Business Source License 1.1

License text copyright (c) 2017 MariaDB Corporation Ab, All Rights Reserved.
"Business Source License" is a trademark of MariaDB Corporation Ab.

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Licensor:             SYNEKCOT Tech (Emmanuel King Christopher)
Licensed Work:        NEKOVA Programming Language
                       The Licensed Work is (c) 2026 Emmanuel King Christopher
Additional Use Grant:  You may use, copy, modify, and distribute the Licensed
                       Work for any purpose, including commercial purposes,
                       EXCEPT that you may not offer the Licensed Work, or
                       any product or service whose value derives primarily
                       from the Licensed Work, to third parties as a hosted
                       or managed service where the Licensed Work's runtime,
                       interpreter, sandbox, or execution engine is the
                       product being sold or offered (a "Competing Hosted
                       Service").

                       For the avoidance of doubt, building, selling, or
                       hosting applications, products, or services that are
                       merely WRITTEN IN NEKOVA — including SaaS products,
                       internal tools, websites, games, or any other software
                       that uses NEKOVA as its implementation language — is
                       explicitly permitted and is not a Competing Hosted
                       Service, regardless of the revenue such use generates.

                       A Competing Hosted Service includes, without
                       limitation: offering NEKOVA code execution,
                       interpretation, or sandboxing as an API or hosted
                       product to third parties; offering a hosted NEKOVA
                       notebook, IDE, or REPL as a commercial product to
                       third parties; or any service whose primary
                       commercial value is "run NEKOVA code for you."

                       Organizations and individuals with total gross
                       revenue under one million United States dollars
                       (US $1,000,000) in the prior twelve (12) months are
                       additionally granted full rights to operate a
                       Competing Hosted Service without obtaining a separate
                       commercial license, provided all other terms of this
                       license are met.

                       Organizations and individuals exceeding this revenue
                       threshold who wish to operate a Competing Hosted
                       Service must obtain a commercial license from the
                       Licensor. Contact: emmanuelkingchristopher@gmail.com

Change Date:           Four (4) years from the date of each Licensed Work
                       version's release.

Change License:        Apache License, Version 2.0

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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, its affiliated entities, or authorized
resellers, or you must refrain from using the Licensed Work.

All copies of the original and modified Licensed Work, and derivative works
of the Licensed Work, are subject to this License. This License applies
separately for each version of the Licensed Work and the Change Date may
vary for each version of the Licensed Work released by Licensor.

You must conspicuously display this License on each original or modified
copy of the Licensed Work. If you receive the Licensed Work in original or
modified form from a third party, the terms and conditions set forth in this
License apply to your use of that work.

Any use of the Licensed Work in violation of this License will automatically
terminate your rights under this License for the current and all other
versions of the Licensed Work.

This License does not grant you any right in any trademark or logo of
Licensor or its affiliates (provided that you may use a trademark or logo of
Licensor as expressly required by this License).

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE LICENSED WORK IS PROVIDED ON
AN "AS IS" BASIS. LICENSOR HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND
TITLE.

MariaDB hereby grants you permission to use this License's text to license
your works, and to refer to it using the trademark "Business Source License",
as long as you comply with the Covenants of Licensor below.

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Covenants of Licensor

In consideration of the right to use this License's text and the "Business
Source License" name and trademark, Licensor covenants to MariaDB, and to
all other recipients of the licensed work to be provided by Licensor:

1. To specify as the Change License the GPL Version 2.0 or any later
   version, or a license that is compatible with GPL Version 2.0 or a later
   version, where "compatible" means that software provided under the
   Change License can be included in a program with software provided
   under GPL Version 2.0 or a later version. Licensor may specify
   additional Change Licenses without limitation.

2. To either: (a) specify an additional grant of rights to use that does
   not impose any additional restriction on the right granted in this
   License, as the Additional Use Grant; or (b) insert the text
   "None"

3. To specify a Change Date.

4. Not to modify this License in any other way.

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Notice

The Business Source License (this document, or the "License") is not an
Open Source license. However, the Licensed Work will eventually be made
available under an Open Source License, as stated in this License.
