Keyman is free and open source
Keyman is completely free to use on all devices! SIL Global does not charge any license fees for using Keyman.
- This change took place in August 2017 after SIL Global acquired Keyman from Tavultesoft Pty Ltd.
Open Source
Keyman is licensed under the MIT License. The MIT License is a short, permissive software license. Basically, you can do whatever you want as long as you include the original copyright and license notice in any copy of the software/source.
SIL Global have chosen the MIT License in order to provide you, the users of Keyman with the greatest possible freedom to work in your language.
All 'release' quality Keyman keyboards in the Keyman keyboard repository are licensed under the MIT License. All lexical models in the Keyman lexical model repository are also licensed under the MIT License. Copyright for these keyboards and lexical models belongs to many different authors.