Project-content exception

NEXT HMI is AGPL-3.0 (LICENSING.md). The copyleft covers the platform — backend, frontend runtime, editor, and any fork or modification of them.

It does not cover the content you author with it:

• Pages, layouts, widget trees, property expressions
• Themes and design-token overrides
• Translations and locale files
• Datasource configurations (OPC-UA endpoints, variable maps, …)
• Alarms, recipes, users, and other per-project configuration
• Custom widgets under custom-widgets/<Name>/index.tsx

That content is your own work, not a derivative of NEXT HMI. Keep it private, license it as you like, ship it in a commercial product — no AGPL obligation, and no §13 source-disclosure duty when NEXT HMI serves it over a network.

A custom widget consumes documented SDK globals on window.__nextHMI__ (see docs/dev/reference/custom-widgets.md). Using a documented interface does not make your widget a derivative work; this document exists so a strict reading of "derivative work" cannot claim otherwise.

What this does not do: it grants no rights in the platform code beyond the AGPL. Modify, fork, redistribute, or network-serve a modified platform and the AGPL applies in full, source disclosure included. If that doesn't work for you, see COMMERCIAL.md.