Licensing notice

Coro uses an **open-core** model: most of the repository is open source under the

Business Source License 1.1 (BUSL-1.1), with a dedicated commercial license for the hosted control plane.

Open source (BUSL-1.1 → Apache-2.0)

Everything in this repository except the path listed below is licensed under BUSL-1.1. On 2029-05-19, that code converts to Apache License 2.0.

Copyright: Emre Ertugrul (personal maintainer; may transfer to a company entity later.)

What you can do today (plain English):

Clone, modify, and contribute to Coro.
Run Coro locally or inside your organization for real engineering work.
Build plugins and integrations using @coro-ai/plugin-sdk.

What requires a commercial agreement:

Operating Coro Cloud (or a substantially equivalent multi-tenant hosted control plane for third parties) in production, whether hosted by you or sold as a service.

See the Additional Use Grant in LICENSE for the legal wording.

In scope for BUSL

Includes, among others:

packages/runner/ (CLI, job engine, hybrid client — not src/cloud/)
packages/dashboard/, packages/desktop-electron/
packages/intelligence-base/, packages/plugin-sdk/, packages/plugin-gitlab/
packages/llm-anthropic/, packages/llm-openai/
packages/cloud-protocol/ (shared protocol types used by OSS runners and Cloud)

Commercial (source-available)

Path	License
`packages/runner/src/cloud/`	Coro Cloud Commercial License

This is the Coro Cloud control plane (auth, teams, webhooks, WebSocket gateway, Postgres backend). Source is published for transparency; production use requires a commercial agreement.

SPDX headers

Source files may include SPDX identifiers:

BUSL-1.1 — open-core code
LicenseRef-Coro-Commercial-1.0 — packages/runner/src/cloud/ only

Trademarks

“Coro” and related marks are not licensed by the copyright licenses above. Do not imply endorsement or official status without permission.

Questions

Licensing / commercial: open a GitHub Discussion or issue with the question label.
Security: see SECURITY.md.