hostbox

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Licensing

hostbox is committed to free and open-source software. Unless otherwise noted, all original software and content produced by hostbox is licensed as follows:

Software

Original source code written by hostbox contributors is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0).

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

In short:

• You may use, modify, and distribute the code
• Modified versions must be distributed under the same license
• If you run modified code on a server that users interact with, you must make the source available to them
• No warranty is provided

Content

Documentation, website text, and other non-software creative works on this site are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

In short:

• You may share and adapt the content for any purpose
• You must give appropriate credit to hostbox
• Adaptations must be distributed under the same license

Third-Party Software

This server runs various third-party projects, each with their own licenses:

• Forgejo — MIT License
• WriteFreely — AGPL v3 License
• MariaDB — GPL v2 License
• Prosody — MIT/X11 License
• Uptime Kuma — MIT License
• Tor — BSD 3-Clause License
• Nginx — BSD 2-Clause License
• Lua / Luarocks — MIT License

Please refer to each project's official repository for full license text.

Source Code

Source code for hostbox-specific projects is available at:

https://git.hostbox.live/hostbox

This includes the website source and any tools developed for this server.

Contact

For licensing questions or inquiries: admin@hostbox.live