From 921a2507153b9b7c7be006dec822226bb9d41d4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kingchenc Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 15:05:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs(license): grant personal-account trading use to match README Append an Additional Permissions section to the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. The base PolyForm text is unmodified; the section only broadens the grant. It explicitly permits a natural person to use the software for their own personal account, including running a trading bot on their own capital for profit, matching the README's plain-English summary (hobby trading bots: all fine). Commercial sale of the software or of services built around it still requires a commercial license. --- LICENSE | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index d008c69f..4ac5ba78 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -131,6 +131,31 @@ software under these terms. **Use** means anything you do with the software requiring one of your licenses. +## Additional Permissions Granted by the Licensor + +These additional permissions supplement the PolyForm Noncommercial +License 1.0.0 above. They only broaden, and never narrow, the +licenses granted to you. The text of the PolyForm Noncommercial +License 1.0.0 above is unmodified. + +Use by a natural person, acting for their own personal account and +not on behalf of any third party, is use for a permitted purpose. +This includes operating an automated trading bot or trading strategy +on that person's own capital, whether or not it earns that person +money. + +For the avoidance of doubt, the licenses above already let you use, +fork, modify, and redistribute the software, and file issues and +contribute changes, for any permitted purpose. Personal projects, +research, education, nonprofit organizations, government use, and +hobby trading bots are permitted purposes. + +Any other commercial use — in particular the commercial sale of the +software itself, or the commercial sale of services built around it — +requires a separate commercial license from the licensor. If you want +to use Wickra commercially, get in touch about a license at +. + --- Required Notice: Copyright 2026 kingchenc (https://github.com/wickra-lib/wickra)