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# 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.