# NetWasm Community License 1.0
Version 1.0 — 2 September 2026
Licensor: Zion Sati
Commercial licensing: zionsatidev@gmail.com
Project repository: https://github.com/zion-sati/netwasm
> This is a source-available license, not an Open Source Initiative approved
> open-source license.
## 1. Acceptance and scope
This license (the **License**) governs each version of the NetWasm compiler,
linker, optimizer, build tools, debugger, IDE integration, and related
developer tooling that identifies this License as applying to it (collectively,
the **Software**).
By downloading, installing, executing, copying, modifying, distributing, or
otherwise exercising rights in the Software, you accept this License. If you
act for an organization, you represent that you have authority to accept this
License for that organization. If you do not accept this License, you receive
no rights under it.
This License does not govern:
1. third-party material included with the Software under another license;
2. NetWasm CoreLib, target runtime libraries, WASI or WIT libraries, generated
support libraries, templates, or other files that expressly carry the MIT
License or another separate license; or
3. Generated Output, except as stated in Section 8.
A separate written commercial agreement with the Licensor may grant rights
beyond this License.
## 2. Definitions
**Affiliate** means an entity that directly or indirectly controls, is
controlled by, or is under common control with another entity. **Control**
means ownership of more than fifty percent of voting interests or the legal
power to direct an entity’s management.
**Annual Revenue** means an Organization’s consolidated gross revenue,
together with its Affiliates, for its most recently completed fiscal year,
determined under accounting principles consistently applied by that
Organization. Taxes collected for a government and capital contributions or
investment proceeds are not Annual Revenue. Revenue in a currency other than
United States dollars must be converted using a generally recognized exchange
rate for the last day of that fiscal year. An Organization without a completed
fiscal year must use a reasonable, good-faith annualized estimate.
**Commercial License** means a separate written agreement issued by the
Licensor that authorizes use of the Software outside the rights granted by
this License. A Sponsors Commercial Grant under Section 5.1 is a limited
Commercial License for only the internal-use rights expressly stated in that
section.
**Commercial Offering** means any activity in which a person or Organization,
for direct or indirect commercial advantage:
1. distributes, bundles, installs, or makes the Software available as part of,
or for use with, a product, SDK, IDE, compiler toolchain, appliance, device,
platform, or paid service supplied to a third party;
2. permits a third party to invoke or access the Software’s compilation,
linking, optimization, debugging, or related developer-tool functionality
through a hosted, managed, cloud, API, or build service; or
3. sells, rents, leases, sublicenses, or charges for access to the Software
itself.
Commercial Offering does **not** include:
1. using the Software internally to create, compile, test, or maintain your
own applications or other Generated Output;
2. selling, licensing, hosting, or distributing Generated Output; or
3. Neutral Distribution permitted by Section 7.5.
**Complete Source** means the preferred form for modifying a distributed
version of the Software, including all source files, build scripts, interface
definitions, and modifications needed to build that version, but excluding
general-purpose tools that are normally available independently of the
Software.
**Developer** means an individual authorized by an Organization or its
Affiliates to use the Software for internal development, build, test, or
maintenance. Each individual counts once, and employees and contractors of all
Affiliates are counted together.
**Employee** means a full-time, part-time, or temporary employee. Employees of
all Affiliates are counted together.
**Generated Output** means source code, object code, WebAssembly modules,
packages, metadata, bindings, build artifacts, or other output produced by
normal operation of the Software from user-supplied inputs. Generated Output
does not include the Software itself, a modified version of the Software, or a
substantial portion of the Software that was not intentionally designed by the
Licensor to be included in compiler output.
**Government Entity** means a national, federal, state, provincial,
territorial, municipal, local, or other governmental body, department, agency,
authority, public corporation, or entity exercising governmental functions. A
public educational institution may rely on Section 4.2 for qualifying
educational use.
**Licensor** means Zion Sati, the published pseudonymous licensor and owner of
the Software, or a successor owner identified in an accompanying copyright
notice.
**Organization** means any legal entity, business, sole trader, partnership,
nonprofit body, association, institution, or Government Entity, together with
its Affiliates. Use by an employee, officer, representative, or contractor on an
Organization’s behalf is use by that Organization.
**Qualifying Open-Source Work** means work performed solely to develop, test,
document, maintain, or distribute a software project for which:
1. the complete source code is publicly available under a license approved by
the Open Source Initiative;
2. the Software is not used to produce a proprietary deliverable for a
customer or employer; and
3. neither you nor an Organization on whose behalf you act receives payment
specifically for that work or uses that work primarily to obtain a direct
commercial advantage.
