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TaskGuard Licensing

TaskGuard is licensed under the MIT License with Commons Clause. This license allows you to use, modify, and distribute TaskGuard freely while preventing commercial exploitation of the software itself.

Quick Summary

✅ What You CAN Do

  • Use TaskGuard for any purpose (personal, commercial, academic)
  • Modify the code to fit your needs
  • Distribute copies of TaskGuard
  • Create and sell products built using TaskGuard as a development tool
  • Use TaskGuard internally in your organization
  • Contribute back to the project

❌ What You CANNOT Do

  • Sell TaskGuard itself as a standalone product
  • Offer TaskGuard as a hosted/SaaS service
  • Create competing products that are substantially derived from TaskGuard
  • Charge fees for TaskGuard hosting, consulting, or support services

Common Use Cases

✅ Allowed Scenarios

  1. Internal Company Use
  2. Using TaskGuard to manage tasks for your development team
  3. Customizing TaskGuard for your company's workflow

  4. Installing TaskGuard on company machines

  5. Open Source Projects

  6. Using TaskGuard to manage your open-source project tasks
  7. Recommending TaskGuard to contributors

  8. Including TaskGuard in development documentation

  9. Product Development

  10. Using TaskGuard while building your commercial product
  11. Creating applications that happen to use TaskGuard during development

  12. Building products that integrate with TaskGuard's task files

  13. Educational Use

  14. Teaching task management with TaskGuard
  15. Using TaskGuard in courses or training
  16. Academic research involving TaskGuard

❌ Prohibited Scenarios

  1. Commercial Redistribution
  2. Selling TaskGuard as a standalone product
  3. Bundling TaskGuard in a paid software package as the main feature

  4. Creating a paid fork of TaskGuard

  5. Service Offerings

  6. Hosting TaskGuard as a paid web service
  7. Offering TaskGuard-as-a-Service (SaaS)

  8. Charging for TaskGuard hosting or support

  9. Competing Products

  10. Creating a task management product substantially based on TaskGuard
  11. Rebranding TaskGuard and selling it
  12. Building commercial competitors using TaskGuard's codebase

Why This License?

The MIT License with Commons Clause ensures that:

  1. TaskGuard remains free and accessible to developers and teams
  2. Innovation is encouraged through modifications and customizations
  3. Commercial exploitation is prevented while allowing legitimate business use
  4. The community benefits from contributions and improvements

This licensing approach protects the project while enabling widespread adoption and use in both personal and professional contexts.

Full License Text

The complete license text is available in the LICENSE file in the project root. Please review the full license for detailed terms and conditions.

Questions?

If you have questions about licensing or need clarification on a specific use case:

  1. Review the LICENSE file
  2. Check the use case examples above
  3. Open an issue on the GitHub repository

Attribution

While not required by the license, we appreciate attribution when: - Writing about TaskGuard - Sharing TaskGuard with others - Creating content featuring TaskGuard

A simple mention like "Task management powered by TaskGuard" is greatly appreciated!