Licensing

FerroFED is source-available under the Business Source License 1.1: free for every non-production use and for non-commercial production use, with a commercial licence from Cadasto B.V., the Licensor, for any other production use. The authoritative text is LICENSE, with the notice in NOTICE.

Every FerroHEALTH product shares these terms, and the family book’s Licensing and trademarks page states them once: what is free, when you need a commercial licence, how to arrange one, the brand terms of the FerroHEALTH names and marks, and the terms under which contributions are accepted. Where that page and LICENSE differ, LICENSE wins.

What is particular to FerroFED

• The hosted service. The Additional Use Grant excludes offering FerroFED, or a work derived from it, to third parties as a hosted, managed or embedded service through which others discover, query or exchange health records across organisations. That needs a commercial licence in every case (what counts as a hosted service).
• The change date. Each version becomes available under the Apache License 2.0 four years after that version is published. The licence calls that the Change License.
• Contributions. A contribution is licensed under the same licence. You keep your copyright, and you grant the Licensor the relicensing right in CONTRIBUTING.md § Licensing of contributions, accepted by opening the pull request.
• Third-party material. Vendored specifications and third-party material keep their upstream terms, recorded in a PROVENANCE.md beside each vendored tree.
• The brand assets. The logos and icons under assets/brand/ are part of the Licensed Work.

Technical questions go to the maintainer named in MAINTAINERS.md.