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Business Source License 1.1

原始碼可見SPDX 標識: BUSL-1.1OSI ✗資料更新於 2026年9月26日機器翻譯

白話解讀

原始碼可見:生產使用受“附加使用授權”限制,每個版本在“變更日”(最長 4 年)後轉為開源授權條款。

類比: 櫥窗展示:可以看、可以試用,幾年後這件商品對所有人免費。

優點

  • + 可控制商業使用
  • + 程式碼日後會變成開源

缺點

  • - 不是開源授權條款
  • - 各專案的授權條件不同
  • - 容易引發分叉

使用它的知名專案

圖譜中有 5 個知名專案使用該授權條款。

曾經使用、後來改掉的專案

  • 2024年8月15日CockroachDB→ CockroachDB Software License
  • 2023年11月17日Sentry→ FSL-1.1

允許

  • 修改
  • 私人使用
  • 非生產使用
  • 日後轉為開源

義務

  • 保留版權宣告
  • 衍生作品同協議

限制

  • 不承擔責任
  • 不提供擔保
  • 限制生產使用

極端場景 · 程式碼授權條款

最壞情況雷達圖

最壞情況雷達圖 — BSL-1.112345
  1. 1防白嫖67
  2. 2防閉源75
  3. 3專利保護0
  4. 4企業採納阻力63
  5. 5改協議難度50

由場景矩陣自動計算。分數高表示該屬性更強,不代表“更好”。

與其他授權條款對比…

官方原文

只有官方文本具有法律效力,本站不自行翻譯授權條款原文。

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
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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
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resellers, or you must refrain from using the Licensed Work.

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for each version of the Licensed Work released by Licensor.

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Any use of the Licensed Work in violation of this License will automatically
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Licensor or its affiliates (provided that you may use a trademark or logo of
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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.