# Research is free; enterprise use requires a paid agreement

The original code, paper, figures, and interface assets are offered under the
[TASUMER MAF Research and Enterprise License 1.0](LICENSE).

| Activity | Permission |
| --- | --- |
| Independent personal study or noncommercial experimentation | Free under the license |
| Noncommercial teaching, academic research, and reproduction of experiments | Free under the license |
| Publishing findings, comparisons, criticism, or negative results from permitted research | Allowed |
| Sharing the original or modified Material for permitted research | Allowed with the license, attribution, and change notices |
| A company's internal research, benchmarking, evaluation, or proof of concept | Separate written permission and payment required |
| Work for a startup, enterprise client, or other business, regardless of company size | Separate written permission and payment required |
| Commercial integration, deployment, products, services, or paid applications | Separate written permission and payment required |

**There is no free enterprise research or evaluation exception.** An employee's
independent personal study remains eligible when it is not work for or for the
business benefit of their employer.

An ordinary academic salary, student stipend, or public or nonprofit research
grant does not by itself disqualify otherwise eligible noncommercial work.
Enterprise-sponsored or enterprise-directed work still requires a paid written
agreement, even when performed at an academic institution.

Request an agreement through the verified maintainers of
[TASUMER MAF](https://github.com/tasumermaf) or the
[official website](https://tasumermaf.com/). Fees and permitted uses are agreed
in writing; merely paying or submitting an inquiry does not grant permission.

The full license governs. Separately licensed third-party material retains its
own terms. This license does not claim ownership of mathematical facts or
restrict independently authored work that uses no rights reserved to the
licensor. It is **source-available for research**, not unrestricted open source.