Licensing and commercial support

Genode is commercially supported by the German company Genode Labs GmbH, which offers trainings, development work under contract, developer support, and commercial licensing:

The framework is available under two flavours of licences: an open-source license and commercial licensing. The primary license used for the distribution of the Genode OS framework is the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3). In short, the AGPLv3 grants everybody the rights to

• Use the Genode OS framework without paying any license fee,

• Freely distribute the software,

• Modify the source code and distribute modified versions of the software.

In return, the AGPLv3 requires any modifications and derived work to be published under the same or a compatible license. For the full license text, refer to

Note that the official license text accompanies the AGPLv3 with an additional clause that clarifies our consent to link Genode with all commonly established Open-Source licenses.

For applications that require more permissive licensing conditions than granted by the AGPLv3, Genode Labs offers the option to commercially license the technology upon request. Please write to licensing@genode-labs.com.