# NaOS Licence — Source-Available, Non-Commercial (v1.0)

Copyright (c) 2026 **nacer0s** — the NaOS project.
Project home: <https://github.com/nacer0s/NaOS> · <https://nacer0s.com>

> This is a custom **source-available** licence. It is deliberately **not**
> MIT/BSD/GPL and not OSI-approved: money use and re-hosting are restricted.
> If you need commercial rights, write to me first (contacts at the bottom).

## 1. What you MAY do (free, forever)

* View, download, run and study the software for **personal, educational and
  research** purposes.
* Modify it privately for your own learning and non-commercial experiments.
* Share **links** to this project (not copies of it) anywhere — videos,
  articles, classrooms, portfolios.

## 2. What you MAY NOT do without my written permission

1. **No commercial use.** You may not sell, rent, license, bundle into a paid
   product, use in paid services, monetize with ads/paywalls, or make money
   from this software (or parts of it) in any way.
2. **No re-hosting as your own version.** You may not publish, upload or host
   a copy or a modified version of this project (GitHub forks kept public,
   re-uploads, app stores, ISO mirrors presented as yours, "based on"
   rebuilds without approval) as if it were your own project.
3. **No removed attribution.** You may not remove or alter copyright notices,
   this licence, or credit lines in the source, binaries, images or website.

## 3. Attribution — required everywhere

Wherever the software (or a substantial part of it) appears in public —
code, binaries, ISOs, screenshots, videos, articles, talks — you **must**
visibly credit:

> **NaOS by nacer0s — https://github.com/nacer0s/NaOS**

Keep that credit next to the material (description box, README, about page,
video description). Private, unshared copies need no credit.

## 4. Contributions

Anything you send me (pull request, patch, idea) may be merged under these
same terms. You confirm it is your own work and you grant me the rights to
use it in NaOS under this licence.

## 5. No warranty, termination

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE
LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE. **Your rights end automatically if you break
sections 2 or 3.**

## 6. Contact the author

* GitHub: <https://github.com/nacer0s>
* Web: <https://nacer0s.com>
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