**Qualifying Small Organization** means an Organization that:
1. is not a Government Entity;
2. has fewer than 250 Employees at the time of use; **and**
3. has Annual Revenue of less than USD 10,000,000.
**Sponsors Commercial Grant** means the limited internal commercial-use right
described in Section 5.1, available while an Organization maintains an active
GitHub Sponsors tier designated for its Developer count at
<https://github.com/sponsors/zion-sati>. A current matching tier or sponsorship
receipt is sufficient proof. This License requires no sign-in, activation
code, telemetry, or technical enforcement.
**You** means the individual or Organization exercising rights under this
License.
## 3. Copyright and patent grants
Subject to your continued compliance with this License, the Licensor grants
you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, non-transferable, and
non-sublicensable license under the Licensor’s copyright in the Software to:
1. install, execute, reproduce, and modify the Software for a Permitted Free
Use described in Section 4;
2. make internal copies for employees and contractors carrying out that
Permitted Free Use on your behalf; and
3. distribute the Software only as permitted by Section 7.
Recipients of a permitted distribution receive their rights directly from the
Licensor under this License, not by sublicense from you.
The Licensor also grants you, solely for the rights permitted by this License,
a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under patent claims
that the Licensor owns or controls and that are necessarily infringed by
exercising those rights in the Software as provided by the Licensor. This
patent grant does not cover claims infringed only because of your
modifications, combinations, or additions.
Regardless of whether another Permitted Free Use applies, any person may view
source code that the Licensor has intentionally made public and may make a
reasonable number of internal copies solely for inspection, security review,
interoperability analysis, or deciding whether to evaluate or license the
Software. This inspection right does not authorize execution, modification,
production use, distribution, or use of the Software to develop or deliver a
product or service.
## 4. Permitted Free Uses
You may use the Software without paying a license fee only for one or more of
the following purposes (each a **Permitted Free Use**):
### 4.1 Personal, non-commercial use
Use by an individual on their own behalf for learning, experimentation,
hobbies, or other purposes that are not undertaken in the course of paid work
and are not intended primarily to obtain a commercial advantage.
### 4.2 Education and academic research
Use by students, teachers, lecturers, and educational institutions for
teaching, learning, coursework, or academic research, provided the use is not
performed under a commercial services contract and does not produce a
proprietary deliverable for a third party.
### 4.3 Qualifying Open-Source Work
Use solely for Qualifying Open-Source Work.
### 4.4 Contributions to official NetWasm projects
Use solely to prepare, test, document, or submit a contribution to an
official NetWasm repository designated by the Licensor, provided that you
comply with the repository’s published contributor terms and do not
simultaneously use the Software for a proprietary deliverable or other
commercial project.
### 4.5 Evaluation
Internal evaluation and testing for up to 30 consecutive days beginning with
the first evaluation use by you or your Organization. Evaluation may not be
used for production workloads, customer deliverables, or a Commercial
Offering.
### 4.6 Use by a Qualifying Small Organization
Internal use by a Qualifying Small Organization for any purpose, including
commercial software development, production builds, and creation of products
or services.
A Qualifying Small Organization may sell, license, host, deploy, or distribute
unlimited Generated Output without royalties or additional fees under this
License. This Section does not authorize a Commercial Offering of the Software
itself.
### 4.7 Written community grant
Any additional use expressly approved in writing by the Licensor as a
community, research, nonprofit, accessibility, or public-interest grant.
### 4.8 Contractors and service providers
A contractor or service provider may use the Software directly for a client
only when both the service provider and that direct client are each either:
1. a Qualifying Small Organization;
2. independently entitled to another Permitted Free Use for that work; or
3. covered by a Commercial License.
A customer does not become a user of the Software merely by receiving
Generated Output or by using an application, device, or service created with
NetWasm.
## 5. Uses requiring a Commercial License or Sponsors Commercial Grant
A Commercial License or Sponsors Commercial Grant is required for:
1. any use by or for an Organization that is not a Qualifying Small
Organization, unless the particular use independently qualifies under
Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, or 4.7;
2. any Commercial Offering, regardless of the user’s size, revenue, or
nonprofit status;
3. any use by a Government Entity that does not independently qualify under
Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, or 4.7; and
4. any other use not expressly permitted by Section 4.
The Licensor is not obligated to offer a Commercial License or to offer one on
any particular terms.
