LIZARDBYTE SOURCE-AVAILABLE LICENSE
Version 1.0, May 2026
Copyright (C) 2026 LIZARDBYTE LLC. https://app.lizardbyte.dev/ The Licensor may modify this license document at any time and for any reason. Everyone else is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
PREAMBLE
The LizardByte Source-Available License ("LB-SAL") is designed to make source code available for review and upstream contribution while reserving all rights not expressly granted by this License. This License is not an open source license.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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Definitions
"License" refers to this document.
"Licensor" refers to the copyright owner identified in the copyright notice above and any successor or assignee who owns the rights licensed under this License.
"LizardByte" refers to the Licensor's projects, products, services, repositories, websites, and official contribution channels operated under the LizardByte name or under any successor name designated by the Licensor.
"Software" refers to the copyrightable work that includes a notice stating that it is licensed under this License.
"Official Project" means the Software project controlled by the Licensor to which the Software belongs, including the Licensor's official repository, issue tracker, pull request system, mailing list, or other contribution channel designated by the Licensor.
"Contribution" means any modification, addition, patch, proposal, or other work of authorship intentionally submitted to the Licensor through an Official Project for possible inclusion in the Software.
"Derivative Work" means any work based upon, derived from, adapted from, translated from, modified from, or incorporating the Software or any portion of the Software, except for a Contribution made solely as permitted by this License.
"Distribute" means to sell, rent, lease, lend, publish, sublicense, transfer, provide, transmit, host, display, perform, make available, or otherwise give access to the Software or any Derivative Work to any third party, whether by traditional distribution channels, digital transmission, Software-as-a- Service, managed service, hosted service, cloud service, streaming, network access, remote execution, containerization, virtualization, API access, or any other method now known or later developed.
"Commercial Purpose" means any purpose intended for or directed toward commercial advantage, monetary compensation, revenue generation, paid services, business operations, or other exchange of value, whether direct or indirect.
"Competitive Purpose" means any purpose that develops, tests, supports, markets, offers, operates, or makes available any product, service, feature, repository, or project that substitutes for, competes with, or is intended to reduce demand for any LizardByte project, product, or service.
"Circumvention" means any act of bypassing, removing, deactivating, defeating, impairing, or otherwise circumventing technological measures, licensing logic, payment logic, access controls, feature restrictions, or business logic that controls access to or enforces limitations on use of the Software, including any paid or premium features.
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Grant of Rights
Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, the Licensor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license to:
a. View and inspect the Software for personal, non-commercial purposes.
b. Run unmodified copies of the Software for personal, non-commercial evaluation purposes only.
c. Download, copy, or fork the Software only to the extent necessary to exercise the rights granted in Sections 2(a), 2(b), and 2(d).
d. Modify the Software only to the extent necessary to prepare and submit Contributions to the Official Project, provided that any modification, patch, branch, fork, or copy is created and used solely for that contribution purpose.
e. Submit Contributions to the Licensor through the Official Project.
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Restrictions
Any rights not expressly granted in Section 2 are reserved by the Licensor. Without limiting that reservation of rights, you may not:
a. Modify the Software except solely as necessary to prepare a Contribution that you submit, or in good faith intend to submit, to the Official Project. You may not create or maintain a private, public, internal, or external fork, branch, patch set, or Derivative Work for any other purpose. If a Contribution is rejected, withdrawn, abandoned, or no longer intended for submission to the Official Project, you must promptly delete, destroy, or revert all related modifications and Derivative Works.
b. Distribute the Software or any Derivative Work to any third party by any means, regardless of whether the Distribution is commercial, non-commercial, educational, individual, charitable, internal, public, private, or otherwise.
c. Provide or make available the Software or any Derivative Work as a service, including but not limited to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), managed service, hosted service, cloud service, streaming service, subscription service, remote access, API access, or any other service model now known or later developed.
d. Use the Software or any Derivative Work for any Commercial Purpose without the Licensor's prior written permission.
e. Sell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense, or otherwise exchange the Software or any Derivative Work for value, whether monetary or otherwise.
f. Use the Software or any Derivative Work for any Competitive Purpose.
g. Use the Software or any Derivative Work to train, fine tune, benchmark, or evaluate any machine learning model, artificial intelligence system, code generation system, or automated software development service without the Licensor's prior written permission.
h. Engage in Circumvention.
i. Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, license, attribution, trademark, patent, or other proprietary notice in the Software.
j. Use any trade name, trademark, service mark, logo, domain name, product name, or branding of the Licensor or LizardByte except as required for reasonable and customary attribution.
k. Grant any sublicense or other downstream license to the Software or any Derivative Work.
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Contributions
Contributions are accepted only under the Contributor License Agreement, assignment agreement, or other written contribution terms required by the Licensor for the Official Project. If no separate written contribution terms apply, then by submitting a Contribution you grant the Licensor a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, sublicensable license to reproduce, modify, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, distribute, commercialize, and otherwise use the Contribution for any purpose and under any license or terms.
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Attribution
All copies or substantial portions of the Software that you are permitted to possess under this License must include a copy of this License and the following attribution notice:
"Contains software developed by LizardByte (https://app.lizardbyte.dev)."
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Third-Party Rights
This License does not grant permission to use third-party software, content, trademarks, patents, or other rights that may be included in or used by the Software. You are responsible for complying with all applicable third-party terms.
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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, TITLE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LICENSOR, AUTHORS, CONTRIBUTORS, 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, THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE, OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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Termination
This License and all rights granted under it terminate automatically upon any breach by you of this License. Upon termination, you must immediately cease all use of the Software and destroy all copies of the Software and Derivative Works in your possession, custody, or control. Sections 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 survive termination.
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Legal Enforcement
The Licensor reserves the right to enforce this License through legal action, including but not limited to seeking injunctive relief, damages, costs, and attorney's fees for any violation of these terms, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
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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, and the remaining provisions shall remain in effect.
b. This License represents the complete agreement concerning the subject matter of this License and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous oral or written understandings regarding that subject matter.
c. This License shall be governed by the laws of the United States and, where state law applies, the laws of the state in which the Licensor is domiciled, excluding conflict of law rules.
d. No waiver of any provision of this License shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term. Any waiver must be in writing and signed by the Licensor.
e. The Licensor may revise, replace, or modify this License at any time and for any reason. The Licensor may apply any revised, replaced, or modified version of this License to any future release, copy, or distribution of the Software, or may license the Software under any other terms. No revised, replaced, or modified version changes the terms applicable to a copy of the Software already received under this version unless the Licensor expressly states that the revised terms apply and you accept or are otherwise legally bound by them. This provision does not permit anyone other than the Licensor to modify this License.