Modified MIT License with SaaS Commercial Rights Reserved
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Underproofed. Dense without being substantial.
Summary
This is a software license agreement, specifically a modified MIT license that grants broad permissions for use, modification, and distribution of software, but with a key restriction: commercial rights for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications are reserved for the copyright holder. The license allows users to freely copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell the software, provided they include the original copyright and permission notices.
Key quotes
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subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
Basically... the MIT do-whatever-you-want license, but with the commercial rights for SaaS reserved for the copyright holder.
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