# MoltenDB License

MoltenDB is dual-licensed:

1. **Free for Startups & Personal Use:** Licensed under the Business Source License (BSL) 1.1 with an Additional Use Grant (see below).
2. **Commercial/Enterprise Use:** For companies exceeding the revenue threshold, or companies wishing to provide MoltenDB as a managed cloud service, a commercial license is required. Contact: [maximilian.both27@outlook.com]

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## Business Source License 1.1

License text copyright (c) 2017 MariaDB Corporation Ab, All Rights Reserved.
"Business Source License" is a trademark of MariaDB Corporation Ab.

**Licensor:** Maximilian Both.
**Licensed Work:** The MoltenDB source code and compiled binaries.
**Change Date:** 3 years after the publication of each specific version/release.
**Change License:** MIT License

### Additional Use Grant

You may make use of the Licensed Work (including running it in production) provided that your organization (including any parent companies, subsidiaries, and affiliates) meets **ALL** of the following conditions:

1. **Revenue Limit:** Your organization's total annual gross revenue does not exceed $5,000,000 USD (or equivalent).
2. **Not a Managed Service:** You do not offer the Licensed Work to third parties as a hosted or managed service (e.g., Database-as-a-Service, Backend-as-a-Service), regardless of your company's revenue.

If you meet these conditions, the Licensor grants you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to reproduce, use, merge, publish, distribute, and modify the Licensed Work.

If your organization exceeds the Revenue Limit, or if you wish to provide the Licensed Work as a managed service, you must purchase a Commercial License from the Licensor.

### BSL General Terms

If your use of the Licensed Work does not comply with the Additional Use Grant, you may still use the Licensed Work strictly for non-production, internal testing, and development purposes.

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 License, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby grants you rights under the terms of the Change License (MIT License), and the terms of this Business Source License will terminate for that specific version.