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To create a sustainable business over OSS, we're considering changing our source code license from MIT to the Business Source License version 1.1 (BUSL 1.1). This license allows software providers like us to control how their source code is commercialized while still publishing the source code to the community. The BUSL 1.1 was originally introduced by the founders of MySQL and MariaDB, and first applied to MariaDB products in 2013. It was updated and clarified in 2017 as version 1.1, after consultation and advice from Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

BUSL 1.1 is a source-available license that sets three tenets to the license, some of which are customizable and specified by each licensor.

BUSL v.1.1 will always allow copying, modification, redistribution, non-commercial use, and commercial use in a non-production context.
By default, BUSL does not allow for production use unless the licensor provides a limited right as an “Additional Use Grant” – this piece is customizable and explained below.
BUSL provides a Change Date usually between one to four years in which the BUSL license converts to a Change License that is open source, which can be GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), Apache, etc.

At Elegant, we're considering our Additional Use Grant to allow BUSL-licensed Elegant work in production when your application is built for demo purposes, educational purposes, non-commercial reasons, or for a non-profit organization. We have set the Change Date to three (3) years, and the Change License to GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), Version 3.0.

A draft BUSL LICENSE we consider is as follows:

Business Source License 1.1

License text copyright (c) 2022 MariaDB Corporation Ab, All Rights Reserved.
“Business Source License” is a trademark of MariaDB Corporation Ab.

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Licensor:             IKIGAI Ventures BV

Licensed Work:        pwa-asset-generator version 7.0.x
                      The Licensed Work is (c) 2023 IKIGAI Ventures BV

Additional Use Grant: You may use the Licensed Work in production when your application 
                      is built for demo purposes, educational purposes, non-commercial 
                      reasons, or for a non-profit organization.

Change Date:          TBD (3 years after 7.0.x release)

Change License:       GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), Version 3.0

For information about alternative licensing arrangements for the Software,
please visit: https://elegant.app

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.

For more information on the use of the Business Source License for Elegant
products, please visit the Elegant Business Source License FAQ at
https://elegant.app/bsl-faq-elegant.

For more information on the use of the Business Source License generally,
please visit the Adopting and Developing Business Source License FAQ at
https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting.

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Business Source License 1.1

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 and the Change Date may vary
for each version of the Licensed Work released by Licensor.

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 BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE LICENSED WORK IS PROVIDED ON
AN “AS IS” BASIS. LICENSOR HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND
TITLE.

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”.

3. To specify a Change Date.

4. Not to modify this License in any other way.

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