theworker02 · Sep 21, 2026 · Sep 21, 2026
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+# Commercial licensing — stackglass
+
+stackglass is **source-available proprietary software**, not open source.
+
+- **Evaluation:** You may view, clone, and try stackglass for non-production evaluation under [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE).
+- **Everything else:** Production use, redistribution, SaaS/hosted offerings, CI gates for shipping products, and other commercial use require a **paid commercial license**.
+
+This file describes how to inquire about a commercial license. It is **not** legal advice and is **not** itself a binding quote or purchase agreement.
+
+## What a commercial license typically covers
+
+Commercial terms are negotiated case-by-case. Topics often include:
+
+- Production and internal business use
+- Redistribution / OEM embedding (if needed)
+- Hosted / SaaS / multi-tenant use
+- Support or update expectations (if offered)
+- Seat, org, or deployment scope
+
+## How to buy / inquire
+
+1. Open a private channel with GitHub **[@theworker02](https://github.com/theworker02)** (preferred).
+2. Reference **stackglass** and whether you need: production use, redistribution, SaaS, or acquisition / partnership.
+3. Include approximate company size, use case, and timeline.
+
+Optional: open a GitHub Discussion or Issue titled `Commercial license inquiry` with non-sensitive details only — do not paste secrets.
+
+## License transition & enforcement
+
+Read [`LICENSE_TRANSITION_NOTICE.md`](./LICENSE_TRANSITION_NOTICE.md) for the diligence-ready letter on historical open-source copies versus current proprietary terms, and enforcement by the copyright holder and/or any acquirer/successor.
+
+## Contact
+
+**Primary:** GitHub [@theworker02](https://github.com/theworker02)  
+**Repository:** https://github.com/theworker02/stackglass
@@ -1,21 +1,78 @@
-MIT License
-
-Copyright (c) 2026 theworker02
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
-copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-SOFTWARE.
+stackglass Source-Available Evaluation License
+Copyright (c) 2026 theworker02 (https://github.com/theworker02)
+
+IMPORTANT: This is NOT an open-source license. The Software is proprietary
+source-available software. Viewing the source does not grant production,
+redistribution, SaaS, or other commercial rights.
+
+1. Definitions
+
+   "Software" means stackglass and all associated source code, binaries,
+   documentation, and other materials in this repository, excluding
+   third-party components that carry their own licenses.
+
+   "Licensor" means theworker02 (GitHub: https://github.com/theworker02).
+
+   "Evaluation Use" means non-production use solely to review, evaluate,
+   test, or demonstrate the Software for your own internal assessment,
+   including local clones and personal experimentation that is not part of
+   a live product, paid service, or customer-facing system.
+
+2. Evaluation grant
+
+   Subject to these terms, Licensor grants you a limited, revocable,
+   non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to view,
+   clone, and use the Software for Evaluation Use only.
+
+3. Restrictions (commercial license required)
+
+   Except as expressly permitted above, or under a separate written
+   commercial license from Licensor, you may NOT:
+
+   (a) use the Software in production, staging that serves real users or
+       customers, CI/CD gates for shipping products, or any live workload;
+   (b) redistribute, sell, lease, sublicense, or otherwise transfer the
+       Software or derivative works to third parties;
+   (c) offer the Software (or substantially similar functionality) as a
+       hosted, managed, SaaS, or multi-tenant service;
+   (d) use the Software for any commercial purpose, including internal
+       business use beyond Evaluation Use;
+   (e) remove or alter copyright, license, or attribution notices.
+
+4. Commercial licenses
+
+   Production use, redistribution, SaaS, and other commercial use require
+   a paid commercial license. See COMMERCIAL.md or contact Licensor via
+   GitHub @theworker02. This document is not legal advice and does not
+   create a purchase obligation; commercial terms are set in a separate
+   written agreement.
+
+5. Contributions
+
+   By submitting a contribution (pull request, patch, or similar) you
+   assign to Licensor, or irrevocably license to Licensor under terms
+   sufficient for Licensor to relicense and commercialize, all rights in
+   that contribution. Do not contribute code you cannot license this way.
+
+6. Ownership
+
+   The Software is and remains the exclusive property of Licensor.
+   No title or ownership is transferred. Third-party dependencies remain
+   under their respective licenses.
+
+7. No warranty
+
+   THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+   EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+   MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+   IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+   CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY ARISING FROM THE SOFTWARE OR ITS USE.
+
+8. Termination
+
+   This license terminates automatically if you breach these terms.
+   Upon termination you must cease all use and destroy copies obtained
+   under this license, except as required by a separate commercial
+   agreement or applicable law.
+
+For commercial licensing, see COMMERCIAL.md.
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+# License Transition & Enforcement Notice
+
+**Project:** stackglass  
+**Copyright holder:** theworker02 (https://github.com/theworker02)  
+**Effective for current and future distributions of this repository**
+
+This notice is provided for users, evaluators, diligence teams, and prospective licensees or acquirers. It is **not legal advice**.
+
+## Summary
+
+| Period | Terms |
+|--------|--------|
+| **Historical** public distributions that were expressly licensed under the MIT License | Those copies remain governed by the the MIT License terms that accompanied them. This notice does **not** claim those prior open-source grants are revoked, and it does **not** claim that continued use of such historical copies under their original the MIT License terms is illegal. |
+| **Current and future** code in this repository (and builds derived from it after the transition) | **Source-available proprietary** evaluation terms in [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE). Production, redistribution, SaaS, and other commercial use require a paid commercial license — see [`COMMERCIAL.md`](./COMMERCIAL.md). |
+
+## What changed
+
+stackglass previously used the MIT License for public distribution. The project has transitioned to a **source-available proprietary** model so that commercial licenses can be sold and so that intellectual property can be transferred or exclusively licensed in an acquisition or partnership.
+
+- Evaluation / viewing / cloning for non-production assessment: see [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE).
+- Production, redistribution, hosted/SaaS, and other commercial use: require a commercial license — see [`COMMERCIAL.md`](./COMMERCIAL.md).
+
+## Enforcement (post-transition code)
+
+Unauthorized **production**, **redistribution**, **SaaS/hosted**, or other **commercial** use of **post-transition** stackglass code (code distributed under the proprietary [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE), not under a separate commercial agreement) may be enforced by:
+
+1. the current copyright holder (**theworker02**), and/or  
+2. any **acquirer, assignee, or other successor** that obtains copyright or exclusive licensing rights in stackglass.
+
+Enforcement may include (without limitation) requiring a commercial license, seeking injunctive relief, or other remedies available under applicable law. Specific remedies depend on facts, jurisdiction, and the terms of any commercial or acquisition agreement.
+
+## Historical the MIT License copies (accuracy)
+
+If you lawfully received a prior release or commit that was published under the MIT License, the license that shipped with that material continues to apply **to that historical material**. This transition notice:
+
+- does **not** purport to revoke the MIT License grants for those historical copies;
+- does **not** recharacterize use of those historical copies under the MIT License as unlawful solely because of this transition;
+- **does** make clear that **new work** and **current repository contents** are not offered under the MIT License.
+
+Mixing historical open-source trees with current proprietary code does not expand prior open-source rights to post-transition material.
+
+## Acquisition / succession
+
+An acquisition, asset purchase, or exclusive license may assign or transfer copyright and enforcement rights in stackglass (including the right to license commercially and to enforce against unauthorized commercial use of post-transition code) to a successor.
+
+## Contact
+
+Commercial licensing or compliance questions: GitHub [@theworker02](https://github.com/theworker02).  
+See also [`COMMERCIAL.md`](./COMMERCIAL.md).
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+# NOTICE
+
+stackglass
+Copyright 2026 theworker02
+
+Licensing: source-available proprietary evaluation terms — see LICENSE.
+Commercial use requires a separate paid license — see COMMERCIAL.md.
+License transition and enforcement: see LICENSE_TRANSITION_NOTICE.md.
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-<p align="center">
+<p align="center">
   <img src="assets/stackglass-horizontal.svg" alt="Stackglass" width="420"/>
 </p>
 
