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Commercial

Is there a trial version?

There is no free trial.

But mutant offers to refund the last monthly payment on cancellation. Basically a rolling trial on monthly plans.

Yearly and custom plans do not offer any refunds but come with discounts.

Hint: Start out with monthly, and upgrade once you like it.

Also mutants full feature set is available for free on opensource use.

Can I get a discount?

Discounts are available through yearly plans, and custom volume quotes.

What is the license?

Check the LICENSE file in mutants repository root.

How does commercial licensing work?

Every organization running mutant on commercial code needs to puchase a subscription per developer (identified by their unique git author emails). This per subscription is valid for any number of private repositories.

Depending on your plan subscriptions renew monthly or yearly.

After purchase you get access to a custom rubygem hosted on mutants license server that enables mutants functionality in commercial repositories.

How do I determine the number of required subscriptions?

Collect the git author email from each of your developers that need to use mutant. Use git config --get user.email. Count that list.

Mutant on CI will work on any commit authored by a developer in that list.

So a designer, who contributes to your repository, but never touches Ruby/Mutant: Will not be forced to get a mutant subscription.

What happens if my subsription lapses?

If your credit card cannot be charged, even after retries: The subscription will be considered inactive and you loose access to mutants license gem. Which prevents bundle install and adjacent commands to succeed.

Please note that pricing can chance. Once you purchase a subscription, you get that price forever as long you pay on time. If your subscription expires for a non-payment, you will lose that pricing and need to repurchase at current pricing.

What does the license require me to do?

Your purchase gets you unique access credentials for accessing the license gem which enables mutant on a private repository. The license requires you to keep these access credentials private.

If your access credentials are ever found to be publicized:

  1. You get a warning email with details. You need to remove the content and will get new new credentials being generated. The old credentials will stop working immediately so you'll need to update your Gemfile.
  2. If your credentials are publicized a second time, we reserve the right to permanently remove access (but won't unless it's really egregious - sloppy contractors happen).

Do I have to share the credentials with all of my developers?

In general yes. The intention is that the license details gets checked into the Gemfile. This only gives access to mutants funcionality, your billing account is separate and individuall developers cannot update the subscription.

Can I get a refund?

Yes, for monthly subscription the last paid month gets refunded on cancellation. Email mbj@schirp-dso.

How do I update my info?

Email mbj@schirp-dso with the requested changes.

Can I request a change to the license terms?

Mutant is sold as is. Pricing becomes negotiatable over 20 developers.

License terms may be amended for even bigger customers.

Disputing a Charge

Customers occasionally dispute a charge, especially if on an annual subscription; team turnover can mean that an infrequent charge is not recognized. I never fight disputes; the charge will be refunded and the subscription cancelled immediately.

If a customer wishes to regain access they must acknowledge their error in disputing the charge and pay any fees associated with the dispute.

Purchasing via Resellers

Resellers are welcome to purchase Mutant for their customers. They must provide a distinct email address for each customer and be able to pay via credit card or invoice with no manual process on my part. I will not allow resellers who require annual handholding or manual processing.

Privacy and Information Usage

Schirp DSO LTD only collects enough customer information provide its services which include:

  • Customer data for for billing purposes:
    • Billing Company Name
    • Billing address
    • Billing email address.
    • Tax-ID
    • Contact email address (if different from billing address)
  • Per developer: The developers git author emaill address.
  • Standard HTTP logging for the license server with 14d expiry.

Mutant runs exclusively on your developers machines. Or your CI. The only time mutant calls a service operated by Schirp DSO LTD: Is on bundle install. Where bundler sends a HTTP request with your license key to the license server.

BTW: As mutant does NOT control the HTTP call side (bundler does instead) there cannot be any information leak being caused by mutant. Apart from HTTP logs at the license server.

At no point in time Schirp DSO LTD gets access to your source code, your customers data or other sensitive material.

Should mutant gain more features that would enable features such as distributed analysis and reporting, these features will be opt in, with a big warning.

Customer information is never shared or sold to anyone.

3rd party services used are:

  • Stripe for subscription, credit card and SEPA direct debits.
  • Transferwise for receiving SEPA and ACH transfers.
  • AWS to host the license server.