Tutorial Forge is licensed under the PolyForm Small Business License 1.0.0. It is source-available: the full source stays visible and forkable, but usage by larger organizations requires a commercial license.
Tutorial Forge is free to use for:
- Individual developers and freelancers
- Organizations that, together with their affiliates, have fewer than 100 people (employees and independent contractors combined) and less than $1,000,000 USD in total revenue in the prior tax year
No license purchase or permission is required. Just use it — including in CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling, production workflows, or as part of a hosted service you offer to others. Company size is the only thing that matters.
A commercial license is required if your organization exceeds either limit:
- 100 or more people (employees + independent contractors), OR
- $1,000,000 USD or more in total revenue in the prior tax year
Reach out at john.brecht@gmail.com with a brief description of your use case. Licensing is straightforward and reasonably priced.
Tutorial Forge is source-available, not OSI-approved open source. Automated license scanners may flag it as "restricted" or "non-OSI" for this reason — that's expected and not a cause for concern.
Note: versions published before this license change remain available under their original MIT terms; the PolyForm license applies to current and future releases.
Tutorial Forge is built and maintained by a single developer. This license keeps the project freely available to the individuals and small teams it was designed to help, while ensuring that large-scale commercial use supports continued development.