# Commercial licensing

RHA Wrapper is released under the **PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0** (see
[LICENSE](LICENSE)). That license is deliberately generous: it lets you use,
modify, self-host, and build on RHA Wrapper for **almost any purpose, free of
charge** — including inside a commercial company and including shipping and
selling your own product that is *built with* it.

It withholds exactly one thing: you may not use RHA Wrapper to provide a product
or service that **competes with RHA Wrapper**.

## When you need a commercial license

You need a separate commercial license from the copyright holder if you want to
do something the PolyForm Shield License does not permit — most commonly:

- **Offer a competing product or service** — packaging RHA Wrapper (or a
  derivative of it) as a codegen / test-first-verification / self-healing-repair
  product, hosted service, or developer tool marketed as a substitute for RHA
  Wrapper.
- **OEM / embed-and-resell** where your offering would fall on the competing
  side of the line and you want certainty in writing.

You may **also** want a commercial agreement — even for otherwise-permitted use —
if you need things the free license explicitly does not give you:

- a **warranty**, **indemnification**, or contractual **support / SLA**;
- an **exception in writing** removing ambiguity for your specific deployment;
- terms your procurement or legal team requires before adopting it.

## What a commercial license can grant

Commercial terms are negotiated per deal and can include: a field-of-use grant
that lifts the noncompete for your use, support and maintenance, warranty and
indemnity, and priority input on the roadmap. Pricing is by arrangement
(per-seat, per-deployment, revenue-share, or a flat OEM fee), depending on scope.

## How to start a conversation

Email **info@rha.software** with:

1. who you are and the product/company;
2. what you want to build or offer with RHA Wrapper;
3. the scale (seats, deployments, or expected revenue), if known.

The copyright holder (Andy Funke) is the sole licensor and can grant these terms
directly — there is no third party to clear. If you are not sure whether your use
needs a commercial license, ask; a short description is usually enough to get a
clear yes/no.

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*This document explains the commercial-licensing option in plain language. The
binding open terms are in [LICENSE](LICENSE); any commercial license is a
separate signed agreement.*
