diff --git a/CLA.txt b/CLA.txt index fe75a25d5..9cf718b15 100644 --- a/CLA.txt +++ b/CLA.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ Thanks for your interest in contributing to Dragonfly™. By contributing to this project in any way form or media you grant DragonflyDB Ltd. and its affiliates a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, free of charge, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, modify, make available, reproduce, make derivatives, publicly display and perform, sublicense, sell, and distribute your contributions and any derivatives thereof as part of Dragonfly™. -You represent that You are legally entitled to grant the above license. You acknowledge that Attos currently distributes Dragonfly™ under the BSL license, and agree that your contribution may be distributed under BSL as part of Dragonfly™. You also represent that your contributions are your original work and that neither the content contributed, nor making the contribution to Dragonfly™ violates any third party’ rights. If you are making this contribution while being engaged by any other company or entity, please make sure you have the necessary permissions required to do so. +You represent that You are legally entitled to grant the above license. You acknowledge that DragonflyDB currently distributes Dragonfly™ under the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL-1.1) license, and agree that your contribution may be distributed under BSL-1.1 as part of Dragonfly™. You also represent that your contributions are your original work and that neither the content contributed, nor making the contribution to Dragonfly™ violates any third party’ rights. If you are making this contribution while being engaged by any other company or entity, please make sure you have the necessary permissions required to do so. diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md index e707bc2d6..81aa15154 100644 --- a/LICENSE.md +++ b/LICENSE.md @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -Dragonfly Business Source License 1.1 +# Dragonfly Business Source License 1.1 -License: BSL 1.1 +License: Business Source License 1.1 [BSL 1.1](https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html) Licensor: DragonflyDB, Ltd. Licensed Work: Dragonfly including the software components, or any portion of them, and any modification. -Change Date: March 15, 2028 +Change Date: September 1, 2028 Change License: [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), as published by the @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ 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 fifth anniversary of the first +Effective on the Change Date, or the forth 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 diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md index 2be91a97f..d2162eaa4 100644 --- a/docs/faq.md +++ b/docs/faq.md @@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ ## What is the license model of Dragonfly? Is it an open source? Dragonfly is released under [BSL 1.1](../LICENSE.md) (Business Source License). -BSL is considered to be "source available" license and it's not strictly open-source license. -We believe that a BSL license is more permissive than licenses like AGPL, and it will allow us to +BSL 1.1 is considered to be "source available" license and it's not strictly open-source license. +We believe that a [BSL 1.1](https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html) license is more permissive +than licenses like AGPL, and it will allow us to provide a competitive commercial service using our technology. In general terms, it means that Dragonfly's code is free to use and free to change as long as you do not sell services directly related to Dragonfly or in-memory datastores.