extends ./outline.jade
mixin columns(...names)
tr
each name in names
th= name
mixin row(...cells)
tr
each cell in cells
td= cell
mixin LicenseOption(name, period, price, audience)
.item
h4 #{name}
.focus #{period}
span #{price}
h5 Suggested for:
span #{audience}
a.button(href="spacy_trial_free.docx") Download license
span or
a(href="#") get in touch
block body_block
article.pricing
.box.license
+LicenseOption("Trial", "90 days", "$0", "Evaluation")
+LicenseOption("Production", "1 year", "$5,000", "Production")
+LicenseOption("Certainty", "5 years", "$20,000", "Secure Planning")
p.caption
| Researcher, hobbyist, or open-source developer? spaCy also offers
a(href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html") AGPLv3
| licenses.
p.
What we offer is a rare, simple certainty: a long-term, permissive license
that comes with full access to the source, complete transparency, and almost
complete flexibility. The difference between this and a black-box API is
night and day. You cannot build a great product against a service you
don't understand, and you can't build a great business on a service you
don't control.
p
| Let's face it: services disappear. Constantly. The good start-ups get
| bought; the bad ones go bankrupt. Open-source projects become abandoned
| or bloated. Google's graveyard is over-flowing – ditto for Yahoo!,
| Microsoft, etc. Sure, IBM won't be broke...But will BlueMix be sunset?
p
| A 5 year license won't expire until 2020. spaCy will be with you for
| longer than most of your current staff. If that's still not enough,
| get in touch. I'm sure we can work something out.
//p.
// To make spaCy as valuable as possible, licenses to it are for life. You get
// complete transparency, certainty and control. If you need to use spaCy
// as an API, it's trivial to host it yourself – and you don't need to
// worry about the service changing or disappearing. And if you're ever in
// acquisition or IPO talks, the story is simple.
//p.
// spaCy can also be used as free open-source software, under the Aferro GPL
// license. If you use it this way, you must comply with the AGPL license
// terms. When you distribute your project, or offer it as a network service,
// you must distribute the source-code and grant users an AGPL license to it.
//h3 Examples
//p.
// In order to clarify how spaCy's license structure might apply to you, I've
// written a few examples, in the form of user-stories.
//details
// summary: h4 Seed stage start-ups
// p.
// Ashley and Casey have an idea for a start-up. To explore their idea, they
// want to build a minimum viable product they can put in front of potential
// users and investors.
// p. They have two options.
// ol
// li
// p.
// Trial commercial license. With a simple form, they can
// use spaCy for 90 days, for a nominal fee of $1. They are free to modify
// spaCy, and they will own the copyright to their modifications for the
// duration of the license. After the trial period elapses, they can either
// pay the license fee, stop using spaCy, release their project under the
// AGPL.
//
// li
// p.
// AGPL. Casey and Pat can instead use spaCy under the AGPL
// license. However, they must then release any code that statically or
// dynamically links to spaCy under the AGPL as well (e.g. if they import
// the module, or import a module that imports it, etc). They also cannot
// use spaCy as a network resource, by running it as a service --- this is
// the loophole that the "A" part of the AGPL is designed to close.
//
// p.
// Ashley and Casey find the AGPL license unattractive for commercial use.
// They decide to take up the trial commercial license. However, over the
// next 90 days, Ashley has to move house twice, and Casey gets sick. By
// the time the trial expires, they still don't have a demo they can show
// investors. They send an email explaining the situation, and a 90 day extension
// to their trial license is granted.
// p.
// By the time the extension period has elapsed, spaCy has helped them secure
// funding, and they even have a little revenue. They are glad to pay the
// $5,000 commercial license fee.
// p.
// spaCy is now permanently licensed for the product Ashley and Casey are
// developing. They own the copyright to any modifications they make to spaCy,
// but not to the original spaCy code.
// p.
// No additional fees will be due when they hire new developers, run spaCy on
// additional internal servers, etc. If their company is acquired, the license
// will be transferred to the company acquiring them. However, to use spaCy
// in another product, they will have to buy a second license.
// details
// summary: h4 University academics
// p.
// Alex and Sasha are post-doctoral researchers working for a university.
// Part of their funding comes from a grant from Google, but Google will not
// own any part of the work that they produce. Their mission is just to write
// papers.
// p.
// Alex and Sasha find spaCy convenient, so they use it in their system under
// the AGPL. This means that their system must also be released under the
// AGPL, but they're cool with that – they were going to release their
// code anyway, as it's the only way to ensure their experiments are properly
// repeatable.
// p.
// Alex and Sasha find and fix a few bugs in spaCy. They must release these
// modifications, and they ask that they be accepted into the main spaCy repo.
// In order to do this, they must sign a contributor agreement, ceding their
// copyright. When commercial licenses to spaCy are sold, Alex and Sasha will
// not be able to claim any royalties from their contributions.
// p.
// Later, Alex and Sasha implement new features into spaCy, for another paper.
// The code was quite rushed, and they don't want to take the time to put
// together a proper pull request. They must release their modifications
// under the AGPL, but they are not obliged to contribute it to the spaCy
// repository, or concede their copyright.
// details
// summary: h4 Open Source developers
// p.
// Phuong and Jessie use the open-source software Calibre to manage their
// e-book libraries. They have an idea for a search feature, and they want
// to use spaCy to implement it. Calibre is released under the GPLv3. The
// AGPL has additional restrictions for projects used as a network resource,
// but they don't apply to this project, so Phuong and Jessie can use spaCy
// to improve Calibre. They'll have to release their code, but that was
// always their intention anyway.