License type and grant
This is a custom source-available commercial license granted by CYGNUZ SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS for its rights in the purchased application. It is not an open-source license. Subject to payment and these terms, the license is non-exclusive, worldwide and perpetual for the purchased version, unless lawfully terminated for a material breach. Copyright ownership is not transferred.
One purchase permits one production installation bound to a verified hostname and one localhost development installation for one business or one identified client. You may use and modify the source for that licensed installation. Each additional production installation requires a separate purchase, even for the same business. Each additional client requires a separate purchase.
What counts as another installation
An independently running copy is another installation, whether on another server, domain, subdomain or database, or on the same server. One localhost development installation is included alongside the production installation. Additional production, development, test or staging installations require a separate purchase unless a written offer expressly grants them. Editing source files and keeping non-running backup copies do not create an additional deployed instance.
A replacement server may take over the same licensed installation once the previous installation stops running. Do not operate both as separate installations under one purchase. Mobile apps used by authorized users to connect to the single licensed backend do not each require another server-installation license.
Developers and client projects
A developer or agency may buy the application for one named client, modify and deploy it for that client, charge for its own implementation services, and hand over the licensed installation and its source to that client. Identify the client in the purchase or agreed handover record.
The developer and client share the one production and one localhost allowance; each does not receive separate activation slots. The localhost copy may be used only to develop or test the same licensed installation. The developer may not reuse that purchase for another client or supply the application as a reusable template. Work for another client requires another purchase. Client access to the licensed handover is the limited permitted exception to the redistribution prohibition.
No redistribution or shared resale
Do not sell, share, sublicense, publish, upload or otherwise redistribute the application, its source or modified copies as software to other people or businesses, except for the authorized client handover or controlled access by contractors working solely on the licensed installation.
Do not publish the application in a public repository, bundle it into another downloadable product, operate unrelated client installations under one license, or use it as a multi-client hosted service except as permitted by the SaaS add-on below or a separate written agreement. Contractors must keep the code confidential and have no independent right to reuse or distribute it.
Hosted service rights with the SaaS add-on
A valid Open Core HR SaaS add-on license, attached to a Core license, permits the licensee to operate that one licensed production installation as a hosted subscription service and to sell access to separate customer workspaces on it, under the licensee’s own brand, prices and terms. This is the permitted exception to the multi-client hosted service restriction.
Subscribers receive access to the hosted service only. They do not receive the application, its source code, an installation or any license from us, and the licensee may not give them any of these. Each additional hosted production installation requires its own Core and SaaS add-on licenses. Modules offered to subscribers must be licensed for that installation. The licensee is responsible for its subscribers, its service terms, payments collected, taxes, privacy obligations and the hosting, security and support of its service.
Modifications and third-party rights
You may adapt the licensed installation to your needs. Modifying or rebranding it does not remove the installation limit or create redistribution rights in our underlying application. Preserve required copyright and third-party license notices. This license does not grant rights to market another product under our trademarks.
Independent third-party components remain governed by their own licenses; this agreement does not remove those rights. Any application version already supplied under different valid terms retains those terms. We can license only rights we own or are authorized to grant.
Updates and support are separate
The purchase includes 12 months of released fixes, enhancements and features for the purchased product and 6 months of support. After update expiry, renewal is required to obtain later releases from us. Update renewal does not grant another installation or extend support.
Support renewals and support-hour packages are sold separately. Your installed licensed version keeps working after support or updates expire. A downloaded update replaces the software within the same installation allowance; it does not grant an additional running copy.
Breach, refunds and existing rights
For a material breach, we will give notice and a reasonable opportunity to correct it where appropriate and legally required. An unresolved material breach may lead to termination of the affected license under applicable law. Expiry of updates or support alone is not a breach and does not terminate use.
A full refund of the affected commercial license requires you to cease use and remove its copies to the extent required by law. Independent third-party rights and unrelated purchases remain unaffected. Mandatory consumer rights and original historical purchase promises remain protected. The Terms of Sale and Refund Policy also apply.