Licensing and commercial use

Auto Tournament is licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. The source is public and free to use, change and share for non-commercial purposes. It is not "open source" in the OSI sense.

Free, no permission needed

• Personal use, hobby projects, learning and research.
• Running tournaments and LAN events that are free to enter.
• Use by non-profit organizations: charities, schools and universities, public research, health and safety organizations, and government bodies, as the license allows.
• Changing the code, forking it and sharing your changes, as long as you keep the LICENSE and the Required Notice line, and your use stays non-commercial.

Commercial use needs a license from the author

Examples of commercial use:

• Hosting or running Auto Tournament for someone else for money, including managed hosting and "tournaments as a service".
• Selling Auto Tournament, a modified version of it, or a product or service built on it.
• Using it to run tournaments or events that charge players, teams or visitors to take part or attend (entry fees, tickets), unless you are a non-profit organization as listed above.
• Using it inside a business, for example an esports organization, venue or company running events for profit.
• Offering paid setup, installation or operation of Auto Tournament for clients.

Forks and modified versions stay under the same license; they can't be relicensed (for example as MIT) or used commercially without a license.

Not sure whether your use counts as commercial? Ask first.

Getting a commercial license

Contact the author, Sivert Gullberg Hansen, through the Auto Tournament Discord or the Auto-Tournament organization on GitHub.

Older versions

Versions up to and including 2.4.15 (released as "MatchZy Auto Tournament") were published under the MIT License and remain under it. Everything since the rename to Auto Tournament is under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0.

This page explains how the author reads the license. If it and the LICENSE ever disagree, the LICENSE wins.