Licences

Both in full, so you can read what you are agreeing to before you pay rather than after. In one sentence: build and sell whatever you like with it, closed-source, no attribution; do not pass the kit itself on to anyone.

Questions about a clause, or an unusual arrangement? hello@starterdough.dev.

Starterdough Commercial Licence

Version 1.0 · 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.

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, at the version you received, even if we stop selling the Software or your access to updates lapses.

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. Whether you also receive later versions, and for how long, is set by the terms of your purchase. We are not obliged to publish updates, keep any part of the Software working, maintain compatibility with third-party services, or provide support, unless we have agreed to that 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.

Starterdough Free Edition Licence

Version 1.0 · source-available, free of charge, perpetual

This licence is an agreement between Subash Chandra, an individual resident in the State of Texas, USA (“we”, “us”), and anyone who obtains a copy of the free edition of this kit (“you”). It covers the contents of this repository — source code, configuration, database migrations, documentation, icons and example content — together, the Software.

You do not have to pay us, register, or ask permission. Obtaining a copy is your acceptance of this licence; if you do not accept it, do not use the Software.

This is the free edition. The paid edition — organisations, teams, workspaces, billing, documents and background jobs — is a different repository under a different licence, and nothing here grants you any right to it.

1. Definitions

End Product — an application, site or service you build 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.

2. What you may do

For as long as you comply with this licence, we grant you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free licence to:

Use and modify the Software, on any number of machines, by any number of people.
Build unlimited End Products with it, commercial or not, for yourself or for your clients.
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.
Publish your copy of the Software — a fork, a mirror, a modified version — as long as that copy carries this licence file and our copyright notice unchanged, and as long as publishing it is not one of the things section 3 forbids.
Keep using what you have forever, at the version you received, even if we stop publishing the Software.

Your End Products need no attribution. No notice, no badge, no link back, nothing on your about page. Section 2.5 is about copies of the kit; it says nothing about what you build with it.

3. What you may not do

You may not:

Sell the Software, or charge anyone for access to it — not as a download, a template, a marketplace listing, a paid course, or anything behind a paywall or a membership. Charging for what you build with it is section 2.3. Charging for the kit itself is ours.
Offer the Software, or a modified version of it, as a development kit — a starter, boilerplate, theme, template, scaffold or code generator — whether or not you charge for it. The test is who the recipient is: building something for your own users is what this licence is for; handing other developers a thing whose value to them is the Software is not.
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 either edition of the Software.
Remove or obscure this licence file, the third-party notices, or any copyright notice from a copy of the Software you publish 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 giving it away is not 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 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

You have the Software as you received it, and nothing more is promised. We are not obliged to publish updates, keep any part of the Software working, maintain compatibility with third-party services, or answer questions about it. This licence entitles you to no support; anything we agree separately in writing — including the terms of a paid edition — stands on its own.

7. Term and termination

This licence starts when you obtain a copy 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, take down anything you published under section 2.5, and stop distributing End Products whose distribution depended on section 2.4. Sections 4, 8, 9 and 10 survive.

8. No warranty

You are responsible for reviewing, testing and securing what you deploy. Every deployment decision — secrets, hosting, backups, access control, 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 USD 100. The Software was given to you for nothing; this cap is not a refund of anything.

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

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. We may assign it freely.
Entire agreement. This file is the whole agreement about the free edition and replaces any earlier statement, page or conversation about it. A licence to the paid edition, if you buy one, is a separate agreement that this file neither limits nor extends.
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. The version of this file you received governs the copy you received. Changes bind you only if you agree to them in writing, or if you take a later version of the Software that ships a later version of this file.

The free edition licence also ships in its repository, at LICENSE.md. If the two ever differ, the copy in the repository you received is the one that governs.