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A source-available license that prohibits commercial use in competing products or services but otherwise offers freedoms typically associated with permissive open-source licenses. Additionally, the FSL automatically converts into either the MIT or Apache 2.0 license (the licensor can choose) two years after the software version release date.
The party offering the Software under these Terms and Conditions.
The "Software" is each version of the software that we make available under these Terms and Conditions, as indicated by our inclusion of these Terms and Conditions with the Software.
Subject to your compliance with this License Grant and the Patents, Redistribution and Trademark clauses below, we hereby grant you the right to use, copy, modify, create derivative works, publicly perform, publicly display and redistribute the Software for any Permitted Purpose identified below.
A Permitted Purpose is any purpose other than a Competing Use. A Competing Use means use of the Software in or for a commercial product or service that competes with the Software or any other product or service we offer using the Software as of the date we make the Software available.
Competing Uses specifically include using the Software:
Permitted Purposes specifically include using the Software:
To the extent your use for a Permitted Purpose would necessarily infringe our patents, the license grant above includes a license under our patents. If you make a claim against any party that the Software infringes or contributes to the infringement of any patent, then your patent license to the Software ends immediately.
The Terms and Conditions apply to all copies, modifications and derivatives of the Software.
If you redistribute any copies, modifications or derivatives of the Software, you must include a copy of or a link to these Terms and Conditions and not remove any copyright notices provided in or with the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT WILL WE HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE, INCLUDING INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY IN ADVANCE.
Except for displaying the License Details and identifying us as the origin of the Software, you have no right under these Terms and Conditions to use our trademarks, trade names, service marks or product names.
On the second anniversary of the date we make the Software available, the Software will become available under the <MIT> or <Apache 2.0> license. On that date, the Terms and Conditions above automatically terminate and the following terms become effective:
<Licensor to input license text for either MIT or Apache 2.0 license>
You are free to use, copy, or modify the licensed code for non-production purposes
Describes the ability to use the licensed code in a commercial product or service that does not compete with the software
Describes the ability to use the licensed code in a commercial product or service that does compete with the software
Including the full text of license in modified software.
Describes whether the original copyright must be retained.
Describes the scenario where, after a set period of time, the original software license will automatically convert into another software license. This is commonly found in source-available and delayed open-source licenses.
