Service Tech Vault™
Useful technical tools should be available to people because they need them—not because they can afford expensive software.
Service Tech Vault software is therefore available without a software license fee under the Service Tech Vault Community License v1.0.
The principle
Individuals, technicians, schools, nonprofits, governments and businesses may use covered Service Tech Vault software subject to STVCL-1.0.
Technicians and businesses may charge reasonable fees for genuine installation, programming, configuration, administration, hosting, training, customization and support services.
You may not remove Service Tech Vault attribution and present the original software as something you created.
You may not rebrand Service Tech Vault software as your own proprietary software product and commercially sell or license it without permission.
Why this license exists
Service Tech Vault was built around a simple idea: useful technology should help everyone—from people with very limited resources to large organizations.
The license is intended to preserve free access to the software while allowing technicians, programmers, administrators and service providers to earn reasonable compensation for real work they perform.
What it does not permit is taking the Service Tech Vault project, removing its identity, claiming the work as somebody else's creation, and turning the software itself into an unauthorized proprietary commercial product.
Copyright & trademark notice
© 2026 Service Tech Vault. All rights reserved except as expressly permitted by STVCL-1.0.
Service Tech Vault™ and ServiceTechVault™ are claimed trademarks used to identify the Service Tech Vault project, software, tools and related services.
The ™ symbol denotes a claimed trademark. It does not represent a federal trademark registration. The ® symbol is not used unless and until an applicable mark is federally registered.
Third-party intellectual property
Third-party manufacturer names, product names, trademarks, documentation, software and other intellectual property remain the property of their respective owners.
Service Tech Vault's license applies only to material the Service Tech Vault rights holder has authority to license.
References to manufacturers or products generally identify equipment, compatibility, interoperability, repair, service or technical information and do not by themselves imply sponsorship or endorsement.
Service Tech Vault Community License v1.0
The controlling license text is the plain-text STVCL-1.0 file.
Read the complete STVCL-1.0 license
Read the intellectual-property notice
Read third-party notices
Legal note
STVCL-1.0 is a custom community/source-available license. It is not represented as an OSI-approved open-source license.
Nothing on this page grants rights to intellectual property owned by third parties.