Licensing

Sally is published as source-available software under the Business Source License 1.1 with an Additional Use Grant tailored to Sally.

This page is the plain-English explanation. The binding legal terms live in the repository LICENSE file.

Short version

self-use is allowed
SaaS, white-labeling, and third-party hosting are not allowed without separate commercial rights
commercial rights beyond self-use require a separate agreement

What is allowed

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

What is not allowed without a separate commercial license

offering Sally as a SaaS
hosting or managing Sally for third parties
building a white-labeled or OEM version for others
reselling Sally or commercializing it as a third-party product
publishing a differently branded production-ready fork for others to use
removing Sally attribution, branding, or default community support and development messages from the community version

What “self-use” means

Self-use means using Sally for yourself or for the internal operations of your own organization. That includes employees, internal teams, affiliated companies, and contractors acting on your behalf.

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

Commercial path

Kraft Fabrik Media Ltd. may offer separate commercial rights for things like enterprise deployment and installation services, scalable enterprise builds, licenses that remove attribution or community-support prompts, internal enterprise rollout terms, and hosting or white-label distribution rights.

Change date

The current LICENSE file specifies:

Change Date: 2029-03-24
Change License: Apache License, Version 2.0

Positioning

Sally is not open source in the OSI sense. It is better described as source-available, free for self-use, and commercially protected.

For the binding legal terms, refer to LICENSE and the plain-English summary in LICENSING.md.