### 5.1 Sponsors Commercial Grant for internal use
While an Organization maintains an active GitHub Sponsors tier designated for
its Developer count at <https://github.com/sponsors/zion-sati>, the Licensor
grants that Organization a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free,
non-transferable, and non-sublicensable right to use the Software internally
for commercial development, testing, production builds, and maintenance, up to
the Developer cap of that tier. This is a limited Commercial License under
this License and applies only during the active sponsorship period.
The Organization must use a tier whose Developer cap covers all Developers
using the Software for the Organization and its Affiliates. The available
Developer caps and their USD monthly prices are stated in the published
Licensing Guide; an active matching tier or current sponsorship receipt is the
operative proof. Compliance is honor-system and does not require sign-in,
activation, telemetry, or another technical control.
This grant is strictly internal. It does not authorize a Commercial Offering,
OEM arrangement, bundling, installation for third parties, redistribution,
resale, sublicensing, hosted or API access, or allowing a customer or other
third party to invoke the Software. Those activities require a separate
written commercial or OEM agreement with the Licensor, regardless of the
Organization’s size, Developer count, or active Sponsors tier.
If the sponsorship ends or the Organization exceeds its Developer cap, it must
stop the newly unlicensed use or obtain a separate Commercial License. Rights
in Generated Output remain governed by Section 8.
## 6. Change in qualification
If an Organization ceases to be a Qualifying Small Organization, its rights
under Section 4.6 continue for 60 days solely to allow it to obtain a
Commercial License or stop using the Software. Generated Output created before
or during that period remains governed by Section 8.
A merger, acquisition, reorganization, or change of control must be assessed
using the combined Employees and Annual Revenue of the resulting Organization
and all of its Affiliates.
## 7. Modification and redistribution
### 7.1 Private modifications
You are not required to publish modifications that you use only for a Permitted
Free Use and do not distribute or make available as a Commercial Offering.
### 7.2 Community redistribution
You may distribute unmodified or modified copies of the Software for
non-commercial community purposes only if all of the following conditions are
met:
1. you provide a complete copy of this License with the Software;
2. you preserve all copyright, patent, attribution, and licensing notices;
3. you clearly identify files you materially modified and the date of each
material modification;
4. you do not impose additional terms that restrict a recipient’s exercise of
rights granted by this License;
5. the distribution is not a Commercial Offering; and
6. you comply with Section 7.3 when distributing executable or object-code
forms.
### 7.3 Source availability for redistributed versions
If you distribute a modified executable or object-code version, you must make
its Complete Source available at the same time, under this License, without
charge other than reasonable copying or network-transfer costs.
If you distribute an unmodified executable or object-code version, you may
satisfy this Section by giving recipients a durable link to the matching
official source release.
### 7.4 License for distributed modifications
If you distribute a modification, you license your copyright in that
modification to every recipient under this License. Solely for your original
contribution to that modification, you are treated as a Licensor under
Sections 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 to the extent you own or control
the relevant rights. You also grant a patent license for claims you own or
control that are necessarily infringed by your modification as distributed,
excluding claims infringed only by later modifications or combinations. You
represent that you have the rights needed to grant those licenses.
You may not relicense the Software or a derivative modification under another
license. You may separately license original code that you wrote and that
does not contain or derive from the Software, but recipients must still
receive all portions of the Software and derivative modifications under this
License. Nothing in this Section gives you authority to grant a Commercial
License for code owned by the original Licensor or another contributor.
### 7.5 Neutral Distribution
A general-purpose public package repository, application marketplace,
source-code host, mirror, or general-purpose CI or compute provider may
distribute an unmodified copy of the Software without obtaining a Commercial
License solely for that distribution, even if the operator is commercial,
provided that it:
1. does not charge a fee specifically attributable to the Software;
2. does not market the Software as an included or integrated feature of a paid
product or service;
3. preserves this License and all notices; and
4. does not modify the Software other than non-substantive packaging or
signing changes needed for the distribution channel.
Neutral Distribution does not authorize the operator or its customers to use
the Software outside Section 4.
## 8. Generated Output and separately licensed runtime components
### 8.1 No license inheritance from compiler use
This License does not claim ownership of your inputs or Generated Output and
does not require Generated Output to be licensed under this License. You may
use, copy, modify, sell, license, host, and distribute Generated Output under
terms of your choice.
### 8.2 Output-material grant
To the extent normal operation of the Software intentionally places
copyrightable material owned by the Licensor into Generated Output and no
separate license notice applies to that material, the Licensor grants every
recipient of that Generated Output a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide,
royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce,
modify, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, sell, offer for sale,
import, and otherwise exploit that material as part of or in connection with
Generated Output.
