Business Source License 1.1

Additional Use Grant

You may use the Licensed Work for non-commercial and personal purposes, including self-hosting for private use, internal use within an organization (not offered as a service to third parties), educational use, research, and contributing to the project (including creating forks for non-commercial purposes).

A commercial license from the Licensor is required if you:

• Offer the Licensed Work as a commercial product or paid service to third parties
• Offer the Licensed Work as a hosted or managed service (SaaS)
• Embed the Licensed Work in commercial hardware or appliances for sale

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).

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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 Apache License, Version 2.0, or a license that is compatible with GPL Version 2.0 or a later version.
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 a Change Date.
3. Not to modify this License in any other way.

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.

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Summary

(Not part of the license)

What you CAN do:

• Use OpenOcto for personal and non-commercial purposes
• Self-host for private use at home
• Use within a company or organization for internal purposes (not offered to third parties)
• Use for education and research
• Copy, modify, fork, and create derivative works for non-commercial purposes
• Contribute to the project

What REQUIRES a commercial license:

• Offering OpenOcto as part of a commercial product or paid service to third parties
• Offering OpenOcto as a hosted or managed service (SaaS)
• Embedding OpenOcto in commercial hardware or appliances for sale

After the Change Date (2030-03-30):

• The code becomes available under the Apache License 2.0
• All restrictions above are removed for that version