SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Luna-Non-Commons-1.2
Copyright © 2025–2026 OKCompressor contributors and applicable copyright holders.
Freedom without exploitation.
Human use stays free.
Forking stays possible.
Attribution stays intact.
Maintainers remain free.
Commercial organizations must reciprocate.
These principles guide interpretation of this License where a provision is ambiguous.
| # | Principle | Operational meaning |
|---|---|---|
| L1 | Human sovereignty | A natural person may inspect, use, learn from, modify, preserve, self-host, and fork the Software. |
| L2 | Fork is sovereignty | Lawful users may preserve and continue versions independently of the original repository, registry, or maintainer. Forking does not erase provenance, attribution, or license obligations. |
| L3 | Maintainers remain free | Publishing the Software creates no duty to continue development, support, hosting, compatibility, or availability. |
| L4 | Dependency does not create servitude | A party that relies critically on the Software is responsible for its own continuity, mirrors, backups, forks, staffing, and recovery. |
| L5 | Extraction implies reciprocity | Commercial organizations that derive operational or economic value from the Software require a separate commercial or reciprocity agreement. |
| L6 | Release mode stays explicit | Redistributed Covered Works must preserve license terms, attribution, provenance, and modification notices. Source availability is determined by the Release Mode of the distributed Covered Work. |
| L7 | Automation inherits its operator | Use through an AI model, agent, contractor, subsidiary, service, or technical intermediary is treated as use by the party directing or materially benefiting from that use. |
| L8 | No enclosure by redistribution | A permitted redistribution may not remove downstream rights granted here to lawful Human Users. |
| L9 | Patent aggression terminates rights | Patent claims used to restrict the Software or Covered Works terminate the claimant's rights under this License. |
| L10 | No metric overrides the License | Automation, optimization, policy, or internal scoring cannot silently replace or narrow the rights and duties stated here. |
Software means source code, executable or object code, documentation, configuration, examples, data definitions, build material, and other copyrightable material distributed by an applicable copyright holder under this License. A particular release need not contain every category of material.
Covered Work means the Software and any copyrightable modification or derivative work of the Software to the extent applicable law recognizes the relevant rights.
A Human User is a natural person acting for themselves and not acting on behalf of, under the direction of, or primarily for the benefit of a Commercial Organization.
A Human User may earn money from their own independent work using the Software. A person does not become a Commercial Organization merely because they are paid for their own work.
A Commercial Organization means a corporation, company, partnership, fund, incorporated business, employer, or other legal entity substantially engaged in commercial activity or organized to create private economic value.
A person acting as an employee, officer, contractor, agent, or intermediary for such an organization is treated as that organization for the relevant use.
Commercial Organizational Use includes, without limitation:
- internal production use;
- internal tooling;
- integration into a commercial product or service;
- hosted or SaaS deployment;
- resale or paid distribution;
- use in revenue-generating infrastructure;
- use by contractors on behalf of a Commercial Organization;
- use to reduce material operating costs of a Commercial Organization;
- incorporation into proprietary production systems;
- commercial model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, code generation, retrieval, or agentic workflows using substantial portions of the Software or Covered Works.
Evaluation solely to decide whether to obtain a commercial license is permitted.
Modification means a changed, adapted, translated, extended, transformed, or derived version of the Software, whether produced manually or with automated systems.
Distribution means providing a copy of a Covered Work to another party in source, executable, object, package, archive, or other copyrightable form, other than temporary internal transfer solely within the rights already granted to that party.
A Release Mode states whether corresponding source code is supplied for a particular Distribution.
A Source-Available Release includes the corresponding source code, or identifies a durable location from which recipients may obtain that source.
A Binary-Only Release distributes executable, object, package, archive, or other non-source material without an obligation under this License to publish, disclose, escrow, or provide corresponding source code.
Where reasonably practical, the applicable Release Mode should be stated with the Distribution.
Binary-Only Release mode does not waive rights independently granted to a recipient by applicable law.
Subject to this License, each Human User receives a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to:
- run and use the Software;
- inspect and study it;
- copy it;
- modify it;
- use automated tools or AI systems to understand or modify it;
- self-host it;
- preserve and mirror versions lawfully received;
- create and maintain forks;
- use it in independent personal, educational, artistic, research, experimental, or professional work;
- distribute Covered Works under the conditions of this License.
No Human User owes a maintainer labor, payment, telemetry, registration, contribution, support, or continuing participation merely for exercising these rights.
A Commercial Organization does not receive production, operational, or commercial exploitation rights under this public License.
Commercial Organizational Use requires one of the following:
A separate written commercial license from the applicable licensor or authorized licensing entity.
A separate written agreement defining an accepted contribution to the project or its supporting infrastructure, which may include funding, engineering, maintenance, infrastructure, research, documentation, security work, or another agreed form of reciprocity.
Public availability of source code does not itself grant Commercial Organizational Use.
Downloading the Software, employing a Human User, using a contractor, operating through a subsidiary, or delegating activity to an automated system does not bypass this section.
A Human User who distributes a Covered Work must:
- distribute the Covered Work under this same License;
- include the complete text of this License;
- preserve all applicable copyright, authorship, and attribution notices;
- clearly identify material modifications;
- preserve available provenance information where reasonably practical;
- identify the Distribution as Source-Available or Binary-Only where reasonably practical;
- avoid representing a fork or derivative as an official version unless authorized.
A distributor may not impose additional contractual or technical restrictions that prevent a recipient from exercising rights that this License grants to that recipient.
Independent works are not automatically Covered Works merely because they communicate with the Software through ordinary interfaces.
A distributor choosing Source-Available Release mode must provide corresponding source with the Distribution or identify a durable location from which recipients may obtain it.
