Libertaria Commonwealth License — Version 1.1

Identifier: LicenseRef-Libertaria-Commonwealth-1.1

1. Definitions and scope

You means the individual or legal entity exercising rights under this License, including entities under its majority voting control or common majority voting control. Contributor means a rightsholder intentionally submitting identified material under this License. Each Contributor grants only rights it can lawfully grant.

Covered Work means the identified material offered under this License, its modifications and the combined programs described below. Separately identified third-party components retain their own underlying licenses.

Core Material means the original Commonwealth material and all additions, changes, translations and new files containing copyrightable portions of that material. Renaming, splitting or moving covered implementation does not convert it into independent material. Unprotectable ideas, facts and necessary interface declarations alone do not constitute core implementation.

Combined Program means Core Material combined with other code into one program by static or dynamic linking, or by incorporating covered implementation into that code. As a condition of permission to make and share such a combination, Sections 3 and 4 apply to the combined program. A collection of separate programs on a medium, or independent programs communicating through ordinary published protocols without incorporating covered implementation, is not a Combined Program merely for that reason. A process boundary alone does not decide whether code is independent.

Corresponding Source means the preferred form for modifying the covered version, its interfaces, build and installation scripts, and configuration templates needed to build, run and modify it. It includes required custom components and excludes generally available unmodified tools and system libraries. A system library is a normally distributed part of the host operating system or compiler toolchain, not a project-specific module relabeled as a system library.

Distribute means provide a copy outside Your legal entity. Transfers to contractors acting solely on Your behalf under Your direction and confidentiality duties are private transfers, not independent distribution authorizations. Network Deployment means providing functionality of a covered version to users through a computer network, directly or through an intermediary, including employees using a hosted application. It does not mean merely storing or transferring a source archive, nor solely build/test communication between Your processes with no user service.

Executable Form is any form other than Corresponding Source. Independent Module has the meaning and boundaries in Venture 1.1.

2. Rights granted

2.1 Copyright and private use

Each Contributor grants You worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free rights for the duration of its rights to use, reproduce, modify, translate, prepare adaptations of, publicly display, publicly perform and Distribute its contributions, subject to this License. You may charge for distribution, hosting, support or warranties. There is no restriction by nationality, field of activity or commercial purpose.

You may privately make and run modifications without publishing source. Distribution and Network Deployment trigger the duties below. Every recipient receives rights in covered source directly from its Contributors. No trademark or endorsement permission is granted beyond required notices.

2.2 Patents

Each Contributor grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive patent license to make, have made, use, offer for sale, sell, import and transfer its contribution alone or as incorporated into the Covered Work to which it contributed. It covers only claims the Contributor may license that are necessarily infringed by that contribution alone or that contributed combination. Claims infringed only by later modifications or other combinations and third-party patents are excluded.

If You file a claim, including a cross-claim or counterclaim, alleging that the Covered Work infringes a patent, Your patent permissions under this License for that Covered Work end on filing. Unrelated patent disputes do not trigger this term. Copyright permissions do not end under this patent clause. Withdrawal alone does not restore patent permissions; the affected grantor may restore them in writing. Mandatory legal defenses remain intact.

3. Reciprocity upon distribution

3.1 Source and combined programs

Distribute Core Material and Your contributions to a Combined Program under this exact License, except for Independent Modules validly using Section 5. Do not impose a nondisclosure obligation or an additional restriction on recipients’ exercise of their rights in this covered source.

Preserve copyright, license, applicable patent and attribution notices and identify modified files with the modifying party and a date or version. Deliver a copy of this License. No advertising credit is required. A legal-notices page may collect attributions rather than repeating all credits on every screen.

Third-party components may retain different terms only when those terms permit the combination, distribution and source delivery required here. Include their licenses and notices and provide their required source. This is not permission to incorporate incompatible code or to claim ownership of another party’s contribution. Code does not qualify for an exception merely because You call it a dependency.

3.2 Executables and installation

For any Executable Distribution, provide the exact version’s Corresponding Source to each recipient at the same time, either in the package or by an identified download without an additional license charge. Include build/install instructions. If You control an installation restriction, provide the means necessary for recipients to install and run their lawful modified covered version on a device You distribute for their use. You need not disclose production signing secrets if a safe user-key enrollment, relinking or other effective replacement mechanism supplies that ability. No support or warranty for user modifications is required.

For a download offer, keep source available while distributing that version and for three years after Your last Distribution of it. A complete source copy accompanying the executable satisfies this obligation without a continuing host. You remain responsible if You rely on another source host. A physical source copy may be charged at reasonable delivery cost only. Executable product terms must preserve recipients’ rights in covered source.

