Licensing
Bedrock Flows is FSL-1.1-MIT — a fair-source license. Commercial today, MIT in two years, and never a lock-in.
What FSL-1.1-MIT means
The Functional Source License lets you use, modify and build on Bedrock Flows for any permitted purpose — which is essentially anything except shipping a competing product built from it. It's meant for real commercial work: you and your team can use it freely on your projects.
It turns into MIT after two years
Every release carries a clock. Two years after a version is released, that version automatically becomes MIT-licensed — fully open, no strings. That's written into the license itself, so it's not a promise we can take back.
The practical upshot: you can never be locked in. Even in the worst case, the version you're running becomes MIT on its second birthday and you can do whatever you like with it.
Two ways it plays out
Let it convert
Many projects run long enough that the code simply turns MIT on its own. You never pay anything beyond the project, and you're never stuck.
Convert early
Want it in-house now, or to switch vendors? Buy out the commercial license early and get a company-specific license that goes beyond MIT. We quote the price up front; for early customers it's a few thousand euros at most on a ~€15k project.
Why a fair-source license at all
We release in the open because the work speaks for itself — it's the best advertisement for what Obra Studio can do. But the combination of ideas in Bedrock Flows is distinctive enough that we want some breathing room before it's fully open, so others can't simply repackage it as their own. FSL gives us that runway while guaranteeing you never lose access. We can always choose to make it fully MIT sooner.
See pricing for how this works on a project, or read the full license text.