Commercial and Licensing Lifecycle

The criterion. The business realities: clear, business-friendly licensing (permissive, or copyleft with a clear commercial option), and vendor longevity — backing that ensures long-term patching, maintenance, and IP indemnity.

How Revera answers it

Revera is dual-licensed with clean terms, made possible by clean ownership:

  • Noncommercial / evaluation — free, under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0: research, education, personal study, and evaluation. You may trial Revera for a commercial decision under this license.

  • Commercial / production — paid, under a commercial license from VIACERTO LLC: build it into products you sell with no obligation to open your source.

VIACERTO LLC owns 100% of the kernel — no third-party code — which is exactly what makes the dual license clean and unambiguous. (The one vendored third-party component is the optional SEGGER SystemView trace backend under tools/SEGGER/, used under SEGGER’s own license and compiled only when you enable it — off by default.) Contributions are accepted under a CLA that preserves this (see CONTRIBUTING).

Lifecycle: Semantic Versioning with a VERSION file and a Keep-a-Changelog CHANGELOG.md. Until 1.0.0 the API may change between minor versions; the stable surface and its [experimental] exceptions are documented in the API reference.

At a glance

Aspect

Revera

Free tier

PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 (research / education / evaluation)

Commercial tier

VIACERTO commercial license (ship closed-source products)

Third-party code

none in the kernel (100% VIACERTO-owned); optional SEGGER SysView backend vendored under SEGGER’s license

Contribution terms

CLA (preserves the dual-license right)

Versioning

SemVer + VERSION + CHANGELOG.md

Vendor

VIACERTO LLC

Limits (honest)

  • Single-vendor, not a foundation or a large community — backing is VIACERTO LLC, not a consortium.

  • 0.1.0 is an experimental development release — the API is not yet frozen at 1.0.0.

  • Commercial support, warranty, indemnity, and pricing terms are set in the commercial agreement and are not published here; contact VIACERTO (LICENSE-COMMERCIAL.md).

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