# License question about consulting

**URL:** <https://community.n8n.io/t/license-question-about-consulting/3577>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [December 24, 2020, 11:12am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/license-question-about-consulting/3577 "2020-12-24T11:12:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![troglotit](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/troglotit/32/2861_2.png) [@troglotit](https://community.n8n.io/u/troglotit)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 11:12am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/license-question-about-consulting/3577/1 "2020-12-24T11:12:28Z")

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Awesome work! I totally understand why license restricts selling the software. But “Selling” it as a freelancer/consultant to my client to use n8n is also prohibited. Do I understand that correctly?

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**Author:** ![jan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/jan/32/9_2.png) [@jan](https://community.n8n.io/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/license-question-about-consulting/3577/2 "2020-12-24T12:08:59Z")

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Welcome to the community @troglotit!

We have a section which talks about that here:

> **[FAQ | n8n Docs](https://docs.n8n.io/reference/faq.html#is-n8n-open-source)**
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> n8n is an extendable workflow automation tool that enables you to connect anything to everything via its open, fair-code model.

Hope that helps.