Licenses
Licenses
Everything UpFork makes is free and MIT. Developers' own products may use UpFork's Standard License or an open-source license; each product shows its license on its page. Lessons and articles are not products: they have their own terms.
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UpFork's own products
All of them (components, mobile components, templates, landing pages and the full-stack Sponsor Bot) are free and MIT: use them, change them and ship what you build with them, keeping the copyright notice. Each one carries a LICENSE file; photos, fonts and media credited in it keep their own licenses.
Lessons and articles
These are what members write, not products, and they are not under an open license such as MIT or CC BY. The terms say how they may be used:
- Writers. What you write stays yours. When you publish it, you give UpFork a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to host, copy, adapt, display and distribute it, and to license it to others, including for a fee, in any form (the site, the API, the MCP server, datasets).
- Readers. You may use a lesson and its snippet in your own projects freely. Copying lessons in bulk, building a dataset from them, or training an AI model on them needs UpFork’s written permission.
- Free now, maybe paid later. Lessons, the lessons API and the MCP server are free now. UpFork may limit them or charge for them later, announced at least 30 days before. A charge never makes an MIT product paid.
UpFork Standard License
An option for developers’ own products. Use it in unlimited personal and commercial projects. Don't resell or redistribute it on its own.
- Use it in as many personal and commercial projects as you like, and change it however they need.
- Don’t resell or redistribute it on its own: it goes out as part of something you built, never as the thing you sell or share.
Open-source licenses
Some developers publish under a well-known open-source license instead. In short:
- MIT License: Do anything with it, keeping the copyright notice.
- Apache License 2.0: Permissive, with an explicit patent grant; keep the notices.
- BSD 3-Clause License: Permissive; keep the notice, and don't use the author's name to promote.
- GNU GPL v3: Free to use and change; what you distribute with it must be GPL too.
The full text of each license, linked above, is what counts.
Which license applies
The one on the product’s page. Its developer chooses it when they publish the product. Browse the catalog to see each product’s.
Questions
Not sure whether what you have in mind is covered? Ask the product’s developer through their profile, or write to support@upfork.dev.