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1. Scope
The copyright holders offering software, source code, assets, or other material
under these terms ("we") grant the permissions below to every individual, team,
company, organization, and other entity ("you"). "Material" means what we offer
under these terms.
2. Using the product and owning your output
You may use the customer-facing software or product for any purpose, including
commercial purposes, without payment, acknowledgment, or a copy of these terms.
This includes installing, running, accessing, and self-hosting it, and compiling
it solely to run it.
Whatever you create through ordinary use of the product is yours. We claim no
ownership of your output and impose no payment, acknowledgment, or licensing
conditions on it. You may use, sell, share, or license it however you choose.
Material intentionally included in ordinary output is also permitted in that
output on this basis. Merely copying or extracting the underlying codebase or
assetbase is reuse under section 3.
3. Reusing code or assets
Subject to section 4, you have worldwide, nonexclusive permission to copy,
modify, combine, publish, distribute, sublicense, sell, and otherwise reuse any
or all of the Material, for any purpose, in source or other forms.
4. Finding common ground
If you reuse the codebase or assetbase, you are responsible for satisfying one
of the following conditions when you begin that reuse:
- If you cannot reasonably afford a monetary payment, give a simple
acknowledgment of the original software or repository in an appropriate
place, such as your README, source code, website, or documentation. A name
mention or a link is enough. No particular wording or placement is required.
- If you can reasonably afford a monetary payment, sponsor the original
repository through its Sponsor button. You alone decide the minimum
reasonable amount you can afford, considering the circumstances of the entity
reusing the Material. Sponsorship may be one-time or monthly. If you pay any
positive amount, acknowledgment and links are optional.
An entity may satisfy this condition through someone acting on its behalf.
5. Final settlement
Any positive amount successfully paid through that sponsorship route fully
and permanently satisfies the reuse condition for the entity making it or on
whose behalf it is made. Your chosen amount is accepted as sufficient,
regardless of your financial means.
We will not challenge its adequacy, request financial evidence, or demand a
larger amount. A record of the completed payment is sufficient proof; no
separate approval or agreement is needed.
The first completed monthly payment is enough. Later payments are optional,
and you may cancel recurring sponsorship without losing your permissions.
Likewise, an appropriate acknowledgment fully satisfies the condition for an
entity using the acknowledgment option.
Once satisfied, the condition covers all reuse by that entity of Material
offered under these terms in the same original repository, including later
versions. No payment or acknowledgment is required again for additional uses,
copies, releases, or products. The permissions granted are then irrevocable
for that Material.
6. Choosing another license
After satisfying section 4, you may distribute or sublicense the Material,
modified or unmodified, under any license you choose. You do not have to include
these terms, keep this license, or require anyone else to follow it. These
terms require no retained copyright or license notices; the acknowledgment
option in section 4 is the only acknowledgment requirement.
Recipients of Material you distribute under another license follow that
license and owe us no payment or acknowledgment under these terms for that
Material. Relicensing grants permissions; it does not transfer ownership of
the original Material.
7. Existing rights and warranty
These permissions cover only rights we can grant. Separately identified
third-party material remains subject to its own terms, and existing third-party
rights in inputs or output remain unaffected. Nothing here limits rights you
already have under applicable law.
To the extent permitted by law, the Material is provided "as is," without any
warranty, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or
noninfringement. We are not liable for any claim, loss, or damages arising from
the Material or its use.