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LIZARDBYTE PROPRIETARY SOURCE LICENSE
Version 1.0, May 2025

Copyright (C) 2025 LizardByte LLC. <https://app.lizardbyte.dev/>
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. Grant of Rights

Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, the Licensor grants you
a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to:

a. View, use, and modify the Software for personal, non-commercial purposes.

b. Create derivative works based on the Software for personal use only.

c. Contribute modifications or improvements to the original Software through
the official contribution channels established by the Licensor.

3. Restrictions

a. Exclusive Distribution Rights: All distribution rights of the Software or
derivative works, in any form, are reserved exclusively to the Licensor.
You may not distribute the Software or derivative works to any third party
by any means, regardless of whether such distribution is for commercial,
educational, individual, charitable, or any other purpose.

b. Service Prohibition: You may not provide or make available the Software
as a service, including but not limited to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS),
managed service, hosted service, cloud service, streaming service,
subscription service, or any other service model now known or later
developed.

c. Circumvention Prohibition: You may not circumvent, remove, or disable any
licensing, payment, feature restriction, or access control mechanisms in
the Software, including mechanisms that limit functionality to paid
subscribers or premium users.

d. No Commercial Use: You may not use the Software for any commercial purpose
without explicit written permission from the Licensor.

e. No Selling: You may not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise exchange the
Software for value, whether monetary or otherwise.

f. No Competitive Use: You may not use the Software to develop, test, or
support any product or service that competes, directly or indirectly,
with the Licensor's products or services.

g. No Trademark Use: This License does not grant permission to use the trade
names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the Licensor, except
as required for reasonable and customary attribution.

h. No Sublicensing: You may not grant any sublicenses to the Software.

4. Contributions

Any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Software shall be
under the terms and conditions of this License, without any additional terms
or conditions. By submitting a Contribution, you irrevocably agree to these
terms and acknowledge that the Licensor becomes the exclusive owner of the
Contribution. The Licensor may require a separate Contributor License
Agreement before accepting any Contribution.

5. Attribution

All copies or substantial portions of the Software must include a copy of this
License and the following attribution notice:

"Contains software developed by LizardByte LLC (https://app.lizardbyte.dev)."

6. Disclaimer of Warranty

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

7. Termination

This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically upon
any breach by you of the terms of this License. Upon termination, you must
cease all use of the Software and destroy all copies in your possession.

8. Legal Enforcement

The Licensor reserves the right to enforce this License through legal action,
including but not limited to seeking injunctive relief, damages, and attorney's
fees for any violation of these terms.

9. Miscellaneous

a. If any provision of this License is held to be unenforceable, such provision
shall be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable.

b. This License represents the complete agreement concerning the subject matter
hereof.

c. This License shall be governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the
Licensor is located, excluding such jurisdiction's conflicts of law provisions.

d. No waiver of any provision of this License shall be deemed a further or
continuing waiver of such term or any other term.