Explanation of Craft-Software Community License Version 1.0

The text of this license has been adopted from the Confluent Community License.

Confluent explains the license this way.

Redis has also adopted a license with a similar goal. Here is their explanation.

Under the Craft-Software Community License, you can access the source code and modify or redistribute it; there is only one thing you cannot do, and that is use it to make a competing SaaS offering. Here is the exact language:

“Excluded Purpose” is making available any software-as a-service, platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service or other similar online service that competes with Craft-Software products or services that provide the Software.