4. Network deployment and sensitive material

For every Network Deployment, offer each interacting user the matching Corresponding Source without a fee or a separate confidentiality agreement. A prominent source link in the interface or a clearly documented source endpoint for a headless API must identify the deployed version. A third-party login or discretionary approval must not be required just to exercise this source right. Private source access for actual internal users is sufficient for a service accessible only to those users.

Keep the source offer effective while that version is deployed and for three years after its last deployment, or deliver a complete copy to every interacting user while they use it. The duty applies to an unmodified Network Deployment as well as a modified one. Use of a proxy or outsourced operator does not remove Your duty where You operate the service.

User records, personal data, credentials, private keys, unrelated logs and independently licensed reference datasets are not Corresponding Source merely because the program processes them. Supply usable templates and parameter descriptions in place of secrets. Do not hide covered implementation in a file labeled data, configuration or a model. Where such a file is itself covered implementation, its source remains required. Third-party dataset conditions are not replaced by this License.

5. Venture permission for independent closed modules

Every Contributor offering Core Material under this exact version expressly permits a Combined Program to contain Independent Modules under separate, including proprietary, terms when the Distributor complies with the Libertaria Venture License, Version 1.1. Venture 1.1 is incorporated only for that exception. Include both complete texts when exercising it.

This permission does not make the Core Material proprietary. Core Material, all modifications to it, and covered integration code remain subject to Sections 3 and 4. Venture cannot substitute a hash or attestation for that source. Proprietary module source is exempt only within Venture’s defined independence and verification conditions. A Distributor cannot designate copied or modified core implementation an Independent Module.

The exception is available under the objective conditions of Venture 1.1; it does not require a new royalty agreement with each core Contributor. It cannot override a third-party license that does not grant equivalent permission. An earlier Commonwealth 1.0 grant contains no such permission; You must obtain authority to use all relevant core contributions under 1.1 or another express compatible grant.

Failure to qualify for Venture does not require involuntary publication of independently owned proprietary source. Instead You must stop the noncompliant combined Distribution/Deployment or obtain other permissions; You may separately use the Core Material under this License in compliance with its terms. Existing compliant end-user grants survive as stated below. No Registry Operator may remove the core source duties or amend this exception by publishing a new policy.

6. Breach, reinstatement and recipients

A material breach terminates Your permissions for the affected Covered Work. If You cease the breach, grants from a Contributor are provisionally reinstated until that Contributor expressly and finally terminates them in writing. Reinstatement becomes permanent if the Contributor does not notify You within 60 days after cessation. On a first written breach notice from that Contributor, cure within 30 days after receipt also permanently reinstates its grants. Patent termination follows Section 2.2 instead.

A notice must identify the affected material, the claimant’s rights and the conduct, and reach a designated licensing contact or otherwise actually reach You. Electronic notices must be capable of being retained. Neither an allegation nor a registry finding is conclusive evidence in court. Reinstatement does not erase remedies for earlier acts. Court powers, burdens of proof and mandatory procedural rules are unchanged.

Compliant recipients retain direct grants already received despite an upstream breach, registry suspension or later change of ownership. Withdrawal of a later release does not revoke rights in copies already lawfully obtained. No arbitrary project-wide revocation power is reserved.

7. Warranty and liability

To the extent permitted by law, the Covered Work is provided as is without express or implied warranty of merchantability, fitness, accuracy, security, title or non-infringement. To that extent, Contributors are not liable for direct or indirect damages, lost profit, lost data or interruption arising from the Work under contract, tort or another theory, even if advised of the possibility. No exclusion applies to non-excludable liability, including intentional misconduct or deliberate recklessness where applicable. Mandatory consumer rights remain intact.

A person offering support, warranty or indemnity does so for itself only and must not purport to bind another Contributor without agreement. Neither source availability nor provenance constitutes clinical, safety, security or regulatory certification.

8. Law, interpretation and versions

Dutch law governs, subject to mandatory applicable law and non-waivable consumer protections. The competent courts of Amsterdam, the Netherlands have exclusive jurisdiction to the extent a valid forum agreement can be made for the dispute. Mandatory jurisdiction rules take precedence; interim relief in another competent court remains possible where procedural law permits it. No statutory right to study, test, back up or decompile software is excluded where that right cannot lawfully be waived.

An invalid provision is severable only insofar as the remaining agreement can lawfully stand; no fictional replacement expands a grant or waives mandatory rights. Non-enforcement on one occasion is not a general waiver. This English text controls unless the relevant grantor expressly adopts another operative language. Summaries do not modify it.

Later versions require an express rightsholder grant; there is no automatic upgrade election. Existing rights under earlier versions are not withdrawn. Contributors retain ownership. Placement in an organization or registry is not an assignment of intellectual property.