PolyForm Strict License 1.0.0

This is a reading of the license PolyForm Strict License 1.0.0. Published by PolyForm Project. It covers Software. Version 2 of the model.

1. What you may do

This license permits the following.
Display. Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
Patent grant. Granting a license under the patent claims that a contributor holds and that the contribution necessarily infringes.
Present. Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
Reproduce. Making copies of the work in any form.

2. What you may not do

This license prohibits the following.
Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
Commercial use. Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
Derivative works. Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
Derive. Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
Distribute. Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.
Modified works. Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
Modify. Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.
Patent license ends on a patent claim. Not a ban on suing: a patent claim ends the patent license, or the whole license, as the text provides.
Sublicense. Granting a third party rights in the work under a license of the licensee's own, rather than passing on the original license.

3. Further terms

The license states these terms about itself.
Validity period: Perpetual.
Region: Worldwide.
Cure period: 32 days.
Field of use restriction: any noncommercial purpose, including personal use and use by a charitable, educational, public research, public safety or health, environmental protection or government organization.
Terminates on breach: Yes.

4. Warranty, liability and support

The license carries the following clauses, quoted from the model.
Warranty disclaimer: As far as the law allows, the software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and the licensor will not be liable to you for any damages arising out of these terms or the use or nature of the software, under any kind of legal claim.
Additional clauses: In order to get any license under these terms, you must agree to them as both strict obligations and conditions to all your licenses.

This text was generated from the machine readable model of the license. It is not legal advice, and only the license itself is binding.