Depending on the type of your legal entity and github sponsorship or purchase tier, you are granted permission to use Aetherspace for your project. Individuals and small companies are allowed to use the Aetherspace GREEN stack starter to create repositories for projects (even commercial), while a company license is required for for-profit organisations of a certain size. This three-tier system was designed to ensure funding for this project while still allowing the source code to be available at low cost to most, as well as keep it free for non-profit organisations and non-commercial personal use.
Read below for the exact terms of use.
Copyright (c) 2024 Thorr Stevens
You are eligible to use the Aetherspace GREEN stack starter for personal and commercial use if granted access free of charge by the author (Thorr Stevens, a.k.a. @codinsonn) AND while being any of the following:
- a non-profit or not-for-profit organisation
- a company currently or previously employing the author (Thorr Stevens, a.k.a. @codinsonn)
- an open-source maintainer of tech used by Aetherspace or (once) sponsored by the author (see list)
- evaluating whether the template repo is a good fit, and are not yet using it in a commercial way
- an embassador of the project, linking to Aetherspace or the author in your app and / or README file
Permission is hereby granted, to any person eligible for the "Free", "Personal" or "Commercial" licenses, to use the software non-commercially or commercially for the purpose of creating repositories and kickstarting projects and to modify the software to their own liking, for the purpose of fulfilling their custom use case.
Meaning you can:
- Use the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches to create unlimited End Products.
- Modify, expand and personalise the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches to create derivative components and templates for internal team use. Though any derivative template repos are also subject to this license.
- Use the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches and derivatives to create unlimited End Products for unlimited Clients.
- Use the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches and derivatives to create End Products where the End Product is sold to End Users.
- Use the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches and derivatives to create End Products that are open source and freely available to End Users. (Excluding public template repositories or publicly published / relicensed reusable UI kits or Design Systems)
Examples of allowed use cases:
- Creating a personal website and/or mobile app.
- Creating a personal project starter kit or template repository for all your (team's) projects.
- Creating a web and/or mobile application for a client that will be owned by that client.
- Creating a commercial SaaS application (like an AI generation app for example) where end users have to pay a fee to use the application.
- Creating a commercial self-hosted web and/or mobile application that is sold to end users for a one-time fee.
- Creating a web and/or mobile application where the primary purpose is clearly not to simply re-distribute the components (like an event or organization app that uses the components for its UI for example) that is free and open source, where the source code is publicly available but not reproducible as it's own template repository.
In summary, you are allowed to use the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches for any purpose, as long as you are not competing with Aetherspace or using it for anything that is illegal or harms others.
These allowed usecases apply to all licenses, including the personal and commercial licenses.
It is not allowed to copy or modify Aetherspace code for the purpose of selling, renting, licensing, relicensing, sublicensing your own derivate of the GREEN stack starter template.
Meaning you cannot:
- Use the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches to create End Products designed to allow an End User to build their own End Products using the Template code, nor derivatives of the Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches.
- Re-distribute the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches or derivatives of the Aetherspace Template separately from an End Product, neither in code or as design asset.
- Use the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches to produce anything that may be deemed by Aetherspace Digital, in their sole and absolute discretion, to be competitive or in conflict with the business of Aetherspace Digital as a provider of premium universal app starter templates and plugin branches.
Examples of disallowed use cases:
- Forking the Aetherspace starter repository as a public template repo published for others to use. (Private internal forks are encouraged instead)
- Creating a publicly available or relicensed UI kit or design system from the Aetherspace components. (Private internal UI kits and design systems are encouraged instead)
- Creating a theme, template, or project starter kit from the Aetherspace GREEN stack starter and making it available either for sale or for free.
In summary, don't use the Aetherspace Template, its Components or Plugin Branches for competing with Aetherspace as a starter template or use it for anything that is illegal or harms others.
These disallowed usecases apply to all licenses, including the personal and commercial licenses.
If you are found to be in violation of the license, access to the Aetherspace GREEN stack starter repos will be terminated and you will be banned from sponsoring for or buying future licenses. You are granted only the permissions described in this license's allowed use cases. You will be required to remove any Github projects that fall under the disallowed usecases, or take down any promotional websites advertising your derivative of the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches. No refund of past sponsorships or license costs will be provided.
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.
Aetherspace Digital’s liability to you for costs, damages, or other losses arising from your use of the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches — including third-party claims against you — is limited to a refund of your license fee. Aetherspace Digital may not be held liable for any consequential damages related to your use of the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches.
Unsure which license you need, or unsure if your use case is covered by our licenses?
Message or Email [email protected] with your questions.
Support is provided on a best-we-can-do basis via GitHub Discussions or Github Issues.
Copyright (c) 2024 Thorr Stevens
You are required to obtain a personal license to use the Aetherspace GREEN stack starter if you are not within the group of entities eligible for a free license or wish to access our wider range of plugins. You may acquire a personal license by purchasing this license tier directly or by sponsoring the author (Thorr Stevens, a.k.a. @codinsonn) for the corresponding personal license amount through Github Sponsors. When eligable for the personal license, this license will enable you to use Aetherspace for the allowed use cases specified in the free license.
