--- schema: "holm.license-document/v1" license_id: "holm-usage-license-v1" license_version: "1.0" status: "effective" created_at: "2026-09-21" updated_at: "2026-10-06" effective_at: "2026-10-06" first_covered_binary_version: "v0.223.0" canonical_url: "https://license.holmhq.com/v1/" source_url: "https://license.holmhq.com/v1.md" acknowledgement: required: true reaccept_on: "legal_text_digest_change" review: basis: "owner_approved_legal_review_deferred" owner_approved_at: "2026-10-06" qualified_legal_review_at: null legal_text_digest: algorithm: "sha256" scope: "body-after-yaml-frontmatter" canonicalization: "utf8-lf-v1" value: "sha256:898163f1d2592ae95c7b722b8b89c9de371bbfe22f96259b030049cd6b250d3e" supersedes: - legal_text_digest: "sha256:43f2b163c75fbe4a104bc4abde21cc036ef439c433e7cda87f5e38c5c5ee9687" effective_at: "2026-10-03" first_covered_binary_version: "v0.221.0" --- # Holm Usage License Agreement 1.0 (HULA) - **License ID:** `holm-usage-license-v1` - **Immutable URL:** `https://license.holmhq.com/v1/` ## 1. Agreement and authority This License applies only to a Covered Binary that identifies this License ID and the immutable hash of this License text. You accept this License by completing the acknowledgement presented by a Covered Binary or by using a Covered Binary after having a reasonable opportunity to review this License. If You act for an organization, You represent that You have authority to accept this License for that organization. If You do not agree, do not use the Covered Binary. An ordinary Holm update that identifies the same License ID and text hash does not require another acknowledgement. Before using an update that identifies a new License ID or a different legal-text hash, You must separately accept that new license. An earlier Covered Binary remains governed by the license version that it identifies. ## 2. Definitions **Application** means a product or service built with or operated on Holm whose primary value is not access to Holm itself. **Covered Binary** means an official, unmodified object-code build of Holm that was authorized through Holm's signed official release channel and expressly identifies this License ID and legal-text hash. Source code is not a Covered Binary. **License ID** means the stable identifier of a license version. The License ID and legal-text hash together identify its exact operative text; any change to that text requires a new legal-text hash and a new acknowledgement. **Licensor** means the owner of copyright in the Covered Binary who authorized its publication through Holm's signed official release channel, or its successor under Section 12. **Managed Holm Service** means a product or service offered to the public or to customers generally, including in preview, in beta, or by invitation, whose primary purpose is to give customers Holm itself, hosted, managed, or provisioned for them, rather than access to an Application. It includes pre-configured Holm instances, Holm instances connected to external services, and bundles of pre-installed Applications offered that way, whether they run in Your environment or the customer's. Client work under Section 5 is not a Managed Holm Service. **You** means the individual accepting this License or the organization for which that individual accepts it. ## 3. License grant Subject to this License, the Licensor grants You a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, royalty-free license to: 1. install and execute Covered Binaries; 2. make reasonable internal, backup, and disaster-recovery copies; 3. use Covered Binaries for personal, internal, and commercial work; 4. develop, test, operate, host, and support Applications; and 5. copy and redistribute exact, unmodified copies of a Covered Binary or its official release archive, including inside machine images, container images, and software packages, as long as every copyright, attribution, and license notice stays intact and You do not charge for the Covered Binary itself. No fee, registration, license key, or separate grant is required. This License does not limit instances, users, seats, Applications, projects, environments, or internal copies, and does not depend on the size or revenue of You or Your organization. Employees and contractors may act on Your behalf within this License. You remain responsible for their compliance with it. ## 4. One-time acknowledgement; no technical entitlement A Covered Binary may request one explicit acknowledgement of this License, identified by its License ID and legal-text hash, before first substantive use. It may store the License ID, legal-text hash, Holm version, acknowledgement time, and acknowledgement method locally in the Holm instance. The acknowledgement is notice and assent, not an entitlement mechanism. The Covered Binary does not use revenue checks, license keys, paid feature restrictions, runtime expiry, usage reporting, or a phone-home licensing check to determine its capabilities. The acknowledgement record is not transmitted unless You choose to provide it. ## 5. Applications, client work, and managed Holm You may build, operate, host, and sell Applications that use Holm. Applications are Yours: this License claims no rights in them, their code, or their data, and does not limit how You license, sell, or distribute them. People who use an Application need no Holm license. Their relationship is with whoever operates the Application, not with the Licensor. You may build Applications for clients and, as professional services, install, configure, host, operate, upgrade, monitor, back up, and administer Holm instances for them, charging whatever You choose for Your work. Each client is the licensee of its Holm instances and must accept this License for them; You may accept it for a client only with that client's authority. When You deliver Holm to a client, You must