Commercial License Terms

Last updated 9 October 2026

These terms apply to every paid commercial license for Auto Tournament. Buying is also covered by the Terms of Sale.

1. Who these terms are between

Sivert Gullberg Hansen, trading as Gullberg Hansen Consulting (ENK, org. nr. 938 566 674), “we”, and the business or organization named as the licensee in the license confirmation, “you”.

2. How this license relates to PolyForm

The software is published under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 ↗, which allows non-commercial use for free. A commercial license adds the right to use the software commercially, within the limits below. Everything else stays under PolyForm. Where these terms and PolyForm differ on your commercial use, these terms apply.

3. What software is covered

One license covers the Auto Tournament platform, CS2 Server Manager, Ready Up and its plugins, and the game packs. Selling Auto Tournament as a service (hosting it for many clients, or reselling it) isn't covered by these terms and needs a separate written agreement.

4. The server limit

Your license allows no more than its number of game servers running the licensed software at any one time, spares, practice, matchmaking and test servers included, whatever the game. The number is in your license key. You can change it at any time in the console (section 9).

The software enforces the limit: with a paid license key it won't create or start a game server above the limit. Running servers and matches are never stopped because of it. Getting around the limit, for example by changing the software's license checks, breaks these terms and infringes our copyright. Non-commercial use under PolyForm has no server limit.

More than 500 servers needs a separate written agreement.

5. Monthly and yearly licenses

• Monthly and yearly licenses are subscriptions. They start when you pay and renew by themselves every month or every 12 months, at the price in force for your number of servers, until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time in the console. The license then runs to the end of the period you have paid for and doesn't renew.
• A monthly or yearly license is valid while it is paid. It includes every update released while it runs. When it ends, your commercial rights end: to use the software commercially again, buy a new license. Your rights under PolyForm continue.
• Your license key stays the same when the license renews or you change the number of servers. Installed products get the new end date and server count at their daily check-in (section 18).

6. Founding supporter licenses

Founding supporter licenses are sold to the first 35 buyers, or until 31 March 2027, whichever comes first. Checkout stops offering them after that.

• Lifetime updates: you pay once and get commercial use, for the events in section 7, of every version we release, for as long as we sell the software your pack covers, including new major versions and renamed successors of it. There is no yearly fee, and the versions you have stay yours to use for good.
• Updates means every new version of the software (section 3): fixes, CS2 compatibility updates and new features. It doesn't include other products or services we sell separately.
• Server count: a founding supporter license is a fixed pack of 5, 20, 50, 100, 200 servers, each with its own number of places (5: 10, 20: 10, 50: 8, 100: 5, 200: 2), and the servers you bought stay yours with no further payment. More servers can be added on top as extra servers, monthly or yearly (section 9).
• If we ever stop selling it (not offered for a full year), you keep every version you have, nothing can lock you out, and we release a final build without the license check.
• CS2 updates can break older versions; install our updates to stay current. We don't promise that an older version keeps working after a CS2 update.

7. Who may use the license

The license covers the named licensee and its contractors, for the licensee's own events and events the licensee operates for clients (for example a LAN that hires you to run its servers). The server limit applies at any one time, and we may ask which events you ran if we have a reason to check.

You can't transfer, resell or sublicense the license.

One license key works on one installation of the Auto Tournament platform. The first installation that checks in with it takes it; another installation using the same key is refused. CS2 Server Manager and Ready Up hosts under that installation don't count as installations, only as servers. To move the key to a new installation, use "Move to another install" in the console. If a key gets out, make a new one in the console: the old key keeps working for one more day, then stops.

8. Late payment

If a renewal payment fails, we try the card again and email you. The license stays valid for 13 days after the last day you paid for. We remind you by email on the day the payment fails, after 7 days and after 13 days, and your admins see a warning in the products.

If it is still unpaid after 13 days, the license expires and the licensed software stops working for everyone using that installation, admins and players included, until it is paid. Paying turns it back on. Your data is never deleted because of this. Founding supporter licenses and licenses bought before pricing v4 never stop this way.

9. Changing the number of servers

You can raise or lower the number of servers in the console at any time. More servers apply right away, and you pay the difference for the rest of the period. Fewer servers also apply right away; the lower price starts at your next payment, and there is no credit or refund for the rest of the current period.

