Open source
Free
For anyone who publishes their source under the AGPL-3.0.
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Use pfx under the AGPL-3.0 and publish your source with it.
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pfx · AGPL-3.0-only
pfx licensing
From first scene to shipped game, or to finished film, in one engine. Freaking fast, light and simple.
pfx is open source under the AGPL-3.0. Closed use is free for studios and individuals under $200k of yearly revenue plus funding, for education and for non-profits; Indie and Pro cover the rest.
Four licences
By how you ship and what you earn
Free licence
Free
For closed use by studios and individuals under $200k of yearly revenue plus funding, education, and non-profits and NGOs.
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To get it, contact us with a line about your studio or project.
Indie
$99 a year
per studio
For studios with $200k to $1M of yearly revenue plus funding.
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Pro
$499 a year
per studio
For studios over $1M of yearly revenue plus funding, or anyone who wants the splash removed.
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- No royalties and no runtime fees, ever.
- Your price stays the same for as long as you renew.
- Games shipped while licensed stay licensed if you stop paying.
- Your key is sent straight away, so a year's payment is final and there are no refunds. Stopping the renewal ends the years after it, never the one you paid for.
- Eligibility is yours to declare: at checkout you state your studio's yearly revenue plus funding, and no proof is asked.
What the AGPL-3.0 means
You can use, study, change and share pfx freely. If you ship a game or app built on pfx, or host it as a service people use over the Internet or any other network, you publish that work's full source under the AGPL-3.0 too.
It is free for open-source projects, learning, hobby work and anything you publish under the AGPL.
Closed use
A closed-source product or service built on pfx:
- a game you sell without publishing its source;
- a closed app;
- a hosted service with private code.
It takes the free licence under $200k of yearly revenue plus funding, in education or as a non-profit, and Indie or Pro above that.
Up to 3.1.1
Releases up to 3.1.1 stay MIT: code taken from those releases keeps its MIT terms. The AGPL-3.0 and the licences above cover pfx from 3.1.2 on.
Questions about a licence go to pito@hey.com. This page sums the AGPL-3.0 up; the licence text in the repository is what binds: github.com/gmrdad82/pfx/blob/main/LICENSE. The PITO MD name, the pfx name and its logo are © Catalin Ilinca, all rights reserved.