Aora Bot
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      • License

      Aora Bot is source-available under the tiered Aora Bot License. Eligible individuals and organisations may use it free of charge, including for commercial purposes; other organisations need a commercial license to use it in a live product. This page summarises the license; the license text prevails.

      Free use

      Users who meet any one of these conditions may use Aora Bot free of charge, including for commercial purposes:

      UserCondition
      Individuals and independent developersUsing it in their own name, including in their own products
      Students, teachers and schoolsFor teaching, learning and research
      Non-profitsIncluding charitable projects and community groups
      Open-source projectsPublishing all of their source code and not operating for profit
      Teams of up to 3Full-time, part-time and long-term contracted staff, 3 in total

      Free users may build Aora Bot into websites, apps, games and hardware devices, modify it, and distribute it with their products.

      When a product is built for someone else, eligibility is decided by the party that ultimately owns or operates it. For example, a freelancer building a project for a 50-person company needs that company to hold a commercial license.

      Credit

      When a free user publicly releases or launches a product that uses Aora Bot, it must credit Aora Bot in any one of these places:

      • The product's About, Credits, Help or settings page
      • The website footer
      • The product description in an app store, a plugin marketplace or on the project's homepage
      • The product's README, documentation or third-party license list
      • For a product that cannot carry a link, such as a hardware device, offline software or a game: its manual, packaging, end credits or staff list, with the full URL written out

      The credit must include the words "Aora Bot" and link to the GitHub repository; once an official website launches, it may link there instead. It need not appear next to the characters. For example:

      Powered by <a href="https://github.com/sam70361/aora-bot">Aora Bot</a>

      Personal use, learning and research, internal testing and projects not yet publicly released need no credit. Organisations holding a commercial license may omit it.

      Commercial license

      Organisations that meet none of the conditions above, such as companies of more than 3 people, need a commercial license to use Aora Bot in a live product or service. Before then, evaluation, internal testing and prototyping are free of charge.

      Commercial licenses are offered as a yearly subscription or as a perpetual license for a version, with scope, term and fee agreed case by case. The general terms are in LICENSE-COMMERCIAL.md. To discuss a license, email 1251579308@qq.com or get in touch on WeChat through the Sponsor page.

      The template below may help when you get in touch. It is a guide only: you need not complete every field, and the company's size and intended use are enough to begin:

      Subject: Aora Bot commercial license inquiry (company name)

Company name:
Country or region:
Total headcount: (full-time, part-time and long-term contractors, including affiliates)
Product name and link:
Product type: (website, app, mini program, game, hardware, SaaS or other)
How you plan to use Aora Bot: (for example an AI assistant, status indicators or user avatars; which packages or the avatar endpoint)
Expected launch date:
License type: (yearly subscription, perpetual license for a version, or not sure yet)
Needs: (support, custom work, a signed contract, an invoice)
Contact: (name, role, email or WeChat)
Anything else:

      Restrictions

      The following restrictions apply to all users, commercial licensees included, unless otherwise agreed in writing:

      • Selling, renting or charging for the engine or the characters as a product of their own, for example as a component library, template, UI kit, source bundle, SDK or plugin.
      • Offering a hosted service or API whose main value is Aora Bot, such as a character, avatar or animated-expression service.
      • Selling the characters as goods of their own, including stickers, sticker packs, merchandise, prints and digital collectibles, or selling exported images, animations and asset packs on their own.
      • Registering a character's name or appearance as a trademark, or claiming copyright in it.
      • Training or fine-tuning AI models that generate characters on the character designs.
      • Removing or altering the copyright and license notices in the source.

      Using a character as an avatar, assistant or mascot in your own product is not subject to these restrictions.

      The classic Emotion Ball

      The classic Emotion Ball is kept in the emotion-ball branch under its original license, to which this page does not apply.

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      • Getting started — install and render a first character
      • Sponsor — support the project, or talk about sponsorship