Licensing
Business Source License terms, permitted uses, and how to obtain a commercial license for Cascades.
Cascades is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 (BUSL 1.1). See the full text in the repository LICENSE.md. On the Change Date (2030-05-01, subject to the four-year rule in the license text), the Licensed Work converts to GPL-3.0-or-later as specified there.
Permitted use
- Local development
- Internal research
- Evaluation and non-production experimentation
Restrictions
Without a separate commercial agreement with Noir Stack LLC, you may not:
- Host Cascades as a service for third parties
- Use Cascades in commercial redistribution models that violate the BSL parameters
- Operate multi-tenant SaaS offerings built on this codebase
Cascades SDK
The Cascades Python SDK (cascades-sdk on PyPI · source on GitHub as no1rstack/cascades-sdk) is part of the Cascades system and is licensed under the same BUSL 1.1 model in its own repository, with matching parameters (including Change Date 2030-05-01 and Change License GPL-3.0-or-later). Full terms are in the SDK LICENSE.
Commercial licensing
For production deployments, SaaS, or other commercial use, contact Noir Stack.