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<h1>Licensing</h1>
<p class="lede">What you may and may not do with the code, in plain terms. The licence files in each repo are authoritative; this page explains them.</p>

<h2>Community &mdash; MIT</h2>
<p>Free to use, modify, distribute, and build on, commercially or otherwise. It is a permissive open-source licence with essentially no strings.</p>

<h2>Developer editions &mdash; commercial licence</h2>
<h3>You may</h3>
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<li>Use the source to build, deploy, and operate your own products and services, including commercial ones.</li>
<li>Modify it freely and ship the modified version in your products.</li>
<li>Use it on unlimited projects that you own or operate.</li>
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<h3>You may not</h3>
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<li>Resell, redistribute, sublicense, publish, or share the source &mdash; original or modified &mdash; as a competing product, template, boilerplate, or starter kit.</li>
<li>Make the source publicly available, for example in a public repository.</li>
<li>Remove or alter the licence or copyright notices.</li>
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<p>The distinction is simple: <strong>build products with it, do not sell it as a product.</strong></p>
<p>The licence grants these rights to one purchaser. For team, agency, or reseller licensing, write to <a href="mailto:contact@startone.ai">contact@startone.ai</a>.</p>

<h2>Trademark</h2>
<p>StartOne&trade; is a trademark of Kredit Technology, LLC.</p>
<p>This matters most for Community, so it is worth stating plainly: <strong>MIT gives away the code, not the brand.</strong> You are free to fork Community and build whatever you like &mdash; but you may not use the StartOne name or logo to brand your own product, or in any way that implies endorsement by Kredit Technology, LLC.</p>

<h2>Copyright</h2>
<p>&copy; 2026 Kredit Technology, LLC. All rights reserved.</p>

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