diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 062a8f0..bd8dd2a 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# PolyForm Strict License 1.0.0 +# PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0 - + ## Acceptance @@ -10,11 +10,38 @@ your licenses. ## Copyright License -The licensor grants you a copyright license for the software -to do everything you might do with the software that would -otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright in it for any -permitted purpose, other than distributing the software or -making changes or new works based on the software. +The licensor grants you a copyright license for the +software to do everything you might do with the software +that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright +in it for any permitted purpose. However, you may +only distribute the software according to [Distribution +License](#distribution-license) and make changes or new works +based on the software according to [Changes and New Works +License](#changes-and-new-works-license). + +## Distribution License + +The licensor grants you an additional copyright license +to distribute copies of the software. Your license +to distribute covers distributing the software with +changes and new works permitted by [Changes and New Works +License](#changes-and-new-works-license). + +## Notices + +You must ensure that anyone who gets a copy of any part of +the software from you also gets a copy of these terms or the +URL for them above, as well as copies of any plain-text lines +beginning with `Required Notice:` that the licensor provided +with the software. + +Required Notice: Copyright Micro Services, Inc. (https://m3o.com) + +## Changes and New Works License + +The licensor grants you an additional copyright license to +make changes and new works based on the software for any +permitted purpose. ## Patent License @@ -22,26 +49,50 @@ The licensor grants you a patent license for the software that covers patent claims the licensor can license, or becomes able to license, that you would infringe by using the software. -## Noncommercial Purposes +## Noncompete -Any noncommercial purpose is a permitted purpose. +Any purpose is a permitted purpose, except for providing any +product that competes with the software or any product the +licensor or any of its affiliates provides using the software. -## Personal Uses +## Competition -Personal use for research, experiment, and testing for -the benefit of public knowledge, personal study, private -entertainment, hobby projects, amateur pursuits, or religious -observance, without any anticipated commercial application, -is use for a permitted purpose. +Goods and services compete even when they provide functionality +through different kinds of interfaces or for different technical +platforms. Applications can compete with services, libraries +with plugins, frameworks with development tools, and so on, +even if they're written in different programming languages +or for different computer architectures. Goods and services +compete even when provided free of charge. If you market a +product as a practical substitute for the software or another +product, it definitely competes. -## Noncommercial Organizations +## New Products -Use by any charitable organization, educational institution, -public research organization, public safety or health -organization, environmental protection organization, -or government institution is use for a permitted purpose -regardless of the source of funding or obligations resulting -from the funding. +If you are using the software to provide a product that does +not compete, but the licensor or any of its affiliates brings +your product into competition by providing a new version of +the software or another product using the software, you may +continue using versions of the software available under these +terms beforehand to provide your competing product, but not +any later versions. + +## Discontinued Products + +You may begin using the software to compete with a product +or service that the licensor or any of its affiliates has +stopped providing, unless the licensor includes a plain-text +line beginning with `Licensor Line of Business:` with the +software that mentions that line of business. + +Licensor Line of Business: M3O (https://m3o.com) + +## Sales of Business + +If the licensor or any of its affiliates sells a line of +business developing the software or using the software +to provide a product, the buyer can also enforce +[Noncompete](#noncompete) for that product. ## Fair Use @@ -86,16 +137,24 @@ The **licensor** is the individual or entity offering these terms, and the **software** is the software the licensor makes available under these terms. +A **product** can be a good or service, or a combination +of them. + **You** refers to the individual or entity agreeing to these terms. **Your company** is any legal entity, sole proprietorship, or other kind of organization that you work for, plus all -organizations that have control over, are under the control of, -or are under common control with that organization. **Control** -means ownership of substantially all the assets of an entity, -or the power to direct its management and policies by vote, -contract, or otherwise. Control can be direct or indirect. +its affiliates. + +**Affiliates** means the other organizations than an +organization has control over, is under the control of, or is +under common control with. + +**Control** means ownership of substantially all the assets of +an entity, or the power to direct its management and policies +by vote, contract, or otherwise. Control can be direct or +indirect. **Your licenses** are all the licenses granted to you for the software under these terms.