Maru Remix License docs

Draft, 2026-10-18. This page states the intent of the Maru Remix License in plain language. It is not yet legal text and will change after legal review. Until the final version is published, it does not replace the beta terms on Licensing.

New modules start under the Maru Remix License, version 1.0 (maru-remix-1.0). Studio and maru create show it at creation, and you can pick another licence at any time before or after you publish.

What anyone on Maru may do

Remix the module on Maru. Open it in Studio, change it, and publish the remix to their profile.
Use it to make music. Audio, MIDI and presets you make with any module belong to you, including for commercial releases. The licence covers the module, not what you make with it.

What a remix keeps

Credit, automatically. Every remix links to the module it came from, and Maru keeps the full lineage on the module page. A remix cannot remove or hide that link.
The same licence. A remix of a Maru Remix License module is published under the Maru Remix License.

What it does not allow

Redistributing the source or the built module outside Maru, unless the author grants that separately or picks an open licence such as MIT or CC-BY-4.0.
Removing credit or presenting someone else's module as your own.

Choosing something else

Pick All rights reserved or Proprietary download to switch remixing off. Open licences (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC, MIT, Apache-2.0) also allow remixing under their own terms, including outside Maru.

This is not the plug-in licence that decides which computers can open a paid plug-in; that is described in Plug-in licensing.

Open questions before 1.0 is final

Whether a remix of a paid module may be sold, and whether a share of a paid remix's revenue goes to the modules it came from.
Whether a remix may be published privately or must stay public.
Whether the author may withdraw remix permission for future remixes, while existing remixes keep theirs.