License
Source-available today. Apache 2.0 after the Change Date.
obleth-gateway is licensed under BSL 1.1. The current LICENSE permits internal, academic, research, educational, and self-hosted production use, while restricting third-party hosted gateway services and competing derived gateway products before the Change Date.
$0
Permitted use
No license fee for internal, academic, research, educational, and self-hosted production use
BSL 1.1
Source-available
Business Source License 1.1 governs the current obleth-gateway source
2030-06-11
Change Date
The current LICENSE lists this date for conversion under the Change License
Apache 2.0
Change License
Released versions convert to Apache License 2.0 on their Change Date
Plain-English summary
What BSL means here
This page summarizes the current gateway repo. The canonical terms are always the LICENSE file in obleth-gateway.
Permitted by the grant
Run obleth in production for your own workloads.
Use it inside your organization.
Use it in academic, research, and educational institutions.
Self-host the gateway on your own hardware.
Modify it and contribute changes back to the project.
Restricted before Change Date
Offer obleth to third parties as a hosted or managed service.
Expose a substantial set of obleth features as a third-party gateway service.
Distribute, sell, or make available a competing derived gateway product.
Use it outside the Additional Use Grant before the applicable Change Date without alternative licensing.
License path
A fixed conversion point
The BSL text grants broad non-production rights, the Additional Use Grant permits the production uses listed above, and the Change License opens the release under Apache 2.0 on the Change Date.
Now
Business Source License 1.1
Source-available, not OSI open source, with an Additional Use Grant for permitted production use.
Change Date
2030-06-11
The current obleth-gateway LICENSE lists this date as the Change Date parameter.
After
Apache License 2.0
The applicable release converts under the Change License after the Change Date.
Included at $0
The full gateway
Who it serves
Self-hosted inference environments
Universities and labs
Share GPU capacity across departments, projects, and grant-funded groups without letting one workload dominate.
Teams with their own models
Run OpenAI-compatible backends on your hardware and add identity, fairness, budgets, and usage accounting.
Internal platform teams
Operate a centralized AI capacity pool while giving production, research, and sandbox tenants different weights.
Moving off managed APIs
Keep existing SDKs pointed at a familiar API surface while you bring inference capacity in-house.
Any compatible upstream
vLLM, Aibrix, llama.cpp servers, OpenAI-compatible providers, or your own model service can sit behind obleth.
Clone and run
Docker Compose and Helm are included so the gateway, dashboard, and datastores are wired together quickly.
Quick startRun the gateway.
Clone the repo, run the Compose stack, create your first tenant, and send an OpenAI-compatible request through a fairshare-aware gateway.