License
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Pyaket is free to use for any project under Open Source Initiative Approved Licenses that shares fully featured releases at no cost (Free Projects). Similar to compilers and other tools, it does not require your project to also be AGPLv3 licensed to use it, except for changes to the code itself.
- No strings attached, we're both free and open source software for the cause!
- Share the word by linking or attributing the project if it helped you out π
Commercial use, including but not limited to selling executables, for-profit deployments, bundling proprietary software, internal use without distribution requires a sponsorship tier. You may freely evaluate the viability beforehand, or use it to get started1 under a limited budget or uncertainty. Subscriptions are recommended for continuous long-term support by sharing a tiny fraction of the revenue, so both sides can grow. Get in touch for custom agreements, questions, discounts, grants, features you'd need to make it work for you, or anything else really.
- To make it extra fair, I'll split the revenue with the most important dependencies and libraries that pyaket wouldn't be possible without β’ see the credits page for more details.
The code is licensed under the AGPLv3 terms - a strong copyleft license to ensure it remains free and open source for all users. You may get in touch for a custom agreement to lift restrictions of the license to extend it privately. Contributions rights are transferred to the project authors2.
This was a rough decision to open-source it at all. I have no intent to limit or restrict the use of my work, but it must be sustainable and target the businesses that shall profit a lot from it.
DependenciesΒΆ
Thanks to cargo-deny and my strict configuration for only permissive licenses, no part of the rust code links to or uses proprietary or viral libraries. The python part uses minimal dependencies and was also checked, although manually - check the credits page for an exhaustive list.
However, for purely functional reasons, third party tools are downloaded and used at runtime, or bundled in the executable, such as astral-sh/uv and astral-sh/python-buid-standalone.
Pyaket is not responsible for developer-specified dependencies and their projects under any circumstances and legal terms, and cannot be held liable for any violations.
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While entry tiers are affordable, you may choose to sponsor later, using only the revenue generated by your project. β©
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With enough stable support, I plan on transferring Pyaket to a permissive license in the future. Such feat would be hard to coordinate with contributors holding copyrights on the codebase - I will not make the project proprietary. β©