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Licensing

ThreadLens is source-available under the Business Source License 1.1 in the repository root LICENSE file.

  • You can read the source.
  • You can fork the repository.
  • You can modify the code.
  • You can run ThreadLens for evaluation, development, testing, and other non-production use.
  • You can self-host ThreadLens in production for your own internal business purposes or personal use.

What is not allowed without a separate commercial agreement

Section titled “What is not allowed without a separate commercial agreement”
  • Selling ThreadLens as your own product.
  • Offering ThreadLens as a hosted or managed service to third parties.
  • Shipping a competing commercial product or service built from the ThreadLens codebase.
  • Using ThreadLens trademarks, logos, or branding except where the license explicitly allows it.

Public contributions are accepted through GitHub forks and pull requests only.

  • Open a fork.
  • Make your change in your fork.
  • Submit a pull request for review.

By submitting a pull request, you represent that you have the right to contribute the code and that the contribution may be used, relicensed, and distributed by the licensor as part of ThreadLens and its future Change License.

The repository-level contribution terms live in the repository root CONTRIBUTING.md.

The licensed work is limited to the public ThreadLens repository. If a file or directory states a different license or exception, follow the more specific notice there.

The current Change Date is 2030-05-08. On that date, or on the fourth anniversary of the first public release of a specific version under BUSL 1.1, that version converts to GPL-2.0-or-later.