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License

Bizuno is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (AGPL v3). The formal text is authoritative; the summary below is a convenience and is not a substitute for reading the license.

Plain-English summary

Not legal advice. Read the full AGPL v3 if you have a question that actually matters.

You can:

  • Download, install, and run Bizuno on as many machines as you like, for personal use, internal business use, or for your clients.
  • Read, modify, and rebuild the source code however you need.
  • Charge money for hosting, setup, support, training, or customization around Bizuno.
  • Integrate Bizuno with other software you own or license, as long as the combined work respects the AGPL on the Bizuno side.

You must:

  • Keep the copyright notices and license text intact in any copy or modification you distribute or host.
  • If you modify Bizuno and let other people use your modified version — whether by handing out binaries, hosting it as a website for customers, or running it as a SaaS product — offer those users the same access to the modified source code, under the AGPL, that you got from us. This is the “A” in AGPL: the SaaS loophole that lets a GPL-modification hide behind a browser is closed here. If your customers use your modified Bizuno over a network, they’re entitled to the source.
  • License any derivative work under the AGPL v3 (or a later AGPL version at the user’s option).

You cannot:

  • Strip the license and relicense Bizuno as proprietary software.
  • Distribute or host a modified version without making the modified source available to its users.
  • Hold PhreeSoft or the contributors liable for anything the software does or fails to do. Bizuno is provided “as is,” with no warranty.

The short version: use it, change it, charge for services around it. If you ship your changes — to other people or as a hosted service — ship the source too.

Why AGPL and not plain GPL

Plain GPL has a well-known gap: if you modify GPL software and run it as a website, the users of that website don’t receive the modified source, because technically nothing is being “distributed” to them. For a server-side ERP, that’s a meaningful gap. AGPL closes it.

We picked AGPL because Bizuno is specifically the kind of software people run for other people. If a hosting company improves Bizuno and runs it for its customers, those customers should be able to see the improvements and, if they want, run the same code themselves. That’s the deal.

If AGPL is a blocker for a specific commercial integration you’re considering, talk to PhreeSoft. Dual-licensing is possible case-by-case.

Third-party code and licenses

Bizuno bundles and depends on other open-source libraries. Their licenses sit alongside ours. A complete third-party notice list ships in the LICENSES/ folder of each Bizuno release. The common ones:

  • PHP — PHP License.
  • MariaDB / MySQL — GPL v2 (MariaDB) / GPL v2 with FOSS Exception (MySQL).
  • jQuery — MIT.
  • TCPDF — LGPL.
  • PHPExcel / PhpSpreadsheet — LGPL / MIT.
  • Bootstrap (where used) — MIT.

If you find a dependency that isn’t listed, open an issue on GitHub — it’s a bug, not a dispute.

Full text

The full text of the AGPL v3 is below, reproduced verbatim from the Free Software Foundation. It is the operative license.

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