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BRAINAPI2 ENGINE LICENSE
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Version 1.0 — © 2025 Lumen Platforms Inc.
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This software ("BrainAPI Engine" or "the Software") is provided under a combined
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license consisting of:
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(1) The GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3 ("AGPLv3")
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(2) The Commons Clause License Condition v1.0 ("Commons Clause")
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(3) An Additional Use Grant clarifying permitted non-commercial usage
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(4) A Dual Licensing Statement describing how commercial licenses may be obtained
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The intent of this license package is to:
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- Preserve the freedoms of open-source software for research, education, and
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community use.
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- Prevent third parties from selling, hosting, embedding, or repackaging the
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BrainAPI Engine as part of a competing commercial offering.
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- Allow commercial use only via a separate paid Enterprise License agreement
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with Lumen Platforms Inc.
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SECTION 1 — COMMONS CLAUSE LICENSE CONDITION v1.0
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The “Commons Clause” License Condition v1.0 is an addendum to the
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AGPLv3 License granted below. It states:
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"Without limiting other conditions in the License, the license grant does not
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include the right to Sell the Software.
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'Sell' means practicing any or all of the rights granted to you under the License
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to provide the Software or Derivative Works to third parties, for a fee or other
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consideration, including without limitation:
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- Providing the Software or Derivative Works as a hosted or managed service;
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- Embedding or incorporating the Software or Derivative Works in a commercial
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product or service;
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- Distributing the Software or Derivative Works to third parties for any
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commercial purpose.
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Any commercial use of the Software requires a separate commercial license
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from Lumen Platforms Inc."
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The Commons Clause overrides any conflicting provisions of the AGPLv3.
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SECTION 2 — ADDITIONAL USE GRANT (NON-COMMERCIAL USE ALLOWED)
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You are permitted to:
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- Use, modify, study, and run the Software for personal, research, academic,
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experimental, or non-commercial organizational use.
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- Self-host BrainAPI internally for non-commercial, non-revenue-generating
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purposes.
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- Publish modifications, forks, and contributions as long as they also comply
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with this license (including the Commons Clause).
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- Use the Software to build prototypes, internal tools, or demos, provided
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these are not sold, licensed, offered as a service, or incorporated into any
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commercial product.
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These permissions remain free of charge.
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SECTION 3 — PROHIBITED USES WITHOUT A COMMERCIAL LICENSE
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The following uses are NOT permitted under this Community License:
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(1) Offering BrainAPI (modified or unmodified) as a managed or hosted service.
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(2) Embedding or integrating any part of BrainAPI into a commercial SaaS,
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product, or API.
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(3) Selling services that rely on BrainAPI as a core component.
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(4) Using BrainAPI to power commercial applications, LLM pipelines, AI agents,
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enterprise search engines, or knowledge-graph infrastructure.
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(5) Creating a competing product or service based on the BrainAPI engine or
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significant portions of its architecture, algorithms, or modules.
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Any commercial use requires a separate Enterprise License from Lumen Platforms Inc.
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SECTION 4 — COMMERCIAL LICENSE
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Commercial usage, including SaaS hosting, embedding, redistribution, or
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derivative commercial offerings, requires an Enterprise License obtained directly
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from Lumen Platforms Inc.
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Contact:
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Lumen Platforms Inc. — Licensing Department
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SECTION 5 — TRADEMARK POLICY
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The names "BrainAPI", “BrainAPI Engine”, “Lumen Platforms Inc.”, and associated logos are
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trademarks of Lumen Platforms Inc.
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You may not:
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- Use these trademarks in commerce,
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- Portray forks or modified versions as official BrainAPI distributions,
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- Use the trademarks in product names or domain names without permission.
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Fair-use (e.g., citing or referring to BrainAPI) is allowed.
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SECTION 6 — FULL AGPLv3 LICENSE TEXT
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The full text of the GNU Affero General Public License v3 is included below
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exactly as published by the Free Software Foundation. The AGPLv3 applies except
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where modified or restricted by the Commons Clause and Additional Use Grant.
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GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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Version 3, 19 November 2007
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Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation
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[ FULL ORIGINAL AGPLv3 TEXT HERE — UNMODIFIED ]
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For brevity, the text is omitted in this preview.
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In your final LICENSE.txt, paste the complete AGPLv3 text from:
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https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt
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SECTION 7 — EXPLANATORY NOTE (NON-LEGAL)
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This license is designed to:
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- Enable an open-source community ecosystem,
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- Allow free self-hosting for research and internal use,
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- Prevent competitors from extracting BrainAPI internals to build
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competing services, AI agents, or infrastructure,
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- Ensure long-term commercial viability via dual licensing.
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If you need a different arrangement or custom enterprise terms, contact us.
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END OF LICENSE

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