A distributor may distribute a Covered Work in Binary-Only Release mode without providing corresponding source code.
This License by itself creates no obligation to publish, disclose, escrow, mirror, or provide source code for a Binary-Only Release.
Binary-Only Release mode does not alter the commercial restrictions, attribution requirements, provenance requirements, modification notices, or other obligations of this License.
Lawful Human Users may, without additional permission:
- preserve complete copies of versions they lawfully receive;
- mirror repositories and release artifacts;
- maintain independent package or artifact archives;
- self-host;
- remove network dependencies;
- continue abandoned versions;
- create independent forks;
- replace maintainers or governance in their own forks;
- migrate their own data away from a deployment they control.
Any fork or Covered Work that is distributed to another party must:
- retain this License for all Covered portions;
- include the complete text of this License;
- retain applicable copyright and attribution notices;
- identify material modifications;
- preserve provenance information where reasonably practical;
- identify the distributed fork as Source-Available or Binary-Only where reasonably practical;
- if distributed as Source-Available, make corresponding source code available to recipients;
- avoid falsely implying official status, endorsement, or continuity with the original project.
The right to fork does not include the right to erase provenance.
A fork may change its own name, governance, architecture, maintainers, roadmap, interfaces, distribution model, and project direction, provided the Covered portions remain subject to this License and attribution obligations.
No repository, package registry, hosting platform, maintainer, or service is promised to remain permanently available.
Publication of the Software does not create a duty of perpetual labor.
No author, contributor, or maintainer is required to:
- continue development;
- provide technical support;
- answer issues or messages;
- merge contributions;
- maintain compatibility;
- provide updates or security patches;
- operate servers, registries, repositories, or other infrastructure;
- preserve any particular release;
- maintain another party's production environment;
- continue participation in the project.
Dependency does not create servitude.
A party that makes the Software critical to its own operations assumes responsibility for continuity, including appropriate mirrors, backups, reproducible builds, known-good versions, independent maintenance capacity, or a separate support agreement.
An act performed through an automated system, AI model, coding agent, contractor, subsidiary, hosted service, or other intermediary is treated as an act of the person or organization that directs, controls, requests, or materially benefits from that act.
Automation does not create a licensing exception.
Where copyright or other applicable rights in the Software extend to machine-generated output or a resulting Covered Work, that material remains subject to this License.
This section does not claim rights that applicable law does not provide.
Redistributions of Covered Works must retain:
- this License;
- applicable copyright notices;
- existing authorship and attribution notices;
- notices identifying material modifications;
- provenance information already supplied with the Covered Work, where reasonably practical.
A modified distribution must not falsely imply endorsement by the original project or contributors.
Attribution must not be removed, obscured, or rewritten in a manner that materially misrepresents the origin of Covered portions.
If a licensee or an organization controlling, controlled by, or under common control with that licensee initiates a patent claim alleging that the Software or a Covered Work infringes a patent, that licensee's rights under this License terminate.
Rights also terminate if a licensee asserts patent rights specifically to prevent another lawful recipient from exercising permissions granted by this License with respect to the Software or a Covered Work.
This section does not prohibit defensive responses to patent litigation initiated by another party.
This License grants copyright permissions only.
It does not grant rights to trademarks, service marks, project names, logos, contributor identities, or branding except as necessary for reasonable attribution.
Forks must not imply official status or endorsement without permission.
The rights granted to Human Users by this License are not conditioned on:
- registration;
- identification;
- telemetry;
- advertising identifiers;
- behavioral tracking;
- remote authorization;
- disclosure of private repositories.
Optional network services may have separate terms, but they do not alter the copyright permissions granted here.
Rights terminate automatically when a licensee knowingly acts outside the scope of this License.
For an accidental, non-deliberate breach other than patent aggression or intentional circumvention of Section 3, rights are automatically restored if the breach is fully cured within thirty (30) days after discovery or written notice.
Repeated intentional violations are not entitled to automatic restoration.
Commercial rights exist only under a separate written agreement.
Unless a contributor clearly states otherwise before acceptance, an intentional contribution submitted for inclusion in the Software may be distributed under this License.
Submitting a contribution does not create any obligation to perform future work, maintenance, support, or review.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
NO AUTHOR, CONTRIBUTOR, OR MAINTAINER GUARANTEES CONTINUITY, SECURITY, COMPATIBILITY, PERFORMANCE, AVAILABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NO AUTHOR, CONTRIBUTOR, OR MAINTAINER SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, LOSS, OR OTHER LIABILITY ARISING FROM THE SOFTWARE, ITS USE, NON-USE, FAILURE, MODIFICATION, DISCONTINUATION, UNAVAILABILITY, OR A PARTY'S DEPENDENCE UPON IT.
If a provision of this License is held unenforceable in a particular jurisdiction, that provision shall be interpreted as narrowly as necessary to preserve its intended effect where lawful, and the remaining provisions remain in effect.
This is a custom human-use and commercial-reciprocity license. A particular Distribution may be Source-Available or Binary-Only.
It is not represented as approved by the Open Source Initiative or as satisfying any third-party definition of "open source."
The copyright holder or authorized licensing entity may publish later versions of the Luna Non-Commons License.
A Covered Work remains governed by the specific version under which that copy was distributed unless its copyright holder expressly permits use under a later version.
Separate commercial licenses, exceptions, or reciprocity agreements may be issued in writing by an authorized rights holder.
The compact expression of this License is:
Humans may learn, create, preserve, modify, and fork.
Forking never erases attribution or provenance.
Covered forks keep the same License.
Maintainers remain free.
Dependency does not create servitude.
Automation inherits the obligations of its operator.
Commercial organizations must reciprocate before extracting operational or economic value.
The rules stay visible. The exit stays real.
Freedom without exploitation.