License

fDeploy Server ships with a Community license already applied, so a fresh installation is licensed and can deploy from first start. You only need to touch this area when you buy a paid license or renew an existing one.

License tiers

Community is the complete product — unlimited projects, deployment targets and users — and it does not expire. Eligibility is based on the size of your organisation rather than on features.

Community is free for commercial use in production, by any organisation whose annual revenue is under $1M / €900k, counted together with any affiliates. It is not limited to hobby projects, evaluation, or internal tooling: if you are under the threshold, you may use Community to deploy your company’s production software at no charge, and there is no clause restricting you to non-commercial use.

Separately, personal use, education, non-production and evaluation use, and non-commercial open-source work are free regardless of revenue. The full conditions are in the Product Terms.

Paid tiers differ in the support commitment and eligibility, not in what the software can do. See fdeploy.com/pricing.

Viewing license information

Navigate to Configuration → License to view your current license details:

• Licensed company name — the organization the license is issued to
• License type — Community, Professional, Academic, or Enterprise
• Expiration date — when the license expires, or perpetual if it does not
• Maintenance expiry — for perpetual licenses, the end of your entitlement to new versions
• Max projects and Max deployment targets — any limits the license imposes; blank means unlimited
• Compliance status — whether your installation is compliant with the license terms

Upgrading from 1.0.1.1 or earlier

Versions before 1.0.2.0 seeded a trial license with a fixed expiry date that has since passed, so those installations report as non-compliant and cannot create projects or deployment targets.

Upgrading does not fix this on its own. The Community license is only seeded when no license record exists at all, and an upgrade will never silently overwrite a license you might have paid for. If you installed an earlier version and were left with an expired trial, clear the record and restart the service:

DELETE FROM [Configuration] WHERE [item] = 'license';

Restart-Service "fDeploy Server"

On the next start, fDeploy Server seeds the free Community license and the installation is immediately usable. A clean installation of 1.0.2.0 or later is unaffected and needs none of this.

Updating your license

1. Navigate to Configuration → License
2. Paste your license into the editor
3. Click Save to apply the new license

The license editor provides syntax highlighting to help you verify the license content before saving.

Perpetual licenses and maintenance

A perpetual license never expires. If you stop renewing maintenance, you keep the right to run every version released up to the point maintenance lapsed, indefinitely — fDeploy will tell you that maintenance has lapsed, but nothing is disabled and no functionality is withdrawn.

fDeploy never contacts SVEA IKT AB to validate a license. There is no license server, no activation call, and no mechanism by which a license can be revoked remotely.

License status on the dashboard

If your license is missing, expired, or non-compliant, a notification will be displayed on the dashboard. Running the Community tier shows a small “Community edition” marker; this is informational and nothing is restricted.