# PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0

<https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0>

## Acceptance

In order to get any license under these terms, you must agree
to them as both strict obligations and conditions to all your
licenses.

## Copyright License

The licensor grants you a copyright license for the
software to do everything you might do with the software
that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright in
it for any permitted purpose. However, you may only
distribute the software according to [Distribution
License](#distribution-license) and make changes or new
works based on the software according to [Changes and New
Works License](#changes-and-new-works-license).

## Distribution License

The licensor grants you an additional copyright license to
distribute copies of the software. Your license to
distribute covers distributing the software with changes
and new works permitted by [Changes and New Works
License](#changes-and-new-works-license).

## Notices

You must ensure that anyone who gets a copy of any part of
the software from you also gets a copy of these terms or
the URL for them above, as well as copies of any plain-text
lines beginning with `Required Notice:` that the licensor
provided with the software. For example:

> Required Notice: Copyright Tianchi Chen
> (https://github.com/danielchen26/local-mgrep)

## Changes and New Works License

The licensor grants you an additional copyright license to
make changes and new works based on the software for any
permitted purpose.

## Patent License

The licensor grants you a patent license for the software
that covers patent claims the licensor can license, or
becomes able to license, that you would infringe by using
the software.

## Noncommercial Purposes

Any noncommercial purpose is a permitted purpose.

## Personal Uses

Personal use for research, experiment, and testing for
the benefit of public knowledge, personal study, private
entertainment, hobby projects, amateur pursuits, or
religious observance, without any anticipated commercial
application, is use for a permitted purpose.

## Noncommercial Organizations

Use by any charitable organization, educational
institution, public research organization, public safety
or health organization, environmental protection
organization, or government institution is use for a
permitted purpose regardless of the source of funding or
obligations resulting from the funding.

## Fair Use

You may have "fair use" rights for the software under the
law. These terms do not limit them.

## No Other Rights

These terms do not allow you to sublicense or transfer any
of your licenses to anyone else, or prevent the licensor
from granting licenses to anyone else.  These terms do not
imply any other licenses.

## Patent Defense

If you make any written claim that the software infringes
or contributes to infringement of any patent, your patent
license for the software granted under these terms ends
immediately. If your company makes such a claim, your
patent license ends immediately for work on behalf of your
company.

## Violations

The first time you are notified in writing that you have
violated any of these terms, or done anything with the
software not covered by your licenses, your licenses can
nonetheless continue if you come into full compliance with
these terms, and take practical steps to correct past
violations, within 32 days of receiving notice.  Otherwise,
all your licenses end immediately.

## No Liability

***As far as the law allows, the software comes as is,
without any warranty or condition, and the licensor will
not be liable to you for any damages arising out of these
terms or the use or nature of the software, under any kind
of legal claim.***

## Definitions

The **licensor** is the individual or entity offering these
terms, and the **software** is the software the licensor
makes available under these terms.

**You** refers to the individual or entity agreeing to these
terms.

**Your company** is any legal entity, sole proprietorship,
or other kind of organization that you work for, plus all
organizations that have control over, are under the control
of, or are under common control with that organization.
**Control** means ownership of substantially all the assets
of an entity, or the power to direct its management and
policies by vote, contract, or otherwise.  Control can be
direct or indirect.

**Your licenses** are all the licenses granted to you for
the software under these terms.

**Use** means anything you do with the software requiring
one of your licenses.

**Trademark** means a feature of an item that distinguishes
it from other items in commerce.

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## Required Notice

Copyright © 2024–2026 Tianchi Chen
<https://github.com/danielchen26/local-mgrep>

## Commercial use

Commercial use of this software is **not permitted** under this
license. To obtain a commercial license, please open a GitHub
issue at the repository above titled "Commercial license inquiry"
or contact the author at <chentianchi@gmail.com>.

Earlier releases of this software (v0.2.0 through v0.15.1) were
distributed under the MIT License at the time of release; those
binaries may legally exist in the wild under MIT terms. The
project's current source tree, all future binary artifacts, and
the retroactively rewritten git history are governed by the
PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 above.
