NovaClaw License
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Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Nancy Sadkov. All rights reserved.

NovaClaw is licensed under the **Functional Source License, Version 1.1, with an
Apache 2.0 Future License** (FSL-1.1-ALv2). The complete, unmodified license text
appears below under "Functional Source License, Version 1.1, ALv2 Future License".

In plain language, and without replacing the terms below:

  * You may use, read, modify, and redistribute NovaClaw for free, including
    inside a business, for any purpose that is not a Competing Use.
  * You may not offer NovaClaw — or a substantially similar product — to others
    as a commercial product or service that competes with what we offer.
  * Every released version additionally becomes available under the Apache
    License 2.0 two years after that version is released. That grant is
    irrevocable and is made here, in advance.

If you want to do something the license does not permit, ask. A separate
commercial license is available from the copyright holder.


Additional permissions and clarifications
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These provisions GRANT rights in addition to the license below. They never
restrict the rights the license below gives you. Where they differ from the
license text, whichever is more permissive to you applies.

1. Apps, plugins, and extensions are separate works.
   NovaClaw is an agent OS with a public app registry, and third-party apps are
   expected and welcome. Software that runs on NovaClaw, registers an app,
   implements a plugin or driver interface, communicates with a NovaClaw
   instance over its HTTP or MCP surfaces, or is invoked by NovaClaw as a tool
   is NOT a derivative work of NovaClaw for the purposes of this license, and
   you may license and sell it under any terms you choose, including
   proprietary terms. Distributing NovaClaw itself alongside such an app is
   still governed by the license below.

2. Configuration, recipes, prompts, and knowledge are yours.
   Configuration files, agent definitions, skills, presets, recipe folders,
   system prompts, and knowledge-base content that you author are your own work
   and carry no obligation under this license, even when written in a format
   NovaClaw defines or stored in a NovaClaw store.

3. Output is yours.
   Anything NovaClaw produces when you run it — code, documents, reports,
   artifacts — is yours. We claim no rights in it.

4. Third-party components keep their own licenses.
   NovaClaw incorporates third-party open-source components, including code
   derived from opencode (MIT License, Copyright (c) 2025 opencode). Those
   components remain governed by their own licenses. The terms below apply to
   NovaClaw's own code and to the combined work as distributed — not to the
   third-party components taken in isolation, which remain available under
   their original licenses from their respective authors. See the NOTICE file
   and the licenses/ directory for full text and attribution.

5. Trademarks are licensed separately, and are not licensed here.
   This license grants no rights in the NovaClaw name or logo. See the
   TRADEMARK.md file, which explains what you may and may not call a fork.


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# Functional Source License, Version 1.1, ALv2 Future License

## Abbreviation

FSL-1.1-ALv2

## Notice

Copyright 2025-2026 Nancy Sadkov

## Terms and Conditions

### Licensor ("We")

The party offering the Software under these Terms and Conditions.

### The Software

The "Software" is each version of the software that we make available under
these Terms and Conditions, as indicated by our inclusion of these Terms and
Conditions with the Software.

### License Grant

Subject to your compliance with this License Grant and the Patents,
Redistribution and Trademark clauses below, we hereby grant you the right to
use, copy, modify, create derivative works, publicly perform, publicly display
and redistribute the Software for any Permitted Purpose identified below.

### Permitted Purpose

A Permitted Purpose is any purpose other than a Competing Use. A Competing Use
means making the Software available to others in a commercial product or
service that:

1. substitutes for the Software;

2. substitutes for any other product or service we offer using the Software
   that exists as of the date we make the Software available; or

3. offers the same or substantially similar functionality as the Software.

Permitted Purposes specifically include using the Software:

1. for your internal use and access;

2. for non-commercial education;

3. for non-commercial research; and

4. in connection with professional services that you provide to a licensee
   using the Software in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

### Patents

To the extent your use for a Permitted Purpose would necessarily infringe our
patents, the license grant above includes a license under our patents. If you
make a claim against any party that the Software infringes or contributes to
the infringement of any patent, then your patent license to the Software ends
immediately.

### Redistribution

The Terms and Conditions apply to all copies, modifications and derivatives of
the Software.

If you redistribute any copies, modifications or derivatives of the Software,
you must include a copy of or a link to these Terms and Conditions and not
remove any copyright notices provided in or with the Software.

### Disclaimer

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

IN NO EVENT WILL WE HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE
SOFTWARE, INCLUDING INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY IN ADVANCE.

### Trademarks

Except for displaying the License Details and identifying us as the origin of
the Software, you have no right under these Terms and Conditions to use our
trademarks, trade names, service marks or product names.

## Grant of Future License

We hereby irrevocably grant you an additional license to use the Software under
the Apache License, Version 2.0 that is effective on the second anniversary of
the date we make the Software available. On or after that date, you may use the
Software under the Apache License, Version 2.0, in which case the following
will apply:

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
this file except in compliance with the License.

You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
