Software distributed with no stated terms is all rights reserved by default.
That is the opposite of what we mean, so the bundle ships LICENSE.txt and this
page says the same thing without the legal register.
You may#
- Run it free of charge, with no fee now or later
- Run any number of instances, on any hardware you control or rent
- Serve any number of accounts, users, workspaces and vaults
- Store any amount of data
- Use it inside a company or an organisation, for that organisation's own people — this is not a "personal use only" licence
- Modify the deployment bundle — compose files, Caddy config, scripts — and build your own tooling around it
- Keep backups, including of the container image, for as long as you like
No licence key is required and none is issued. The server does not phone home, does not check entitlements, and will not stop working.
You may not#
- Sell, resell, rent or redistribute the software or the image to third parties
- Run it for third parties as a paid or managed service. Running it for your own organisation is not that, and is allowed.
- Remove copyright notices or present it as your own work
- Reverse engineer the image, except where the law says that restriction does not hold
If you want to do something in that list, write to contact@solidinvent.pl and ask. The answer may well be yes.
The source is not public#
Said outright rather than left to be discovered: this is free in price, not free in the Open Source Definition sense. The source is not published and the licence grants no rights to it.
You should know what that costs you, so here is what remains verifiable without it:
- The image is built by CI and tagged by version, so the tag you pin is the artifact you run
- Everything in the deployment bundle is plain text you can read before running anything
- Your data is a SQLite file and a folder of blobs under the volume you mount — it never leaves the machine, and nothing in the software sends it anywhere
- The export turns a backup into a plain Markdown vault with no plugin required, so leaving does not depend on us
It does not expire#
Permission for a version you already have is perpetual and irrevocable. A later version may carry different terms, but that cannot reach backwards — whatever you are running stays licensed under the terms it shipped with.
No warranty#
It is provided as is, with no warranty of any kind. You are running this on your
own infrastructure: keep backups. The bundle ships backup.sh and a systemd
timer for precisely that reason.
The governing document is LICENSE.txt inside
the deployment bundle.
Where this page and that file differ, the file wins.