Starterdough Commercial Licence
Version 1.1 · effective 8 October 2026 · source-available, per-buyer, perpetual
This licence is an agreement between Subash Chandra, an individual resident in the State of Texas, USA (“we”, “us”), and the person or organisation that bought a licence to this kit (“you”). It covers the contents of this repository (source code, configuration, database migrations, documentation, icons and example content), together the Software.
If you have not paid for a licence, you have no right to use the Software.
1. Definitions
- Licensee: the single individual, or the single legal entity, named on the purchase. A licence is not shared between separate legal entities, including parent, sister and subsidiary companies.
- Developer: an employee or contractor of the Licensee who works on the Licensee’s End Products.
- End Product: an application, site or service the Licensee builds with the Software, in which the Software is one component of something substantially larger and different.
- Deploy: run an End Product for its intended audience, including as a public web service, an internal service, a desktop or mobile application, or a container image.
- Solo licence and Team licence: the two kinds of licence sold through starterdough.dev; the purchase names which one you bought. Both grant the same rights under this licence. They differ only in the number of Invited Accounts and, for a Team licence, the onboarding call in section 6.
- Update Period: the time after a purchase during which later versions of the Software are included, as the terms of that purchase state it. For purchases made through starterdough.dev (including its Polar checkout) on or after 8 October 2026, it is 12 months from the date of purchase; for earlier purchases, see section 6.
- Invited Accounts: the GitHub accounts we invite to the private repository that holds the Software, each used by you or one of your Developers. A Solo licence includes one; a Team licence includes up to five.
2. What you may do
For as long as you comply with this licence, we grant you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to:
- Use and modify the Software, on any number of machines belonging to you or your Developers.
- Build unlimited End Products with it, commercial or not, for yourself or for your clients.
- Give any number of your Developers access to the Software so they can work on those End Products. Access ends when the person stops working for you.
- Deploy your End Products publicly and charge your own customers for them.
- Distribute your End Products in compiled, bundled or hosted form (a JavaScript bundle, a container image, a desktop or mobile installer, a running service) where the Software is not separable from the End Product and is not the point of the distribution.
- Keep using what you have forever: every version you received, even after your Update Period ends or we stop selling the Software.
3. What you may not do
You may not:
- Redistribute the Software itself, in source form or as a template, whether or not you charge for it. This includes publishing it, in whole or in substantial part, to a public repository, package registry, file host, forum, course, video, dataset or model training corpus.
- Resell, relicense, sublicense, rent, lease or give away the Software or a modified version of it as a development kit, starter, boilerplate, theme, template, scaffold or code generator, which is to say: anything whose value to the recipient is the Software rather than an End Product.
- Pass the Software to anyone who is not a Developer of yours. If you build an End Product for a client and that client needs the source code, or needs to modify it after you hand over, the client buys their own licence. You may hand over an End Product; you may not hand over the kit.
- Present an End Product that is the Software with cosmetic changes (a new name, colours, copy) as your own product, or ship it in competition with the Software.
- Remove or obscure this licence file, the third-party notices, or any copyright notice in the parts of the Software you redistribute under section 2.5.
- Use the Software to train a machine-learning model whose purpose is to reproduce it or to generate a substitute for it.
If you are unsure whether something you want to do is allowed, ask us in writing first. Written permission from us overrides this section.
4. Ownership
We own the Software and every copy of it. This licence grants permissions; it does not transfer ownership, and nothing here is a sale of the Software.
You own the code you write yourself, the content you add, and the End Products you build. Nothing in this licence gives us any claim on them.
5. Third-party components
The Software depends on open-source packages that are not ours and are not covered by this licence.
Each is governed by its own licence, and THIRD-PARTY.md records how the dependency tree was
scanned, the two components that carry an obligation beyond attribution, and how to reproduce the
scan yourself. Complying with those licences in your End Products is your responsibility.
6. Updates and support
Your licence entitles you to the Software as it stood when you bought it, and to every later version we publish during your Update Period. We deliver later versions through the private repository, to your Invited Accounts. When your Update Period ends we may remove those accounts’ access to the repository; every version you received stays yours to use under this licence (section 2.6).
The number of Invited Accounts limits who can pull from our repository, not who may work with the Software: section 2.3 still lets any number of your Developers use your own copy.
A Team licence also includes one onboarding call of 45 minutes, booked during the Update Period.
Purchases made before 8 October 2026 keep the update terms they were sold with, even if you later accept a version of the Software that ships this licence.
We are not obliged to publish updates, keep any part of the Software working, maintain compatibility with third-party services, or provide support beyond what this section and the terms of your purchase state, unless we have agreed to more separately in writing.
7. Term and termination
This licence starts when you buy it and runs until you break it. If you break section 3 and do not put it right within 30 days of us telling you about it in writing, this licence ends. When it ends you must stop using the Software, delete your copies of it, and stop distributing End Products whose distribution depended on section 2.5. Sections 4, 8, 9 and 10 survive.
We may also terminate immediately, without a cure period, if you obtained the Software without paying for it or through a chargeback or reversed payment.
8. No warranty
The Software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Software is free of defects, that it is secure, that it will run without interruption, or that it is fit for any regulated, safety-critical or high-risk use.
You are responsible for reviewing, testing and securing what you deploy. Every deployment decision (secrets, hosting, backups, access control, payment configuration, legal copy, data protection) is yours.
9. Limit of liability
To the maximum extent the law allows:
- We are not liable for lost profits, lost revenue, lost or corrupted data, business interruption, loss of goodwill, or any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, however caused and on any theory of liability, even if we were told such damages were possible.
- Our total liability under or in connection with this licence, for all claims combined, is capped at the amount you actually paid us for the Software.
Nothing in this licence excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
10. Your indemnity
You will defend and indemnify us against third-party claims arising from your End Products, your modifications to the Software, your use of the Software in breach of this licence, or your breach of a third-party licence covered by section 5.
11. General
- Governing law and venue. This licence is governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts located in Texas have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from it.
- Assignment. You may not assign or transfer this licence, except to a successor that acquires substantially all of your business, on written notice to us. We may assign it freely.
- Entire agreement. This file, together with the terms of your purchase, is the whole agreement about the Software and replaces any earlier statement, page or conversation about it.
- Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it is narrowed to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable, and the rest stays in force.
- No waiver. Not enforcing a provision once does not waive it.
- Amendments. Changes to this licence bind you only if you agree to them in writing, or if you accept a later version of the Software that ships a later version of this file.
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