HOSTBMS LICENCE v1.0
Copyright (c) 2026 HostBMS. All rights reserved.

In plain English: HostBMS is free to use for your own business, including
billing your own customers. You may change it for your own installations.
You may not sell, resell or redistribute HostBMS itself, and you may not use
the HostBMS name or logo for your own product or service. The full terms
follow; if they differ from this summary, the terms below apply.

1. GRANT. You may install, use, modify and run this software ("HostBMS") on
   servers you operate or control, for your own business or personal use,
   free of charge. This includes using HostBMS to bill, provision and support
   your own customers, and charging those customers for your own services.

2. NOT PERMITTED. You may not:
   (a) sell, resell, rent, lease, sublicense or otherwise charge for HostBMS
       itself, or include it in a product or bundle that you sell;
   (b) redistribute HostBMS, modified or not, whether free of charge or paid,
       including offering it for download or installing it for third parties
       to run as their own copy;
   (c) offer HostBMS to third parties as a hosted or managed billing service
       in which they operate their own billing business on it;
   (d) use the name "HostBMS", the HostBMS logos, or any confusingly similar
       name or branding for your own product, service or domain, or present
       HostBMS or a modified version of it as your own product. Truthful
       statements such as "our billing runs on HostBMS" are allowed;
   (e) remove or alter copyright, licence or attribution notices in the
       source code or in the software's interface ("Powered by HostBMS").

3. MODIFICATIONS. Changes you make are for your own installations only and
   carry no obligation to share them. Modified versions remain subject to
   this licence, including clause 2.

4. MODULES AND ADD-ONS. You may write your own modules, themes, hooks and
   integrations for HostBMS and distribute or sell them separately, provided
   they do not include HostBMS code beyond what is needed to interface with
   it, and they comply with clause 2(d).

5. THIRD-PARTY COMPONENTS. HostBMS includes third-party libraries (in the
   vendor/ folder) that are licensed under their own terms, such as the MIT
   licence, the GNU LGPL (Smarty, TCPDF, PHPMailer) and others. Those terms
   apply to those components, and nothing in this licence restricts the
   rights they grant you. Their licence texts are in their folders under
   vendor/.

6. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES. HostBMS handles invoices, taxes, payments and
   customer data. You are responsible for checking that its output is correct
   for your business, and for your own compliance with tax, invoicing,
   consumer, payment card and data protection laws (including the UK GDPR
   where it applies).

7. NO WARRANTY AND NO LIABILITY. HostBMS is provided "as is", without
   warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability and
   fitness for a particular purpose. You run it entirely at your own risk. To
   the maximum extent permitted by law, the authors shall not be liable for
   any loss arising from its use, including incorrect invoices or tax
   calculations, missed or duplicate charges, data loss, downtime, lost
   revenue, security breaches, or losses suffered by your own customers. If
   you bill third parties with HostBMS, their recourse is to you, not to us.
   Nothing in this licence limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

8. SUPPORT IS NOT INCLUDED. The software is free; our time is not.
   Installation help, migrations, repairs and any other support are
   chargeable services at our prevailing rates, unless we agree otherwise in
   writing.

9. TERMINATION. Any breach of this licence ends your rights under it
   immediately. Clauses 2(d), 2(e), 6 and 7 survive termination.

10. OTHER USES. If your use is not covered by this licence, for example you
    want to resell or bundle HostBMS, ask first: info@hostbms.com.