# License Change Notice ## Summary Effective March 19, 2026, Loki Mode transitioned from the MIT License to the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL 1.1). The Licensed Work is owned by Autonomi, Inc. (autonomi.dev). ## What this means **If you are using Loki Mode for personal projects, learning, research, or internal tooling:** Nothing changes for you. You can continue using, modifying, and redistributing Loki Mode freely. **If you are building a competing commercial product or service:** You need a commercial license. Contact founder@autonomi.dev. ## What counts as "competing" Offering a product or service to third parties that provides substantially the same or similar functionality as Loki Mode, including multi-agent AI development orchestration, autonomous software development services, AI code generation or deployment services that incorporate or replicate Loki Mode's orchestration, review, verification, or agent coordination systems, or products that substantially replicate core architectural patterns such as the RARV cycle, Completion Council, or swarm coordination model. ## What does NOT require a commercial license - Using Loki Mode to build your own software products - Internal company use where Loki Mode is a tool, not the product - Academic, educational, and research use - Personal and non-commercial use - Evaluation and testing in non-production environments - Contributing improvements back under a signed CLA ## Contributing All external contributions require a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA). This ensures Autonomi maintains the rights needed to license and distribute the Licensed Work, including in commercial contexts. Contributions submitted without a signed CLA may be removed from the codebase. ## Intellectual Property Loki Mode embodies proprietary methodologies and architectural patterns developed by Autonomi, including the RARV execution cycle, the Completion Council consensus review system, context persistence for long-running autonomous sessions, multi-provider orchestration protocols, and swarm-based agent coordination. These are protected under this License regardless of whether they are used via the code directly or reimplemented independently from the documentation. ## Open Source Conversion On March 19, 2030 (or four years from the release date of each version, whichever comes first), each version automatically converts to the Apache License 2.0. ## Contact founder@autonomi.dev for commercial licensing, partnership inquiries, or questions about permitted use.