Licensing regimes

NuNet has defined and using three licensing regimes in order to establish proper interaction across the boundaries between three platform components with relation to technical, legal and business terms. The idea behind this structure was being considered from the start, formalized and clarified at the end of 2022. Based on this, in the beginning of 2023 we will choose actual licenses to be used for each regime, assign that to the current code and develop and approve the procedure of code licensing for the subsequent development of the platform.

Licensing regime	Boundary	License	Description
1st	core	OS Permissive or Copyleft (protective) license	Defines core Platform Open Source Components that are subject to the open source copyright license agreement and describe core functionality of the Platform. Depending on the component, that could be a Permissive or Copyleft license. Main platform components will be licensed with Permissive licensing.
2nd	non-core	OS Permissive license	Defines non-core Platform Open Source Components which are still related to the Platform features; however, those Open Source Components can be developed either by NuNet or other companies which comply with the Platform’s open API.
3rd	use-case applications	Any software license	No restrictions to use Open Source Components; license can be freely chosen by the users