From c04e4d542c914dab479cb78fa2fb77c69886a7fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: psmattas Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:28:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] legal: relicense from MIT to Business Source License 1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Switches from a fully permissive license to BSL 1.1 (the same family Outline's own server uses, for the same underlying reason): personal use, self-hosting, and non-commercial forks stay explicitly allowed, but shipping a competing hosted/distributed product off this code, or distributing a fork under branding that claims official/affiliated status, now requires a separate commercial agreement. Converts automatically to Apache License 2.0 on the change date in LICENSE. Adds an explicit trademark notice for the "Outpost" name/logo, independent of the code license — the specific thing this was meant to close off (a fork getting relabeled as an official/endorsed product). README gets a plain-English summary of what changed; CONTRIBUTING gets a one-line note that PRs are contributed under the same terms. --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 +++ LICENSE | 135 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ README.md | 4 +- 3 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 7bbfc34..a1c2654 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -69,3 +69,9 @@ Issues and PRs use two label prefixes: ## Questions Open an issue — this is a single-repo project, there's no separate issue tracker to route to. + +--- + +## License + +Outpost is licensed under the [Business Source License 1.1](./LICENSE), not a traditional OSI open-source license — see the [README's License section](./README.md#license) for what that means in practice. By submitting a PR, you agree your contribution is licensed under the same terms as the rest of the project. diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 23d6e91..dc332fc 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,22 +1,123 @@ -MIT License +Business Source License 1.1 -Copyright (c) 2026 Puranjay Savar Mattas +Parameters -Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy -of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal -in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights -to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell -copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is -furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: +Licensor: Puranjay Savar Mattas +Licensed Work: Outpost + The Licensed Work is (c) 2026 Puranjay Savar Mattas +Additional Use Grant: You may use, copy, modify, and self-host the Licensed + Work, and build and distribute your own modified or + unmodified copies of it, for personal, educational, or + internal non-commercial purposes. -The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all -copies or substantial portions of the Software. + You may not, without a separate commercial agreement + with the Licensor: + (a) offer the Licensed Work, or any modified or + unmodified version of it, as a hosted or + distributed product or service to third parties, + whether for a fee or free of charge; or + (b) distribute the Licensed Work, or any modified or + unmodified version of it, under a name, logo, or + branding that states or implies it is an official, + endorsed, or affiliated product of Outline, Inc. + or of any other third party, or that removes or + obscures its origin as an independent, + unaffiliated project. -THE SOFTWARE 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. 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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" to + specify a Change License. + +3. To specify a Change Date. + +4. Not to modify this License in any other way. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Trademark Notice + +"Outpost" and any associated logo are trademarks of the Licensor. This +License does not grant permission to use them to identify or market any +product, service, or distribution of the Licensed Work — modified or +unmodified — that is not published by the Licensor, including forks. See +the Additional Use Grant above. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 75cd037..19280b5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ Parts of this codebase are AI-assisted (built with the help of AI coding tools). ## License -This project is a client only — it does not include, vendor, or redistribute any of Outline's (BSL 1.1 licensed) server source. See [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE) for this repository's own license. +Outpost itself is licensed under the [Business Source License 1.1](./LICENSE) — the same license family Outline's own server uses, for the same reason. In short: free to read, self-host, and modify for personal or non-commercial use; not free to repackage as a competing hosted product or to distribute under a name/branding that claims official or affiliated status. It converts automatically to Apache License 2.0 on the change date stated in [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE). "Outpost" and its logo are trademarks of the project — see the license's trademark notice. + +This project is a client only — it does not include, vendor, or redistribute any of Outline's own (also BSL 1.1 licensed) server source. ## Privacy From da890e88fd794ec96ac9ca43d867a5be5168f162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: psmattas Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:31:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] legal: push BSL change date out to 10 years (2036-08-20) --- LICENSE | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index dc332fc..22d4389 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Additional Use Grant: You may use, copy, modify, and self-host the Licensed obscures its origin as an independent, unaffiliated project. -Change Date: 2030-08-20 +Change Date: 2036-08-20 Change License: Apache License, Version 2.0