LICENSE — TO BE DECIDED

The operator has not yet chosen a license for this codebase.

Until a license is added, all rights are reserved by the copyright holder.
No one is granted any right to use, copy, modify, or distribute this code
without explicit written permission.

## Candidate licenses under consideration

- MIT — maximum permissiveness, anyone can do anything
- Apache 2.0 — like MIT plus patent grant
- GPL / AGPL — copyleft, derivatives must be open
- Business Source License (BSL) — open for non-production, paid for production
- Polyform Noncommercial / Hybrid — open for some uses, paid for others
- Proprietary / Dual — the operator keeps rights, with optional paid license

The license decision affects:
- Whether end users can fork the runtime
- Whether competitors can build on the FVW method
- Whether community contributions are accepted and under what terms
- Whether the operator can charge for hosted VibeCoder without open-sourcing it

This file exists as a placeholder. It will be replaced when the license is chosen.

## What this means in practice

Until the license is decided:
- The code is read-only for outside parties (no copying, no forking, no distribution)
- The operator retains all rights
- The doctrine in the FVS Pact (freshvibe-studio/pact/) describes the INTENT (open tiers, MIT for generic modules) but the actual license has not been added to this repo yet
- VibeCoder (the web app) is operator-internal and uses this runtime under the operator's own terms

## Related files

- /workspace/freshvibe-cms/README.md — to be updated with the chosen license
- /workspace/roadmap/index.html — the "P0.2: add license" task in Phase 0

The operator will be prompted to choose a license before any of this code is
publicly distributed.