diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index cc958da2..062a8f07 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# PolyForm Perimeter License 1.0.0 +# PolyForm Strict License 1.0.0 - + ## Acceptance @@ -10,38 +10,11 @@ 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. 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. For example: - -> Required Notice: Copyright Asim Aslam (2020) - -## 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. +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. ## Patent License @@ -49,21 +22,26 @@ 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. -## Noncompete +## Noncommercial Purposes -Any purpose is a permitted purpose, except for providing to -others any product that competes with the software. +Any noncommercial purpose is a permitted purpose. -## Competition +## Personal Uses -If you use this software to market a product as a substitute -for the functionality or value of the software, it competes -with the software. A product may compete regardless how it is -designed or deployed. For example, a product may compete even -if it provides its functionality via any kind of interface -(including services, libraries or plug-ins), even if it is -ported to a different platforms or programming languages, -and even if it is provided free of charge. +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. + +## Noncommercial Organizations + +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. ## Fair Use @@ -108,9 +86,6 @@ 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.