elba.works

The Elba License

Mortalware.

Software with an end date that is not death.

The full text of the license ships in the package as LICENSE.txt. This page is the plain-language summary. If the summary and the license disagree, the license governs.

  • · You bought Elba. You may use it, forever, on your own machines, for anything you like, private or commercial.
  • · You may give away the one extra copy in gift/ to one other person. They then have the same rights you do.
  • · Until the Change Date, you may not sell it, publish it, or hand out copies beyond that single gift.
  • · On the Change Date — 1 January 2030 — Elba automatically becomes free and open source for everyone under the MIT License. No permission needed.
  • · The bundled fonts (Crimson Text, IBM Plex Mono) are under the SIL Open Font License. See THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt.
  • · There is no warranty. Elba is provided as-is.