This grant does not permit anyone to characterize the Software itself, a
modified compiler, or substantial portions of the Software not intended for
output as Generated Output.
### 8.3 CoreLib, runtime, WASI, WIT, templates, and injected code
A component that expressly carries the MIT License or another separate license
remains governed only by that separate license, including when linked, copied,
or incorporated into Generated Output. Runtime code, templates, startup code,
generated glue, and other material designated by the Licensor for inclusion in
user applications are outside this License to the extent that they carry such
a separate notice.
### 8.4 Survival
Rights granted by this Section survive expiration or termination of your rights
to use the Software. Termination may create liability for unlicensed use of
the Software, but it does not retroactively change the license of Generated
Output or revoke rights already granted to recipients of Generated Output.
## 9. Notices and trademarks
You may not remove or obscure licensing, copyright, patent, or attribution
notices in the Software.
This License does not grant rights to the names, logos, or trademarks of
NetWasm or the Licensor, except for truthful, nominative references describing
compatibility or origin. A modified version must not imply that it is an
official NetWasm release or endorsed by the Licensor.
## 10. Qualification certification
If the Licensor has a reasonable, good-faith basis to question whether an
Organization qualifies under Section 4.6 or whether its Sponsors Commercial
Grant covers its Developer count, the Licensor may request a written
certification of that Organization’s Employee count, Annual Revenue band, and
Developer count or sponsorship tier. The Organization must respond within 30
days. This Section does not grant a general audit right or require disclosure
of detailed financial statements absent a separate agreement or legal process.
## 11. Patent claims
If you or an Affiliate bring a patent claim alleging that the Software, as
provided by the Licensor, infringes a patent, the patent license granted to
you under Section 3 terminates when the claim is filed. This does not affect
any rights that applicable law does not permit the Licensor to terminate.
## 12. Termination and reinstatement
Your rights under this License terminate automatically if you materially breach
it.
For a first non-willful breach, your rights are reinstated prospectively if you
fully cure the breach within 30 days after you first become aware of it or
receive written notice of it, whichever occurs first. Reinstatement does not
waive claims arising from past unlicensed use. A deliberate breach continued
after written notice is not automatically reinstated.
Sections 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 survive termination to the extent their
nature requires. Rights of recipients who received the Software through a
compliant distribution are not terminated solely because of your breach.
## 13. No support and disclaimer of warranties
The Software is provided **“as is”** and **“as available.”** The Licensor has
no obligation to provide maintenance, updates, support, security fixes,
service levels, or error correction under this License.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Licensor disclaims all express,
implied, and statutory warranties, including warranties of title,
non-infringement, merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a
particular purpose, accuracy, availability, and freedom from defects.
Nothing in this License excludes, restricts, or modifies a guarantee, warranty,
condition, right, or remedy that applicable law does not permit to be
excluded, restricted, or modified.
## 14. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Licensor will not be liable for
indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential loss;
loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, opportunity, or business; business
interruption; or the cost of substitute goods or services arising from or
related to the Software or this License, under any theory of liability, even
if advised that such loss was possible.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Licensor’s aggregate liability
arising from or related to the Software or this License will not exceed USD
100.
These limitations do not apply to liability that applicable law does not
permit to be limited.
## 15. General terms
1. **Applicable law.** You must comply with applicable laws when using or
distributing the Software.
2. **Severability.** If a provision is held unenforceable, it will be enforced
to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions will remain
effective.
3. **No waiver.** A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.
4. **No assignment.** You may not assign this License without the Licensor’s
written consent. The Licensor may assign it with ownership of the Software
or substantially all relevant assets.
5. **Entire agreement.** This License and any notices expressly incorporated
into it form the entire agreement for the community rights granted here. A
Commercial License governs to the extent it expressly conflicts with this
License.
6. **No automatic future versions.** A copy of the Software remains governed
by the version of this License distributed with that copy. The Licensor may
publish new license versions for later Software releases, but a new version
does not retroactively alter rights already granted for an earlier release.
7. **License name.** You may not publish a modified license using the name
“NetWasm Community License” or a confusingly similar name.
8. **Governing law and venue.** This License is governed by the laws in force
in Victoria, Australia, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts
of Victoria, Australia have non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue, and each
party submits to that jurisdiction, without limiting a party’s right to
bring proceedings in any other court of competent jurisdiction.
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