Business Source License 1.1
- Licensor
- Satoshi Ltd. (Hong Kong SAR)
- Licensed Work
- alpi — the source code in this repository at the time the Licensed Work is accessed. The Licensed Work is © 2026 Satoshi Ltd.
- Additional Use Grant
- You may make production use of the Licensed Work, provided your use does not include offering the Licensed Work, or any derivative work based on it, to third parties on a hosted, embedded, or managed-service basis. Natural persons using the Licensed Work on machines they personally control are covered by this grant for all personal, research, and non-commercial purposes. Legal entities (companies, organisations, partnerships, trusts, government bodies) are covered only for internal evaluation, development, and experimentation — production deployment by a legal entity requires a commercial licence from the Licensor.
- Change Date
- 2030-04-23
- Change License
- Apache License, Version 2.0
For information about alternative licensing arrangements for the Licensed Work, please contact: info@satoshi-ltd.com
Terms
The Licensor hereby grants you the right to copy, modify, create 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 fourth anniversary of the first publicly available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed Work under this Licence, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby grants you rights under the terms of the Change Licence, and the rights granted in the paragraph above terminate.
If your use of the Licensed Work does not comply with the requirements currently in effect as described in this Licence, you must purchase a commercial licence from the Licensor, its affiliated entities, or authorised resellers, or you must refrain from using the Licensed Work.
All copies of the original and modified Licensed Work, and derivative works of the Licensed Work, are subject to this Licence. This Licence applies separately for each version of the Licensed Work and the Change Date may vary for each version of the Licensed Work released by Licensor.
You must conspicuously display this Licence on each original or modified copy of the Licensed Work. If you receive the Licensed Work in original or modified form from a third party, the terms and conditions set forth in this Licence apply to your use of that work.
Any use of the Licensed Work in violation of this Licence will automatically terminate your rights under this Licence for the current and all other versions of the Licensed Work.
This Licence does not grant you any right in any trademark or logo of Licensor or its affiliates (provided that you may use a trademark or logo of Licensor as expressly required by this Licence).
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE LICENSED WORK IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. LICENSOR HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
MariaDB hereby grants you permission to use this Licence's text to licence your works, and to refer to it using the trademark "Business Source Licence", as long as you comply with the Covenants of Licensor below.
Covenants of Licensor
In consideration of the right to use this Licence's text and the "Business Source Licence" name and trademark, Licensor covenants to MariaDB, and to all other recipients of the Licensed Work to be provided by Licensor:
1. To specify as the Change Licence the GPL Version 2.0 or any later version, or a licence that is compatible with GPL Version 2.0 or a later version, where "compatible" means that software provided under the Change Licence can be included in a program with software provided under GPL Version 2.0 or a later version. Licensor may specify additional Change Licences without limitation.
2. To either: (a) specify an additional grant of rights to end users that is at least as permissive as the rights granted under this Licence on the Change Date, or (b) require that the Licensed Work be released under the Change Licence, and in no event later than the Change Date.
3. To specify a Change Date.
4. Not to modify this Licence in any other way.
Notice
The Business Source Licence (this document, or the "Licence") is not an Open Source licence. However, the Licensed Work will eventually be made available under an Open Source Licence, as stated in this Licence.