# PicoVolt Public-Source License 1.1

Effective for PicoVolt 2.2.0 as identified in `legal/PUBLIC-RELEASE.json`.
Copyright BEYOND SOFTWARE S.R.L. and the respective contributors.

## 1. Licensor, scope and free distribution

The Licensor is BEYOND SOFTWARE S.R.L., CUI 40707869, Str. Fabricii nr. 11,
ap. 16, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, 400620, Romania; contact@beyond-software.ro.
This license covers only the new proprietary components identified in the
release notice and rights controlled by the Licensor. Previously distributed
Apache-2.0 code, independently licensed contributions and dependencies retain
their own licenses. Their permissions are not narrowed by this document.

The license fee for the identified release is zero. No account, checkout,
click-through acceptance, receipt, activation server or license key is required
to download or exercise the permissions below. These terms accompany the source
and packages. Exercising rights granted by this license is subject to its
conditions; mere receipt of a copy is not represented as contract acceptance.
Rights that mandatory law grants independently are unaffected.

This is a source-available proprietary license, not an open-source license.

## 2. Perpetual permission to use and modify

The Licensor grants everyone a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free,
perpetual license to obtain, inspect, run, copy, back up and modify the covered
Software for personal use, internal business use, and building and operating
their own applications, subject to this license. There are no per-query,
device or deployment limits. Permitted use remains available offline and does
not expire when a subscription, account or support arrangement ends.

Employees and contractors may work with the Software on your behalf under
these terms. Your data, application code and modifications you author remain
yours; this does not remove the conditions on the underlying Software.

## 3. Public repositories, registries and mirrors

Everyone, including GitHub, crates.io, npm, PyPI, Go module proxies, package
indexes, caches and public or private mirrors, may reproduce, host, display,
transmit and redistribute complete unmodified official source and binary
releases, together with their licenses and notices, without further permission
or action by the Licensor. Package-format changes, compression, indexing,
metadata and integrity-signing operations that do not change the Software's
behavior or applicable terms are permitted for that distribution.

No fee may be charged for the Software itself under this permission. Ordinary
charges for network transfer, storage, hosting a mirror, package infrastructure
or media are permitted. Recipients receive this license directly from the
Licensor; a distributor may not impose additional restrictions on these grants.
Public inspection, downloading and unchanged mirroring do not themselves make
a repository, registry or mirror a Competing Database Product.

## 4. Commercial application embedding

You may distribute original or modified object-code copies embedded in your
own applications, and charge for those applications, provided their principal
purpose is not a Competing Database Product as defined below. Games, editors,
product catalogs, inventory systems and business applications are examples of
permitted applications. Operating such applications as paid SaaS is permitted.

Retain the Software's copyright, license and dependency notices. End users
receive permission to run and back up the embedded Software as part of the
application, including offline, for an indefinite period. Those permissions
survive termination of the distributor's license unless an end user separately
violates applicable conditions. You may choose the license for your independent
application code. Source changes to covered proprietary components may be shared
with your employees and contractors for permitted work, or submitted to the
upstream project for review; acceptance of a contribution does not itself
transfer its copyright or change its license.

## 5. Reserved uses and attribution

A "Competing Database Product" is a product whose principal customer-facing
function is providing a general-purpose database engine, database SDK, hosted
database service, or managed distribution of independently supplied database
datasets. An application is not such a product merely because it stores or
searches data, exports user data, or serves its own application datasets.

Except for the unchanged redistribution expressly permitted by section 3, you
need a separate written agreement to sell, rent, sublicense or offer covered
Software as a standalone database/SDK, to distribute modified covered Software
as a standalone engine or SDK, or to provide a Competing Database Product using
covered Software. Redistributing modified proprietary source is not permitted
except for the limited sharing in section 4. You may not remove notices, claim
ownership of others' work, or imply official endorsement without permission.

These restrictions do not prevent independent competing implementations,
truthful benchmarks, security research, use of independently licensed Apache
components, or mandatory interoperability and reverse-engineering rights.
No trademark license is granted beyond truthful identification.

## 6. Patents, third-party rights and continuity

To the extent controlled by the Licensor, this license includes patent rights
necessarily infringed by the permitted use of covered Software, excluding
claims arising only from your additions or combinations. Third-party licenses
prevail for their respective components, and their required notices must remain.

The grant covers the release identified with these terms. Later releases may
use different terms, without changing the terms for copies already obtained.
No future upgrade, maintenance period, security response time, SLA, warranty
or hosting is promised. Existing written support commitments and mandatory
obligations remain applicable. Support and Hub services may have separate
prices and agreements; they do not change this free engine grant.

## 7. Privacy and no remote enforcement

The local engine license requires no telemetry, account or periodic contact.
It authorizes no surveillance, remote disabling, forced upgrades or interference
with user data. Hub service privacy and data processing terms are separate.
Declining a later version's terms does not end rights to earlier copies.

## 8. Termination

You may cease exercising these permissions at any time. The Licensor may
terminate permissions for a material breach only after written notice describing
the breach and failure to cure within 30 days, unless mandatory law or a court
order requires otherwise. There is no termination for convenience, inactivity,
subscription cancellation or refusal of later terms.

After a valid termination, cease the affected use and distribution, except for
a 30-day read/export period to recover your own data where legally permitted.
Independent licenses, prior Apache grants and lawful downstream end-user grants
survive. No remote enforcement against installations or data is authorized.

## 9. Warranties and liability

Except for express written warranties and rights that cannot be excluded, the
Software is provided "AS IS", without warranties of merchantability, fitness
for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted or error-free operation. Evaluate
its suitability and keep independent backups.

To the extent permitted by law, neither party is liable under this license for
indirect or consequential losses; aggregate liability is limited to EUR 500.
These limitations do not apply to fraud, deliberate misconduct, gross negligence,
death or personal injury caused by negligence, or liability that cannot lawfully
be limited. Separate service agreements apply to their own services.

## 10. General and mandatory rights

This license and its release notice describe the grant for the identified
Software. Website changes cannot retroactively change it. An unenforceable
provision is severed only to the extent necessary; the remainder continues where
legally possible. Failure to enforce is not a permanent waiver.

Romanian law governs, subject to mandatory law. For business disputes, the
competent courts of Cluj-Napoca, Romania have jurisdiction subject to mandatory
rules. Consumers retain mandatory protections of their habitual residence and
any right to bring proceedings in their home courts. Mandatory consumer,
competition, privacy, accessibility, statutory update and interoperability
rights prevail. No paid consumer sale or consumer checkout is established here.
