Business Source License 1.1
Free except for competing use; converts to an open license on a fixed date.
License text
Business Source License 1.1
License text copyright (c) 2017 MariaDB Corporation Ab, All Rights Reserved.
"Business Source License" is a trademark of MariaDB Corporation Ab.
Parameters
Licensor: Legal name of the copyright holder
Licensed Work: e.g. "MyProject Version 1.0 or later"
Additional Use Grant: Who is allowed to use it beyond the base grant — leave blank for "None"
Change Date: e.g. 2030-01-01
Change License: Must be GPL-2.0-or-later or a GPL-2.0-compatible license (a Covenant of Licensor — see below)
For information about alternative licensing arrangements for the Licensed
Work, please contact the Licensor.
Notice
The Business Source License (this document, or the "License") is not an
Open Source license. However, the Licensed Work will eventually be made
available under an Open Source License, as stated in this License.
Terms
The Licensor hereby grants you the right to copy, modify, create derivative
works, redistribute, and make non-production use of the Licensed Work. The
Licensor may make an Additional Use Grant, above, permitting limited
production use.
Effective on the Change Date, or the fourth anniversary of the first publicly
available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed Work under this
License, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby grants you rights under
the terms of the Change License, and the rights granted in the paragraph
above terminate.
If your use of the Licensed Work does not comply with the requirements
currently in effect as described in this License, you must purchase a
commercial license from the Licensor, its affiliated entities, or authorized
resellers, or you must refrain from using the Licensed Work.
All copies of the original and modified Licensed Work, and derivative works
of the Licensed Work, are subject to this License. This License applies
separately for each version of the Licensed Work.
You must conspicuously display this License on each original or modified
copy of the Licensed Work. If you receive the Licensed Work in original or
modified form from a third party, the terms and conditions set forth in this
License apply to your use of that work.
Any use of the Licensed Work in violation of this License will automatically
terminate your rights under this License for the current and all other
versions of the Licensed Work.
This License does not grant you any right in any trademark or logo of
Licensor or its affiliates (provided that you may use a trademark or logo of
Licensor as expressly required by this License).
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED ON AN APPLICABLE JURISDICTION, LICENSOR OFFERS THE
LICENSED WORK AS-IS AND AS-AVAILABLE, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE LICENSED WORK, WHETHER EXPRESS,
IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHER. THIS INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES
OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT,
AND THE ABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, ACCURACY, OR THE PRESENCE OR
ABSENCE OF ERRORS, WHETHER OR NOT KNOWN OR DISCOVERABLE. IN NO EVENT WILL
LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ANY LEGAL THEORY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY TYPE ARISING OUT
OF THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OF THE LICENSED WORK, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
MariaDB hereby grants you permission to use this License's text to license
your works, and to refer to it using the trademark "Business Source
License", as long as you comply with the Covenants of Licensor below.
Covenants of Licensor
In consideration of the right to use this License's text and the "Business
Source License" name and trademark, Licensor covenants to MariaDB, and to
all other recipients of the licensed work to be provided by Licensor:
1. To specify as the Change License the GPL Version 2.0 or any later
version, or a license that is compatible with GPL Version 2.0 or a later
version, where "compatible" means that software provided under the
Change License can be included in a program with software provided
under GPL Version 2.0 or a later version. Licensor may specify
additional Change Licenses without limitation.
2. To either: (a) specify an additional grant of rights to use that does
not impose any additional restriction on the right granted in this
License, as the Additional Use Grant; or (b) insert the text "None" to
specify that no additional grant of rights is made.
3. To specify a Change Date.
4. Not to modify this License in any other way.