# Open Source: Usage/Licence/Community Edition? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [September 21, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-source-usage-licence-community-edition/22605 "2016-09-21T16:48:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Dan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dan1)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-source-usage-licence-community-edition/22605/1 "2016-09-21T16:48:32Z")
Hi, sorry, stupid question… does Open Source here mean that I can use Ansible and build upon it for my business project without buying the product? On the homepage I only find “free trial”, not “community edition”… Thx for any advice Dan ---
**Author:** ![Dan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Dan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dan1)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-source-usage-licence-community-edition/22605/2 "2016-09-21T17:54:19Z")
Hi, read and read…so could it be that I can use Ansible for my project under the open source licence…just “Tower” is a product I would need to buy from Red Hat…did I understand this correctly? Thx Dan ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Janssen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Mark\_Janssen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Janssen)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-source-usage-licence-community-edition/22605/3 "2016-09-22T09:21:49Z")
Ansible is covered by the GNU GPL version 3, as seen here: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/COPYING](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/COPYING) If you distribute a modified version you need to release the source-code under the GPL-3 as well. Otherwise… speak to your lawyer 😉