The personal license grants permission to individuals or up to three individuals in the same company (the Licensees) to access and use the Template Repo, its Components and Plugin Branches.
You are eligible to use the Aetherspace GREEN stack starter for personal and commercial use while having purchased the personal license or when sponsoring the author (Thorr Stevens, a.k.a. @codinsonn) for the monthly corresponding amount for personal use through Github Sponsors AND while being any of the following:
- an individual, freelancer or solopreneur
- a for-profit organisation with up to 3 employees
Entities not eligible for the personal license are required to obtain a commercial license.
Copyright (c) 2024 Thorr Stevens
You are required to obtain a company license to use the Aetherspace GREEN stack starter if you are not within the group of entities eligible for a free or personal license. You may acquire a commercial license by purchasing this license tier directly or sponsoring the author (Thorr Stevens, a.k.a. @codinsonn) for any of the corresponding commercial license amounts through Github Sponsors. When eligable for the full commercial license, this license will enable you to use Aetherspace for the allowed use cases specified in the free and personal licenses.
You are eligible to use the Aetherspace GREEN stack starter for full commercial use while having purchased the commercial license or sponsoring the author (Thorr Stevens, a.k.a. @codinsonn) for the monthly corresponding amount for commercial use through Github Sponsors.
This includes:
- for-profit organisations with more than 3 employees
Licensee(s) - The individual(s) who have purchased a Personal License. Or the company, organization or any of their employees that have purchased a Commercial License.
End Product - A website, web application, mobile application, desktop application, or any other product that the End User can interact with, that incorporates the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches as well as other software, technologies, or content not created by Aetherspace Digital.
End User - The person or entity that uses the End Product.
Client - The person or entity that owns the End Product.
Sublicense / Relicense - To grant to any third party a right to use the Aetherspace Template, its Utils, APIs, Components or Plugin Branches for free or for a fee.
I based a first draft of this license off of Remotion's custom license and made the rest up as I went along. It's designed to be a low effort, three tiered system that allows for free, small and unlimited commercial use whenever either of those makes sense. I'm not a lawyer, but I'd say it seems fair for every use case.
As long as you're not using it for any of the disallowed usecases, I don't care what you do with aetherspace or how you got access to it. I'm not going to sue you or anything. I just want to make sure that the template repo is not used to compete with my business or somehow (promote) harm (to) others or earths ecosystems.
If you have the means, I would appreciate it if you would purchase the license and / or sponsor me on Github Sponsors, but I'm not going to force you to do so.
Yes. As long as you or your company supported me financially at least once at some point in the past, you are allowed to keep any copies and custom derivatives of the Aetherspace GREEN-stack template repo and use it for the allowed usecases laid out in the license you had initially been eligible for.
However, you will lose access to the original template repo and any further updates / patches / bugfixes / new plugin branches or features which are added after you've canceled or stopped sponsoring.
Yes. If you can include a "Built with Aetherspace" reference in your app linking to the project and author, as far as I'm concerned, you're allowed to use the template repo for free for personal use. Alternatively, you can keep the disclaimer the README.mdx file comes with:
This project was bootstrapped with the Aetherspace GREEN stack starter, the Evergreen repo setup for all your full-product universal app development needs {...💚} Enabling the project to be built for Web, iOS, Android, PWA, Static, SSR, REST and GraphQL all at once 👇 ... while also documenting your code automatically with Storybook.
It's not really necessary, but if you'd like official confirmation, you can contact me via [email protected] (or twitter). I will then evaluate and personally grant you access to the template repo, after which your usecase will officially fall under the eligibility of the 'Free License'.
This only counts for personal use though. If you're a mid size to larger company, the company will still need to purchase a commercial license.
Can I instead sponsor the open-source projects, contributors and libraries that Aetherspace is built on in order to get free access?
Yes. You absolutely can.
If I can verify that you have sponsored a related open-source project, contributor or library whose work Aetherspace is built on, contact me and I will grant you free access to the template repo. Your usecase will then fall under the 'Free License' eligibility as I personally granted you access free of charge.
This only counts for personal use though. If you're a mid size to larger company, the company will still need to purchase a commercial license.
Yes. This is intended to be temporary sponsorware. As soon as a certain purchase or sponsorship threshold is reached where I've technically made back the time I invested in the project, I will open-source the template repo. Sponsorships for access and license compliance will then become fully optional for all allowed usecases when it comes to individuals and smaller teams, but mid to large sized companies that can easily affort it will still be encouraged (or even required) to purchase a license. Also, any and all disallowed usecases will remain in effect.
I'm not sure when that will be, but I'm working on including a transparancy section on my personal website that will show the current status of the sponsorship threshold, as well as how much gets donated to open-source projects, contributors and libraries that Aetherspace is built on.