Licensing

This document describes what is open source and what is commercially licensed in Membria Enterprise Edition (EE). Membria EE is designed to be deployable in regulated, on-premise environments while keeping core infrastructure transparent and auditable.

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Licensing overview

Membria EE follows a hybrid licensing model:

• Core infrastructure is open source
• Reasoning, decision intelligence, and governance layers are proprietary
• No license is required for basic deployment
• Commercial licenses apply to advanced decision systems and enterprise features

This separation allows enterprises to inspect, audit, and operate the core system independently, while licensing higher-level intelligence components as needed.

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Open-source components (free)

The following components are open source and can be used, modified, and deployed without a commercial license.

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1. Membria EE core platform

Includes:

• Core runtime and orchestration
• Ingestion pipelines (documents, chats, logs, structured sources)
• Vector storage and indexing
• Graph storage integration (e.g., FalkorDB or compatible graph stores)
• Base GraphRAG execution engine
• Local model inference integration
• Basic API and CLI interfaces

Purpose: provides a transparent, auditable foundation for knowledge ingestion and retrieval. License: open source (license specified in repository, e.g., Apache 2.0 or equivalent)

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2. Storage and infrastructure layer

Includes:

• Graph schema definitions
• Embedding storage and retrieval logic
• Event ingestion framework
• Basic provenance metadata (timestamps, source IDs)

Purpose: allows enterprises to fully control where and how data is stored and processed.

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3. Self-hosted deployment

• On-premise deployment
• Air-gapped environments
• Custom infrastructure (bare metal, private cloud, sovereign cloud)

No license is required to deploy or operate Membria EE Core.

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Commercial and licensed components (paid)

The following components are proprietary and require a commercial Membria EE license.

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4. Decision Surface (DS)

What it is:

• The Decision Surface is the primary enterprise UI and reasoning layer.
• It surfaces:
  • open decisions
  • assumption drift
  • conflicting reasoning
  • unresolved or high-risk areas
• Provides longitudinal views across time, teams, and systems.

Why it is licensed:

• Encodes proprietary reasoning models
• Includes enterprise-grade visualization logic
• Implements decision lifecycle semantics

License scope:

• Per deployment
• May be limited by number of users or nodes (contractual)

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5. Decision Black Box (DBB)

What it is:

• An autonomous reasoning agent that detects, extracts, and records decisions from:
  • chats
  • documents
  • workflows
  • system events
• Acts as a black-box recorder for organizational decisions.

Why it is licensed:

• Contains proprietary heuristics and confidence models
• Includes false-positive suppression logic
• Implements decision lineage and causality tracking

License scope:

• Required for decision capture and long-term reasoning
• Mandatory for regulated decision workflows

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6. Skill-Forge (LoRA lifecycle and governance)

What it is:

• Management layer for domain-specific LoRA patches
• Includes:
  • routing policies
  • evaluation datasets
  • promotion and rollback logic
  • drift and degradation detection

Why it is licensed:

• Encodes proprietary expertise-compounding mechanisms
• Critical for maintaining model reliability over time
• Governs how expertise accumulates safely

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7. Policy-controlled escalation and Council orchestration

What it is:

• Optional escalation framework for:
  • multi-model reasoning
  • expert consensus synthesis
• Can be fully local, hybrid, or disabled.

Why it is licensed:

• Includes cost, risk, and confidence-based routing
• Provides auditability and replay guarantees
• Integrates with enterprise governance controls

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8. Enterprise governance and compliance features

Includes:

• Full audit logs for reasoning and escalations
• Decision replay and forensic inspection
• Governance APIs
• Compliance reporting exports
• Policy enforcement mechanisms

These features are licensed as part of Membria EE.

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What is not licensed

The following are explicitly not restricted:

• Choice of local LLM or SLM
• Custom models trained by the customer
• External tools and integrations built by the customer
• Internal extensions built on top of the open-source core

Membria does not claim ownership over customer data, models, or derived knowledge.

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Licensing philosophy

Membria EE licensing is based on the following principles:

• Infrastructure should be inspectable
• Reasoning systems are intellectual property
• Enterprises should choose how much intelligence to activate
• Nothing critical is hidden behind a black box

You can run Membria EE Core without any paid components. You license Membria EE when you want decision intelligence, continuity, and governance.

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Summary table

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For licensing terms, pricing, and deployment models, contact Membria Enterprise Sales.