Build with it. Free.
Use Spine Framework to build software for your business.
Build it yourself. Have an agency build it. Put it in front of your employees, customers, or partners.
If the software itself becomes the product you sell, you need a commercial license.
Run your business on it.
Build a CRM. A support platform. An operations system. A customer portal. Something entirely your own.
Use it across your company and teams.
No Spine Framework subscription required.
Customers can use it too.
A customer-facing application does not become commercial software simply because customers use it.
If the application helps you deliver your business, it remains free from a Spine Framework licensing perspective.
Build for clients.
Agencies and consultants can use Spine Framework to design, build, deploy, support, and maintain custom applications for their clients.
Charge for your work.
No commercial Spine Framework license is required simply because a client hired you to build it.
Sell the software. Go commercial.
If access to a Spine-powered application is the product you sell — as SaaS, licensed software, or another commercial software offering — you need a commercial license from Dahl Ventures Inc.
Commercial LicensingDon’t resell the foundation.
The standard license does not permit you to rebrand, repackage, distribute, or offer Spine Framework or its included applications as your own competing framework, platform, or software product.
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Talk to us.
Commercial LicensingWhat you build is yours.
Your business data, content, branding, and application-specific work remain yours.
Building on Spine Framework does not make Dahl Ventures Inc. an owner of your business or your data.
Spine Framework and its pre-existing components remain subject to their applicable license terms.
Use it to run a business. Free.
Use it to sell software. Commercial.
That’s the idea.
Examples
Your company builds its own Salesforce replacement.
Free.
An agency builds a custom Salesforce replacement for your company.
Free.
You build a Salesforce replacement and sell subscriptions to it.
Commercial license.
You rename Spine Framework and distribute it as your own platform.
Not permitted without an explicit agreement with Dahl Ventures Inc.
Legal Notice
This page is a plain-English explanation of the Spine Framework licensing model. It is not the software license.
Your legal rights and obligations are governed by the license terms included with the applicable Spine Framework software and any separate written agreement with Dahl Ventures Inc.
If this page conflicts with those terms, the applicable license or written agreement controls.
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