A founding supporter license can have extra servers on top of the servers you bought. The extra servers are a monthly or yearly subscription at the price in section 19, with the discount for your total number of servers (bought plus extra) and no founding supporter discount. They follow these terms for subscriptions, late payment included, with one difference: the license itself never stops. If the extra servers are cancelled or stay unpaid, the license goes back to the servers you bought.

10. When the license starts

For card payments the license starts at payment: your license key is shown right after checkout, emailed to the address you paid with, and can be seen again any time by signing in to the console with that email. For invoice orders we email your license key once the invoice is paid. The key names the licensee, the number of servers and how long it runs, and it is part of the license together with these terms.

11. Who needs a license

If you make money using the tools, you need a license. That includes an organizer who makes a profit, any business, and a paid operator or contractor, even one hired by an event that is itself free.

No license is needed when nobody makes money using the tools: all entry fees and sponsor money go back into the event, and no organizer, volunteer or helper is paid or takes profit. Personal and hobby use is free under PolyForm's personal-use terms. Organizers of such events can ask us for a free written confirmation; it is optional.

Charities, schools and universities, public research, public safety or health and environmental protection organizations, and government bodies need no license: PolyForm lets them use the software free.

12. Refunds

We refund in full if we can't verify the buyer. Otherwise a period you have paid for isn't refunded, except as the law requires; cancelling stops the next renewal. A cancelled event doesn't give a right to a refund.

13. Warranty and liability

The software comes as is. We don't promise that it is free of errors or suits your event. Our total liability under the license is limited to the price you paid for it in the last 12 months, and we aren't liable for indirect losses such as lost income or a cancelled event. These limits don't apply to damage we cause on purpose or through gross negligence.

14. Breaking these terms

If you break these terms, for example by getting around the server limit, we tell you in writing. If you don't put it right within 32 days, we may end the commercial license without a refund and claim compensation under the Norwegian Copyright Act (åndsverkloven § 81).

15. Commercial use without a license

If we notify you in writing that your use is commercial and unlicensed, PolyForm gives you 32 days (first notice only) to come into compliance: stop the commercial use or buy a license, and put right past use. To settle past use, we offer a back-dated license at the normal price plus 50%. If you don't come into compliance within 32 days, all your PolyForm licenses end and we may claim compensation under the Norwegian Copyright Act (åndsverkloven § 81).

16. Law and courts

Norwegian law applies. Disputes go to Vestre Innlandet tingrett.

17. Changes

We may update these terms. A license keeps the terms that applied when it was bought; a monthly or yearly license follows the terms in force at each renewal, and we email you before a change that affects you takes effect. Price changes apply to renewals at the earliest 30 days after we tell you, and never to a period you have paid for or a founding supporter license.

Licenses bought under earlier pricing (per seat, packs per event or yearly, before October 2026) keep their terms: they aren't enforced by server count beyond what their pack allowed and never stop for late payment.

18. License checks

An installation with a license key saved checks in with us once a day (and at startup and when the key changes). It sends the key (to check its signature), a random installation id, its public address, the number of servers, the software version and a few activity counts, never player data; the details are in the privacy policy. The answer carries the license's current end date and server count (signed by us), and whether the license is active, late, expired, replaced by a new key or in use on another installation. Before an installation creates game servers, it asks us whether they fit the license: every installation using the key shares one limit. Creating servers with a paid key needs a check-in from the last 3 days; servers already set up keep running without one. For an installation without internet, the console gives an offline lease: pasted next to the key, it lets the installation create servers without a check-in for 30 days. If we can't be reached, the software uses the last answer it got and the dates in the key, so a short outage on our side never stops your event. Without a key, nothing is sent.

19. Prices and contact

Current prices (Pricing v4 (October 2026)), excluding VAT: Platform + 5 servers: €29 a month; Every server after that: €2.50 a month; From 20 servers: 10% off the whole price; From 40 servers: 14% off the whole price; From 100 servers: 18% off the whole price; From 200 servers: 22% off the whole price; From 350 servers: 26% off the whole price. The discount is on the whole price at that number of servers. Yearly costs 10 months. A founding supporter license costs 2 years of yearly for its pack of servers; extra servers on top of it cost €2.50 a month each, less the discount for the total. Each price is then rounded to the nearest whole euro, less one cent. For example, 40 servers cost €99.99 a month. Prices exclude VAT. We're not VAT-registered, so no VAT is charged today. If we register, VAT is added to new purchases and renewals at the applicable rate. See Licensing & pricing.

Questions: [email protected].