ACL 1.0: A source-available commercial license for the AI era
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- #Commercial Licenses
- #AI Training Protection
- #Open Source Licensing
- The license is source-available, allowing reading, running, and internal modification but prohibits redistribution and hosted services without explicit permission.
- It includes a clause that explicitly prohibits using the licensed work as AI training data, addressing risks not covered by older commercial licenses.
- Every version automatically converts to the Apache License, Version 2.0 after four years, ensuring users are not permanently dependent on the licensor.
- The license provides enterprise-friendly features like security auditing rights, AI training protection, and IP indemnification, which are missing in other licenses like BUSL 1.1 or Elastic 2.0.
- Its AI protection clause includes knowledge qualifiers, safe harbors for ordinary AI tool use, and obligations for AI vendors, designed for enforcement in the agent era.