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- New license.html: plain-English summary of the Keysat Source-Available License 1.0 (daemon) and MIT (SDKs + template). TL;DR table, "what you can do / can't do" lists, contribution-flow explainer, links to each repo's LICENSE file on GitHub. Anchor sections + on-this-page TOC. - New "Project" sidebar group (Pricing + License) inserted above the existing Operate group on every docs page so the /license page is discoverable from anywhere in the docs.
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<div class="crumb">Project · License</div>
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<h1>License.</h1>
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<p class="lead">Keysat is a hybrid project. The daemon is <strong>source-available</strong> under a custom license; the four SDKs are <strong>open source (MIT)</strong>. The split is intentional: developers integrating Keysat into their own software should never have to think about license compatibility, while operators running the daemon agree to a few common-sense restrictions that keep the project sustainable.</p>
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<h2 id="tldr">TL;DR</h2>
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<thead><tr><th>Component</th><th>License</th><th>Use freely?</th></tr></thead>
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<td>Keysat daemon<br><span class="muted" style="font-size:12.5px">(<code>keysat-xyz/keysat</code>)</span></td>
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<td>Keysat Source-Available License 1.0<br><span class="muted" style="font-size:12.5px">(<code>LicenseRef-Keysat-1.0</code>)</span></td>
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<td>Audit, run, modify ✓<br>Sell licenses to your own products ✓<br>Redistribute binaries ✗<br>Run as a hosted service for others ✗</td>
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<td>SDKs<br><span class="muted" style="font-size:12.5px">(<code>keysat-client-{rust,ts,python,go}</code>)</span></td>
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<td>MIT</td>
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<td>Anything ✓<br>Including commercial use, redistribution, modification, sublicensing, private use.</td>
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<td>Activate-license template<br><span class="muted" style="font-size:12.5px">(<code>keysat-activate-template</code>)</span></td>
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<td>MIT</td>
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<td>Anything ✓<br>Copy the buyer-side actions directly into your own StartOS package.</td>
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<h2 id="why">Why source-available for the daemon?</h2>
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<p>Two reasons, both pragmatic:</p>
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<li><strong>The work has real cost.</strong> Building Keysat takes time. The source-available model lets the project be funded by operators on the Pro / Patron tiers who get value from a maintained, evolving daemon — without forcing every operator onto a paid tier.</li>
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<li><strong>The "AWS-hosts-our-open-source" failure mode.</strong> Fully open-source self-hosted projects routinely get strip-mined by cloud providers who host them as a managed service and capture the revenue. The daemon license forbids this specific pattern. Everything else — running your own instance, modifying it, auditing the code, selling licenses for your own products through it — is permitted.</li>
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<p>The SDKs are MIT because they sit inside <em>your</em> software. License compatibility there is critical and the MIT license is the modern default for libraries you embed.</p>
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<h2 id="permitted">What you can do (daemon)</h2>
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<li><strong>Audit the source.</strong> Read every line; understand the cryptography, the storage, the API surface.</li>
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<li><strong>Run an instance on infrastructure you control.</strong> A Start9 box at home, a VPS, a cloud instance — anywhere you deploy it.</li>
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<li><strong>Modify it for your needs.</strong> Add features, change defaults, integrate it more deeply with your StartOS package. Modifications remain under the same license.</li>
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<li><strong>Operate it as your private licensing service</strong> to issue signed license keys for software products <em>you</em> sell or distribute. This is the intended use case — Keysat exists for this.</li>
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<li><strong>Maintain a public fork.</strong> Forks on GitHub are fine as long as they carry the license unchanged and don't enable any of the prohibited uses below.</li>
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<h2 id="forbidden">What you can't do without prior permission (daemon)</h2>
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<li><strong>Distribute compiled binaries to third parties.</strong> Including free of charge. The intent is that operators run Keysat themselves; they don't hand pre-built copies to others.</li>
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<li><strong>Provide Keysat as a hosted / managed service to third parties.</strong> "Keysat-as-a-Service" run by a cloud provider for a fee, or by anyone other than the operator using it for their own products, is the one pattern explicitly forbidden. Your own customers receiving signed license keys from your instance are <em>not</em> a hosted service — that's the daemon's intended use case.</li>
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<li><strong>Sell, sublicense, lease, or rent the daemon software itself.</strong> Distinct from selling licenses <em>through</em> the daemon, which is allowed.</li>
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<li><strong>Remove copyright notices or this license text.</strong></li>
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<p>If you have a use case that crosses one of these lines — commercial redistribution, white-label deployment, a managed-service offering — email <a href="mailto:licensing@keysat.xyz">licensing@keysat.xyz</a>. The license isn't designed to be a wall; it's designed to make commercial expansion an explicit conversation rather than an implicit one.</p>
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<h2 id="contributions">Contributions</h2>
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<p>By submitting code, documentation, designs, or other contributions to the upstream daemon repo, you grant Keysat a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, modify, relicense, and redistribute your contribution under the same license (or any later version). You retain ownership of your contribution; this is a license-back, not an assignment. The full text is in <a href="https://github.com/keysat-xyz/keysat/blob/main/LICENSE">LICENSE Section 4</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="full-text">Full license text</h2>
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<p>The authoritative text lives at <a href="https://github.com/keysat-xyz/keysat/blob/main/LICENSE">github.com/keysat-xyz/keysat/blob/main/LICENSE</a>. This page is a plain-English summary; the LICENSE file is what governs in any conflict.</p>
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<h2 id="sdks">SDK licenses</h2>
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<p>Each SDK ships under the MIT License — included verbatim in the <code>LICENSE</code> file of each repo:</p>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/keysat-xyz/keysat-client-rust/blob/main/LICENSE">keysat-client-rust</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/keysat-xyz/keysat-client-ts/blob/main/LICENSE">keysat-client-ts</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/keysat-xyz/keysat-client-python/blob/main/LICENSE">keysat-client-python</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/keysat-xyz/keysat-client-go/blob/main/LICENSE">keysat-client-go</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/keysat-xyz/keysat-activate-template/blob/main/LICENSE">keysat-activate-template</a></li>
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<p>You can use these in any software — open-source, closed-source, commercial, free, anything. The only obligation MIT imposes is preserving the copyright notice when you redistribute the SDK source itself.</p>
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<h2 id="contact">Commercial inquiries</h2>
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<p>For commercial redistribution, resale, hosted-service rights, white-label deployment, or any other use not expressly granted by the source-available license: <a href="mailto:licensing@keysat.xyz">licensing@keysat.xyz</a>.</p>
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<a href="#tldr">TL;DR</a>
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<a href="#why">Why source-available</a>
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<a href="#permitted">What you can do</a>
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<a href="#forbidden">What you can't do</a>
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<a href="#contributions">Contributions</a>
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<a href="#full-text">Full license text</a>
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<a href="#sdks">SDK licenses</a>
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