Moin server licence

Version of 2 October 2026

Copyright © 2026 Asynkron (CVR 42349399), Denmark. All rights reserved.

moin-server is proprietary software. It is distributed as a compiled binary
and its source code is not public. This licence says what you may do with it.
By installing or running moin-server you accept it. "We" means Asynkron.


What you may do

You may install and run moin-server, free of charge, to host communities of
your own: for yourself, your friends, your group, or the company or
organisation you are part of, including other companies under the same
ownership. There is no limit on slots, rooms or the number of servers you run
this way, and it makes no difference whether your group is commercial.

A community is your own when you or your organisation run it and decide who
is in it. Charging people to be members of your own community is fine.

Where you run it is up to you. Renting a machine, a virtual server or space
on a cloud or container platform and installing moin-server there yourself is
running it yourself.

People who work for you, as employees or as contractors you hire, may install
and look after moin-server for you. The community is still yours, and they
need no permission of their own.

You may make the copies of moin-server you need for this, such as backups, a
copy in your own private registry, or a container image of your own built
around it, as long as those copies stay with you or your organisation.


What you may not do

Unless we have agreed to it in writing, you may not:

- host, run or manage Moin servers for other people or organisations as a
  service you offer, whether you charge for it or not. This covers hosting
  providers, resellers, managed and one-click offerings, and anything else
  where what you offer is a Moin server for someone else's community.
- rent out or give away rooms or other space on your server for other
  people's groups to use as a community of their own. That is hosting for
  others too.
- sell, rent, lease or sublicense moin-server.
- redistribute moin-server, on its own or included in something else you
  distribute, such as a device, an app, an installer or a public mirror.
- modify, decompile or reverse engineer moin-server, except where the law
  gives you a right to that which can't be excluded.
- remove or change this licence or any notice that comes with moin-server.


Hosting Moin for others

If you want to offer Moin hosting, include moin-server in something you
distribute, or need terms this licence doesn't give you, write to
contact@moin.chat.


Third-party software

moin-server includes open source software. Its licences are in the
THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES file that comes with moin-server. Nothing here limits the
rights those licences give you.


No warranty

moin-server is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. As far as the
law allows, we are not liable for any loss that comes from using it. This
doesn't limit liability for intent or gross negligence, or any right you have
under consumer law that can't be limited.


When this licence ends

This licence ends if you break it. When it ends, stop running moin-server and
delete your copies of it.

Each release of moin-server comes with the licence that applies to that
release. The current one is at https://moin.chat/licenses/moin-server.txt.


Law

Danish law applies to this licence. If you're a consumer, you keep the
protection of the consumer law where you live.