tell the client that Holm is licensed separately by the Licensor and that this License is between the client and the Licensor. Publishing documentation, guides, examples, or scripts, templates, and images that install Holm without the pre-configuration described in Section 2 is not a Managed Holm Service. This License does not permit You to offer a Managed Holm Service, whether under the Holm name or another name. That right remains reserved to the Licensor. Applications and client work must not be a means of supplying a Managed Holm Service. ## 6. Restrictions Except where applicable law does not allow the restriction, You may not: 1. sell, sublicense, or lease a Covered Binary, or distribute it except as Section 3 allows; 2. modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or create derivative works from a Covered Binary; 3. remove or obscure copyright, trademark, attribution, or license notices; 4. use a Covered Binary to offer a Managed Holm Service; 5. present Holm, or a product whose primary value is Holm itself, as Your own work or under another name, or claim to have created Holm; or 6. use a Covered Binary in violation of applicable law. ## 7. Ownership, patents, and third-party components The Licensor and its licensors retain all rights not expressly granted. This License grants object-code rights only. It grants no source-code or trademark rights and makes no promise that a Covered Binary will later become open source. You may say truthfully that Your Applications or services use, support, or are built on Holm. You may not use the Holm name or logo in a way that suggests You are the Licensor, an official Holm source, or endorsed by the Licensor, including in the name of a product, company, or domain. To the extent the Licensor can grant them, the Licensor grants You a patent license for claims necessarily infringed solely by permitted use of a Covered Binary. Components identified as third-party software remain governed by their own notices and license terms. If You give the Licensor suggestions or feedback about Holm, the Licensor may use them freely without obligation to You. ## 8. License versions and release coupling The License ID and legal-text hash embedded in a Covered Binary govern that binary permanently. The Licensor may publish a different license for later builds, but later terms do not retroactively change the license for an earlier build. You are never required to upgrade. The Licensor need not keep any build available for download. Every official Holm build released before Holm 1.0 (any version below 1.0.0) is licensed royalty-free to everyone: its license requires no fee or payment and sets no limit based on the size or revenue of the licensee. This commitment does not extend to Holm 1.0 or later builds. The current license is presented at `https://license.holmhq.com/`. Each effective license version is also published at an immutable versioned address, identifies its first covered Holm build and effective date, and is recorded in the signed release manifest. After this text's effective date, any change to it will be published as a new license version with its own License ID and versioned address. Presentation and accessibility styling may change without changing the canonical legal text or its hash. ## 9. Support This License does not promise support, maintenance, updates, service levels, or a particular release schedule. ## 10. Term and termination This License continues for as long as You comply with it. If You materially breach this License, the Licensor may end Your rights by notice. If the breach can be corrected, Your rights end only if You do not correct it within 60 days after receiving that notice. When Your rights end, You must stop using Covered Binaries and delete Your copies, except for one archival copy kept only for legal or compliance records. Sections 6, 7, 11, and 12 survive termination. ## 11. Pre-1.0 software, no warranty, and limited liability Holm is pre-1.0 software and is not expected to work flawlessly. Covered Binaries may fail, lose, or corrupt data. You are solely responsible for Your data, backups, testing, security, and use. The Licensor has no obligation to support, maintain, fix, restore, or recover anything. To the maximum extent allowed by law, Covered Binaries are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties or conditions of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. You are responsible for testing, security, backups, and safe operation. To the maximum extent allowed by law, the Licensor has no liability arising from this License or any Covered Binary, including for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profit, revenue, data, goodwill, or business interruption. If any part of that exclusion is held unenforceable, the Licensor's total liability arising from this License and all Covered Binaries will not exceed USD 100. Nothing excludes liability that applicable law does not allow to be excluded or limited. ## 12. General If part of this License is unenforceable, the remaining parts remain in effect. A failure to enforce a term is not a waiver. This License is the complete agreement about the Covered Binary and replaces prior discussions about it. Statements in documentation, forums, social media, issue trackers, or other informal channels do not modify this License, waive any of its terms, or grant rights. Terms may be waived or additional rights granted only by a written notice the Licensor sends from `license@holmhq.com` or by a notice the Licensor publishes at `https://license.holmhq.com/`. The Licensor may transfer its role under this License to a person or entity authorized to grant the rights in it, by a notice published at `https://license.holmhq.com/`. Your rights under this License continue unchanged. Questions about licensing may be sent to `license@holmhq.com`.