Licensing

Different licensing models of Pencil

Open-source License

Pencil is made public under the terms of the GNU Public License version 2 which is aimed for providing the community with most freedom for using and re-distributing the application.

To guarantee the openness of Pencil, licensees are enforced to release modified versions of Pencil in the same terms as defined by the GPL2. This allows community users to benefit from all enhacements made by the others.


Commercial License

Beside the option to use GPLv2, Evolus also provides Pencil source code under a commercial license in which licensees can obtain the source code, modify it and integrate it into their own commercial application without the need to re-publish any of the code in the terms of the GPL.

For more information in commercial licensing, please send your enquiry to .