# Big Time Public License

Version 2.0.2

<https://bigtimelicense.com/versions/2.0.2>

## Purpose

These terms let you use and share this software for noncommercial purposes and
in small business for free, while also guaranteeing that paid licenses for big
businesses will be available on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms.

## Acceptance

In order to get any license under these terms, you must agree to them
as both strict obligations and conditions to all your licenses.

## Noncommercial Purposes

You may use the software for any noncommercial purpose.

## Personal Uses

Personal use for research, experiment, and testing for the benefit of
public knowledge, personal study, private entertainment, hobby projects,
amateur pursuits, or religious observance, without any anticipated
commercial application, count as use for noncommercial purposes.

## Noncommercial Organizations

Use by any charitable organization, educational institution, public
research organization, public safety or health organization,
environmental protection organization, or government institution counts
as use for noncommercial purposes, regardless of the source of funding
or obligations resulting from the funding.

## Small Business

You may use the software for the benefit of your company if it meets
all these criteria:

1. had fewer than 20 total individuals working as employees and
   independent contractors at all times during the last tax year

2. earned less than $1,000,000 total revenue in the last tax year

3. received less than $1,000,000 total debt, equity, and other
   investment in the last five tax years, counting investment in
   predecessor companies that reorganized into, merged with, or
   spun out your company

All dollar figures are United States dollars as of 2019. Adjust for
them inflation according to the United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics' consumer price index for all urban consumers, United States
city average, for all items, not seasonally adjusted, with
1982–1984=100 reference base.

## Big Business

You may use the software for the benefit of your company:

1.  for 128 days after your company stops qualifying under
    [Small Business](#small-business)

2.  indefinitely, if the licensor or their legal successor does not
    offer fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms for a
    commercial license for the software within 32 days of
    [written request](#how-to-request) and negotiate in good faith to
    conclude a deal

## How to Request

If this software includes an address for the licensor or an agent of
the licensor in a standard place, such as in documentation, software
package metadata, or an "about" page or screen, try to request a fair
commercial license at that address. If this package includes both
online and offline addresses, try online before offline. If you can't
deliver a request that way, or this software doesn't include any
addressees, spend one hour online researching an address, recording all
your searches and inquiries as you go, and try any addresses that you
find. If you can't find any addresses, or if those addresses also fail,
that counts as failure to offer a fair commercial license by the
licensor under [Big Business](#big-business).

## Fair, Reasonable, and Nondiscriminatory Terms

Fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms may license the software
perpetually or for a term, and may or may not cover new versions of the
software. If the licensor advertises license terms and a pricing
structure for generally available commercial licenses, the licensor
proposes license terms and a price as advertised, and a customer not
affiliated with the licensor has bought a commercial license for the
software on substantially equivalent terms in the past year, the
proposal is fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory.

## Copyright License

The licensor grants you a copyright license to do everything with the
software that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright in it
for any purpose allowed by these terms.

## Notices

You must ensure that anyone who gets a copy of any part of the
software from you also gets a copy of these terms or the URL for them
above, as well as copies of any plain-text lines beginning with
`Required Notice:` that the licensor provided with the software. For
example:

> Required Notice: Copyright Nick Thomas (https://nichoth.com)

## Patent License

The licensor grants you a patent license for the software that covers
patent claims the licensor can license, or becomes able to license,
that you would infringe by using the software.

## Fair Use

You may have "fair use" rights for the software under the law. These
terms do not limit them.

## No Other Rights

These terms do not allow you to sublicense or transfer any of your
licenses to anyone else, or prevent the licensor from granting licenses
to anyone else. These terms do not imply any other licenses.

## Patent Defense

If you make any written claim that the software infringes or contributes
to infringement of any patent, your patent license for the software
granted under these terms ends immediately. If your company makes such
a claim, your patent license ends immediately for work on behalf of
your company.

## Violations

The first time you are notified in writing that you have violated any
of these terms, or done anything with the software not covered by your
licenses, your licenses can nonetheless continue if you come into full
compliance with these terms, and take practical steps to correct past
violations, within 32 days of receiving notice. Otherwise, all your
licenses end immediately.

## No Liability

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.

## Definitions

The **licensor** is the individual or entity offering these terms, and
the **software** is the software the licensor makes available under
these terms.

**You** refers to the individual or entity agreeing to these terms.

**Your company** is any legal entity, sole proprietorship, or other
kind of organization that you work for, plus all organizations that have
control over, are under the control of, or are under common control with
that organization. **Control** means ownership of substantially all the
assets of an entity, or the power to direct its management and policies
by vote, contract, or otherwise. Control can be direct or indirect.

**Your licenses** are all the licenses granted to you for the software
under these terms.

**Use** means anything you do with the software requiring one of your licenses.
