3.0 as well.

For most teams that's exactly what you want. For some, it isn't.

When you need a commercial license

You need a separate commercial license from the author if any of these apply to you:

  • You want to resell, white-label, or offer Hearthline as a hosted service to your own customers, without open-sourcing your modifications.
  • You want to embed Hearthline (or a modified fork) inside a closed-source commercial product.
  • Your legal / compliance team will not accept AGPL-3.0 obligations on proprietary code that touches Hearthline.
  • You want a commercial support agreement, SLA, or indemnification.
  • You want done-for-you setup: I'll deploy, configure Vapi + Twilio, tune Anna's prompt for your trade, and hand you a working system.

How to get one

Email contact@codewithmuh.com with:

  1. Your company name and the trade you operate in (HVAC, plumbing, etc.).
  2. Whether you want: (a) a commercial license only, (b) done-for-you setup, or (c) both.
  3. Rough scale — how many calls per month, how many techs, single or multi location.

You'll get a quote within 2 business days.

You can also book a 30-minute call directly: https://calendly.com/contact-codewithmuh/30min

What stays free under AGPL-3.0

  • Self-hosting Hearthline for your own internal use, including for paying customers, as long as any changes you make are released under AGPL-3.0.
  • Forking, studying, modifying, and learning from the code.
  • Using Hearthline in coursework, research, demos, and YouTube tutorials.
  • Contributing PRs back to the upstream repo (please do).

Why dual-licensed

Hearthline is built and maintained by Muhammad Rashid (@codewithmuh) as a one-person open-source project. Commercial licenses fund continued development, keep the public repo healthy, and let me say yes to feature work that benefits the whole community.

If you're using Hearthline and it's working for you, the most useful thing you can do is say so publicly (a tweet, a LinkedIn post, a star on the repo). That's how more people find it, and how this stays sustainable.

— Muhammad Rashid