Business Source License 1.1
Source-available. Free for non-competing use. Converts to Apache 2.0 after four years.
Plain English
- ✓Read the code. The full source is available. Evaluate it, audit it, learn from it.
- ✓Run it. Use TRW in your own projects, workflows, and development processes. No restrictions.
- ✓Modify it. Fork it, extend it, adapt it for your needs. Build on top of it.
- ×Don't resell it as a competing product. The only restriction: you cannot offer a commercial product that competes with TRW's core functionality.
- ✓It becomes Apache 2.0. On March 21, 2030, the license automatically converts to Apache 2.0 — fully open source, no restrictions.
This summary is for convenience only and is not legally binding. The full terms below govern your use.
License Parameters
You may use the Licensed Work for any purpose other than offering a commercial product or service that competes with the Licensed Work.
“Compete” means providing a substantially similar product or service that replaces or substitutes for the Licensed Work's core functionality: persistent memory with scoring and decay, sprint orchestration, requirements lifecycle management, phase gates, or agent team coordination for AI coding agents.
Always Permitted
- ✓Using TRW in your own software development projects
- ✓Integrating TRW into your development workflow
- ✓Building applications, tools, or services that use TRW internally
- ✓Modifying TRW for your own non-competing use
- ✓Evaluating, testing, and benchmarking TRW
Terms
The Licensor hereby grants you the right to copy, modify, create derivative works, redistribute, and make non-production use of the Licensed Work. The Licensor may make an Additional Use Grant, above, permitting limited production use.
Effective on the Change Date, or the fourth anniversary of the first publicly available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed Work under this License, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby grants you rights under the terms of the Change License, and the rights granted in the paragraph above terminate.
If your use of the Licensed Work does not comply with the requirements currently in effect as described in this License, you must purchase a commercial license from the Licensor, its affiliated entities, or authorized resellers, or you must refrain from using the Licensed Work.
Conditions
All copies of the Licensed Work and derivative works thereof must include the following notice:
Copyright (c) 2026 Tyler Wall.
Use of this software is governed by the Business Source License included in the LICENSE file and at mariadb.com/bsl11.
Change Date: March 21, 2030
Change License: Apache License, Version 2.0
Limitation of Liability
The Licensed Work is provided “as is,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will the Licensor be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages arising from the use of the Licensed Work.
Your Data
You retain full ownership of all data, code, PRDs, learnings, and artifacts you generate while using TRW. The license applies only to the TRW software itself.
TRW includes an optional telemetry system that is disabled by default. Nothing leaves your machine unless you opt in. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Who Else Uses BSL 1.1?
The Business Source License was created by MariaDB and is used by companies including Sentry, CockroachDB, HashiCorp, and MariaDB. It balances source transparency with sustainable development — protecting the ability to build full-time while giving users complete visibility into the code they depend on.
Commercial Licensing
If your use case exceeds the Additional Use Grant before the Change Date, a commercial license is required. Contact us:
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