diff --git a/legal/licenses/LB-PSL.md b/legal/licenses/LB-PSL.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fa6b998a --- /dev/null +++ b/legal/licenses/LB-PSL.md @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ + LIZARDBYTE PROPRIETARY SOURCE LICENSE + Version 1.0, May 2025 + +Copyright (C) 2025 LizardByte LLC. +Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies +of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. + + PREAMBLE + +The LizardByte Proprietary Source License is designed to allow users to view, +modify, and contribute to the source code while reserving all distribution +and commercialization rights exclusively to LizardByte LLC. + + TERMS AND CONDITIONS + +1. Definitions + + "License" refers to this document. + + "Licensor" refers to LizardByte LLC. + + "Software" refers to the copyrightable work licensed under this License. + + "Contribute" or "Contribution" means any work of authorship, including the + original version of the Software and any modifications or additions to that + Software that is intentionally submitted to the Licensor for inclusion in the + Software. + + "Distribution" means any form of making the Software or modified versions + available to third parties, whether by traditional distribution channels, + digital transmission, Software-as-a-Service, streaming, network access, remote + execution, containerization, virtualization, API access, or any other method + now known or hereafter developed. + + "Circumvention" means any act of bypassing, removing, deactivating, defeating, + or otherwise circumventing technological measures or business logic that + controls access to or enforces limitations on the use of the Software, + including any paid or premium features. + +2. 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