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Sally Licensing

This file is the plain-English explanation of how Sally is licensed.

It does not replace the binding legal terms in LICENSE.

Summary

Sally is source-available under the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL 1.1) with an Additional Use Grant tailored to Sally.

The intent is simple:

make Sally widely available
allow personal use and internal business use
allow self-hosting for your own organization
allow internal adaptation and customization
prevent third parties from turning Sally into a hosted SaaS, white-labeled product, or competing commercial distribution
keep Kraft Fabrik Media Ltd. as the canonical commercial source of Sally

You may use Sally for:

personal use
internal business use inside your own company
self-hosting for your own organization
internal use by affiliated companies
modifying Sally for your own internal workflows
having employees or contractors install, adapt, and operate Sally on your behalf

You may not:

offer Sally as a SaaS
host or manage Sally for third parties
build a white-labeled or OEM version for others
resell Sally or commercialize it as a third-party product
publish a differently branded production-ready fork for others to use
remove Sally attribution, branding, or default community support/development messages from the community version

“Self-use” means using Sally for yourself or for the internal operations of your own organization.

That includes:

It does not include turning Sally into a product or hosted service for your own customers.

Kraft Fabrik Media Ltd. may offer separate commercial rights for things like:

The current LICENSE file specifies:

That means the BSL terms apply until the Change Date (or earlier if the BSL terms say so), after which the code transitions to Apache-2.0.

Sally is not open source in the OSI sense.

It is better described as:

For the binding legal terms, always refer to: