the-borg-project
Copyright 2026 Ryan Gillespie / Optitransfer

This software is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL 1.1).
See the LICENSE file for the complete license text.

The BSL 1.1 permits virtually all uses -- including commercial production,
SaaS, internal tooling, research, and open-source projects -- with the sole
exception of offering the Licensed Work itself as a competing
spiking-neural-network assimilation / collective-gossip service.

On 2028-03-29 (or the fourth anniversary of first public distribution),
this version automatically converts to the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Contact: rgillespie83@icloud.com | data@optitransfer.ch

Upstream Dependency:

  crdt-merge -- Business Source License 1.1 (BSL 1.1)
  Patent: UK Application Nos. 2607132.4, GB2608127.3
  https://github.com/mgillr/crdt-merge

Third-Party Notices:

  - numpy: BSD 3-Clause License
  - torch (PyTorch): BSD-style License
  - transformers (Hugging Face): Apache License 2.0
  - cryptography: Apache License 2.0 / BSD 3-Clause License
  - spikingjelly: Apache License 2.0 (optional [convert] extra)
  - faiss-cpu: MIT License (optional [rag] extra)
  - sentence-transformers: Apache License 2.0 (optional [rag] extra)
  - pypdf: BSD 3-Clause License (optional [rag] extra)
  - python-docx: MIT License (optional [rag] extra)
  - soundfile: BSD 3-Clause License (optional [speech] extra)
  - gradio: Apache License 2.0 (optional [app] extra)
  - fastapi: MIT License (optional [worker] extra)
  - pydantic: MIT License (optional [worker] extra)
  - uvicorn: BSD 3-Clause License (optional [worker] extra)
