Free public-source use
Use, modification and redistribution are allowed for public projects that keep attribution, notices and the license text.
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Licensing and commercial use
This page summarizes public licensing facts and clarifies the boundary between public-source use and proprietary or commercial use.
Public repo licensing
Public licensing facts
Core-specific public repository licenses are listed on each core detail page and in the machine-readable catalog.
Commercial license required
Closed-source or proprietary use requires a separate paid commercial license.
Paid support
Commercial licensing can be paired with support, review and integration discussions.
Commercial boundary
Examples of commercial-scope use
The public site intentionally uses repository-visible examples only.
- Private FPGA product
- Private repository integration
- Customer-delivered FPGA bitstream
- ASIC or SoC integration
- Paid internal deployment
- Proprietary product or service
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