LICENSING.md

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# Licensing and commercial use

Auto Tournament is licensed under the [PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0](LICENSE). The source is public and free to use, change and share for non-commercial purposes. It is not "open source" in the OSI sense.

The rule is simple: **if you earn money from it, you need a license.** If nobody earns money from it, it's free.

## Free, no permission needed

- Personal use, hobby projects, learning and research, under the license's personal-use terms.
- Tournaments and LAN events where nobody earns money from it: all entry fees and sponsor money go back into the event, and no organizer, volunteer or helper is paid or takes profit.
- Use by the organizations the license lists: charities, schools and universities, public research, public safety or health and environmental protection organizations, and government bodies. They are free even when they charge entry.
- Changing the code, forking it and sharing your changes, as long as you keep the LICENSE and the `Required Notice` line, and your use stays non-commercial.

## Commercial use needs a license

Examples of commercial use:

- Hosting or running Auto Tournament for someone else for money, including managed hosting and "tournaments as a service".
- Selling Auto Tournament, a modified version of it, or a product or service built on it.
- Running tournaments or events where the organizer makes a profit.
- Using it inside a business, for example an esports organization, venue or company running events.
- Being paid to set up, install or operate Auto Tournament, CS2 Server Manager or Ready Up for someone else, even for a flat fee, and even when that event is itself free.

Forks and modified versions stay under the same license; they can't be relicensed (for example as MIT) or used commercially without a license.

Not sure whether your use counts as commercial? Ask first.

## Getting a commercial license

Prices, the price calculator and card checkout are on [autotournament.gg/pricing](https://autotournament.gg/pricing). To ask for a license or an invoice, email [sivert@autotournament.gg](mailto:sivert@autotournament.gg). Licenses are sold by Gullberg Hansen Consulting (ENK), org. nr. 938 566 674, to businesses and organizations, on the [Commercial License Terms](https://autotournament.gg/terms) and [Terms of Sale](https://autotournament.gg/terms-of-sale). The full rules, with examples, are in [Licensing and commercial use](https://docs.autotournament.gg/reference/licensing).

Contributions are accepted under the [Contributor License Agreement](CLA.md).

Auto Tournament ships no music: the music under highlight reels is what each install's admin adds, and they are responsible for its license. The crowd sound comes from Pixabay. See [Third-party media](THIRD-PARTY-MEDIA.md).

## Older versions

Versions up to and including 2.4.15 (released as "MatchZy Auto Tournament") were published under the MIT License and remain under it. Everything since the rename to Auto Tournament is under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0.

_This page explains how the author reads the license. If it and the LICENSE ever disagree, the LICENSE wins._