Business Source License 1.1

Licensor: sensesVoid
Licensed Work: SQAC — Hyperdimensional Memory Cartridges for LLMs
Change Date: 2030-09-07
Change License: Apache License, Version 2.0

Copyright (c) 2026 sensesVoid

Notice

The Licensor grants you (the "Licensee") a non-exclusive, royalty-free,
world-wide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly
display, publicly perform, and distribute the Licensed Work and such
derivative works in Source and Object form.

Change License Grant

On the Change Date, the Licensed Work is licensed under the Change
License (Apache License, Version 2.0), and the Licensor grants you
(and any successor to the Licensed Work) a perpetual, worldwide,
non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license
to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly
perform, sublicense, and distribute the Licensed Work and such
derivative works in Source and Object form.

Use Limitation

The Licensed Work is provided on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES
OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND. The Licensee may use, modify, and distribute
the Licensed Work for any purpose, including commercial purposes, subject
to the following restrictions:

  1. The Licensee may not offer the Licensed Work or any modified version
     of the Licensed Work as a managed service or hosted service where
     the primary value of the service is access to the Licensed Work's
     functionality (a "Competing Offering").

  2. A "Competing Offering" means any product or service that provides
     functionality substantially similar to the Licensed Work, including
     but not limited to: offering the Licensed Work as a hosted API,
     SaaS platform, managed database, or cloud service.

  3. The Licensee may use the Licensed Work as an embedded component
     within their own products and services, provided the Licensed Work
     is not the primary value offering.

Trademarks

This license does not grant permission to use the trade names,
trademarks, service marks, or product names of the Licensor.

Disclaimer

THE LICENSED WORK 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 AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LICENSOR 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 LICENSED WORK OR THE USE
OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE LICENSED WORK.

Exception

For the avoidance of doubt, the following uses are NOT considered a
Competing Offering and are freely permitted:

  - Using SQAC as an internal tool within your organization
  - Embedding SQAC in a product where SQAC is not the primary offering
  - Contributing improvements back to the SQAC project
  - Academic research and education
  - Personal and non-commercial use
