Company & Licensing Guide
This guide is for the people deciding whether to adopt LyEve: engineering leadership, procurement and security review. LyEve is a headless CMS you host yourself, on your infrastructure and your database, so your content, users and files stay in systems you control.
Your first hour
Section titled “Your first hour”- Core concepts: what LyEve does, in six ideas.
- Licensing and tiers: what runs free with no time limit, what each paid feature is called, and what happens when a license expires.
- Pricing: plans, and features you can buy on their own.
- Source code: which parts are MIT, which are commercial, and which repositories you can read today.
- Security controls: each control as a route or setting a reviewer can check on a running install.
- Data protection: subject access and erasure, retention, legal holds, residency and masking.
Common jobs
Section titled “Common jobs”| I need to... | Read |
|---|---|
| Know what the free tier includes and where it stops | Licensing and tiers |
| Know what a license adds | What a license adds |
| Confirm a signed license works with no network at all | Verify offline |
| Answer a security questionnaire | Security controls |
| Answer a privacy review | Data protection |
| Keep data in one region | Data residency |
| Prove who changed what | Audit log |
| Connect our identity provider | SAML single sign-on, OAuth sign-in, SCIM provisioning |
| Estimate what running it costs | Free-tier overview and Deployment |
| See what operating it involves | Operator guide |
| See what building on it involves | Developer guide |
Three things to know
Section titled “Three things to know”- One image for every tier. Every install runs the same engine image, and the license decides which paid features run and which free ceilings it lifts. Moving between tiers is a key change, not a migration.
- The free tier is for production. It has no time limit, and an expired license never takes a free feature away. A paid feature that stops keeps its data.
- Nothing extra to run. A license is verified on the instance. There is no license server to host, no sidecar and no agent. A license key, as opposed to a signed token, is exchanged for a token at start, and that exchange sends the key and a random install id, nothing else.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Features: every feature, and whether it is free.
- lyeve.com/contact: support and sales questions.