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Business Source License 1.1

Sorgente disponibile (source-available)Identificatore SPDX: BUSL-1.1OSI ✗Dati aggiornati il 26 set 2026Traduzione automatica

In parole semplici

Source-available: l'uso in produzione è limitato dall'Additional Use Grant e ogni versione diventa una licenza aperta dopo la Change Date (massimo 4 anni).

Analogia: Una vetrina: puoi guardare e provare, e dopo qualche anno l'articolo diventa gratuito per tutti.

Vantaggi

  • + Permette di controllare l'uso commerciale
  • + Il codice diventa open source in seguito

Svantaggi

  • - Non è open source
  • - I termini della concessione variano da progetto a progetto
  • - Può provocare fork

Progetti noti che la usano

5 progetti noti della nostra mappa usano questa licenza.

Progetti che l'hanno abbandonata

Permessi

  • Modifica
  • Uso privato
  • Uso non in produzione
  • Diventa open source in seguito

Condizioni

  • Mantenere la nota di copyright
  • Stessa licenza per le opere derivate

Limitazioni

  • Nessuna responsabilità
  • Nessuna garanzia
  • Uso in produzione limitato

Scenari estremi · Licenze per il codice

Radar dello scenario peggiore

Radar dello scenario peggiore — BSL-1.112345
  1. 1Impedisce lo sfruttamento gratuito67
  2. 2Impedisce i fork chiusi75
  3. 3Protezione dei brevetti0
  4. 4Ostacoli all'adozione63
  5. 5Difficile da rilicenziare50

Calcolato dalla matrice degli scenari. Più alto significa più di quella proprietà, non "migliore".

Confronta con…

Testo ufficiale

Solo il testo ufficiale è giuridicamente vincolante. Non traduciamo i testi delle licenze.

https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html

Business Source License 1.1
Business Source License 1.1

License text copyright © 2017 MariaDB Corporation Ab, All Rights Reserved.
"Business Source License" is a trademark of MariaDB Corporation Ab.

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.