LICENSE

# Stroke License

Copyright (c) 2026 Nischal Dahal

You may do whatever you want with the Stroke source code and other source
files (from here on referred to as the "Stroke Source"), with the following
restrictions:

- If you publish any work derived from the Stroke Source, you must make it
  apparent in some way that it is derived from Stroke.
- If you have created an executable program (from here on called "Your
  Program") compiled from some source code and/or other source files (from
  here on called "Your Source"), and if Your Source includes files or source
  code copied or derived from the Stroke Source, then you may only publish
  Your Program under the following conditions:
	- Your Program does not contain any malware or hidden malicious content.
	- You may not charge users money for Your Program, and Your Source must
	  contain the monetization systems present in the Stroke Source,
	  including the license-key activation, trial period tracking, and
	  payment system, without any alterations. All of these systems must be
	  active and working as intended in Your Program, and payments made
	  through them must go to the original author of Stroke. That is unless
	  Your Source features substantial improvements or additions to the
	  Stroke Source, such that Your Source should be considered its own,
	  derivative work, separate from the Stroke Source. Removing, bypassing,
	  or replacing the monetization systems, renaming or restyling the app,
	  or other cosmetic changes do not by themselves count as substantial
	  improvements or additions.
	- Your Program is not published under the name "Stroke", or under a name
	  or icon so similar to Stroke's that users could mistake Your Program
	  for Stroke.

THE STROKE SOURCE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE STROKE SOURCE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE STROKE SOURCE.

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# Notes on the Stroke License

I wrote the Stroke License with two goals in mind:

1. To stop people from publishing apps built from Stroke that contain malware,
   or that look just like Stroke except that when you buy a license, someone
   other than me gets paid.
2. To let everyone else do anything they like with the Stroke source code.
   That includes reusing it in their own free and paid projects, publishing
   bug fixes and improvements to Stroke, and building something substantially
   better on top of Stroke and charging for it.

There are no restrictions on how you use the source code. You can read it,
change it, build it, and run it yourself. The restrictions only apply to
publishing apps compiled from it.

Stroke is source-available, not open source. The Open Source Definition from
the Open Source Initiative does not allow conditions like the ones above, so
this is not an OSI-approved open source license.

Stroke is a paid app with a free trial. Buying Stroke Pro at
https://stroke.click buys a license key for the Stroke app. It does not change
these terms, and you do not need one to use the source code.

## Earlier contributions under the MIT License

Some code in Stroke was contributed while the project was licensed under the
MIT License. That code is included in the Stroke Source under the terms of the
MIT License, and the following notice applies to it:

    MIT License

    Copyright (c) 2024 Stroke Contributors

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
    of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
    in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
    to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
    copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
    furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
    copies or substantial portions of the Software.

    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
    IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
    AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
    LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
    OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
    SOFTWARE.