License

NamiDB is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL).

What this means in practice

• Free for development, testing, internal production use, and any use that does not compete with a hosted NamiDB offering from the Licensor (LESAI, Corp.).
• Automatically converts to Apache License 2.0 three years after each release — the Change Date is per-release.
• A separate commercial license is available for teams that need to embed or redistribute NamiDB outside the bounds of BSL, including offering it as a hosted database service.

Building on NamiDB?

You’re almost certainly fine under BSL — the only restricted use is competing managed-NamiDB services. Building your product on top of NamiDB, embedding it in your app, running it in your own cloud — all permitted.

When to email about a commercial license

• You are building a competing managed-NamiDB SaaS.
• You are redistributing NamiDB embedded inside a closed-source product at scale.
• You need OSI-approved-license-only procurement and want Apache 2.0 applied earlier than the BSL Change Date.

For any of the above: info@namidb.com.

Why BSL

The same reason CockroachDB, MariaDB MaxScale, and Sentry chose it: keep the engine open and forkable, but protect the cloud business model that funds the open development.

The engine is open. The cloud is the business.

See also

• LICENSE in the engine repo
• Contributing