Business Source License 1.1

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Licensor: Ryan Gillespie / Optitransfer
Contact: rgillespie83@icloud.com | data@optitransfer.ch

Licensed Work: the-borg-project
The Licensed Work is (c) 2026 Ryan Gillespie / Optitransfer.

The Licensed Work builds on and depends upon the patented crdt-merge
library (UK Application Nos. 2607132.4, GB2608127.3). Patent rights are
held separately by Ryan Gillespie / Optitransfer and are not granted by
this License beyond the scope explicitly permitted by the upstream
crdt-merge License.

Additional Use Grant:

You may use, modify, copy, distribute, embed, and deploy the Licensed Work
in any environment and for any purpose, including commercial production
use, with the sole exception described below.

Explicitly permitted uses include (but are not limited to):

- Embedding the Licensed Work as a library or component inside your own
  applications, SaaS products, edge deployments, research platforms,
  mobile apps, or internal tooling -- even if the overall product is
  commercial.
- Running the Licensed Work as part of a customer-owned inference
  pipeline, model registry, or agent platform.
- Academic research, benchmarking, publications, and open-source projects
  (as long as the project itself is not a Competing Offering).
- Fine-tuning, merging, quantising, or extending the Licensed Work for
  private or commercial downstream use.
- Running the worker (`borg.worker`) and participating in the collective
  gossip network as a peer (`borg.collective`).

The only restriction is that you may not offer the Licensed Work (or a
substantially similar derivative) as a standalone product or service
whose primary purpose is providing spiking-neural-network model merging,
universal model assimilation, or collective-gossip-based weight
aggregation to third parties (i.e., you may not resell the-borg-project
itself -- or a direct wrapper -- as a merge engine or as-a-service).

Change Date: 2028-03-29

Change License: Apache License, Version 2.0

On the Change Date (or the fourth anniversary of the first public
distribution of this version, whichever comes first), the Licensed Work
automatically converts to the Apache 2.0 License with no additional
restrictions.

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The Licensor hereby grants you the right to copy, modify, create
derivative works, redistribute, and make non-production use of the
Licensed Work. The Licensor may make an Additional Use Grant, above,
permitting limited production use.

Effective on the Change Date, or the fourth anniversary of the first
publicly available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed
Work under this License, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby
grants you rights under the terms of the Change License, and the rights
granted in the paragraph above terminate.

If your use of the Licensed Work does not comply with the requirements
currently in effect as described in this License, you must purchase a
commercial license from the Licensor or refrain from using the Licensed
Work.

This License applies separately for each version of the Licensed Work
and the Change Date may vary for each version.

You must conspicuously display this License on each original or modified
copy of the Licensed Work.

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