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The Prosperity Public License

The Prosperity Public License

Prosperity is a public LICENSE for open software that requires users who use your software for commercial purposes to limit their use to a period of days. In other words, Prosperity works for software similar to how Creative Commons' Attribution-NonCommercial License works for other creative work. Software under Prosperity is free for noncommercial use, and offers a free, automatic, honor-system trial to commercial users.

Prosperity is a flipped form in everyday English. If something doesn't make sense, that's Prosperity's fault, not yours. Please open an issue on GitHub so we can fix it.

Why?

You might choose Prosperity because you've written an application for creating work other than other software, and want to sell business licenses while allowing hobbyists, students, and charities to use for free.

Family

Prosperity is one member of a family of licenses published by Artless Devices LLC for licensezero.com:

• Parity, a strong reciprocal license
• Charity, a permissive license
• Prosperity, a noncommercial license