FAQ
How is Timefold Solver Licensed?
Timefold Solver Community Edition is open source software, released under the Apache License 2.0. This license is very liberal and allows reuse for commercial purposes. Read the layman’s explanation.
Timefold Solver Enterprise Edition is a commercial product that offers additional features to scale out to very large datasets. To find out more, see Enterprise Edition section of this documentation.
Can Timefold Solver be included in a (GraalVM) native application?
Yes. Timefold Solver has been tested with Quarkus and Spring Boot plugins to create native executables. Native executables typically have a fast startup time and reduced memory consumption. However, given the nature of the workloads running with the solver, these benefits are often overshadowed by slower solving speeds due to lack of JIT optimizations.
Read more about this in our blog post.