@@ -11,15 +11,15 @@
 <p align="center">
   <a href="https://github.com/theworker02/stackglass/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img alt="CI" src="https://github.com/theworker02/stackglass/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg"></a>
   <a href="https://github.com/theworker02/stackglass/releases"><img alt="Release" src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/theworker02/stackglass?label=release"></a>
-  <a href="LICENSE"><img alt="License" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-61D6C5"></a>
+  <a href="LICENSE"><img alt="License" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Proprietary%20(source--available)-61D6C5"></a>
   <a href="https://github.com/theworker02/stackglass/actions/workflows/test.yml"><img alt="Tests" src="https://github.com/theworker02/stackglass/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg"></a>
   <a href="apps/docs/mcp/tools.md"><img alt="MCP" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-22%20tools-72A7FF"></a>
   <a href="https://theworker02.github.io/stackglass/"><img alt="Documentation" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-github%20pages-93F1E4"></a>
 </p>
 
 Stackglass is the **observability and verification layer for AI-assisted development**.
 
-Cursor writes and reasons about code. Stackglass gives that agent evidence about state, tests, failures, history, configuration, contracts, and documentation — so it does not have to guess.
+Cursor writes and reasons about code. Stackglass gives that agent evidence about state, tests, failures, history, configuration, contracts, and documentation â€” so it does not have to guess.
 
 It is not another coding assistant.
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Agents constantly struggle with questions like: what changed, what is broken, wh
 Stackglass connects those events. Example:
 
 ```text
-token.ts edited → typecheck fails → two auth tests fail → contract drifts → README example goes stale
+token.ts edited â†’ typecheck fails â†’ two auth tests fail â†’ contract drifts â†’ README example goes stale
 ```
 
 Ask Cursor _what happened?_ and Stackglass answers with evidence.
@@ -274,4 +274,5 @@ See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) and [CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.
 
 ## License
 
-[MIT](LICENSE)
+**Source-available proprietary** — evaluation under [LICENSE](./LICENSE); commercial / production use via [COMMERCIAL.md](./COMMERCIAL.md). See [LICENSE_TRANSITION_NOTICE.md](./LICENSE_TRANSITION_NOTICE.md) and [NOTICE](./NOTICE).
+
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-{
-  "name": "@stackglass/dashboard",
-  "version": "1.1.0",
-  "private": true,
-  "description": "Stackglass local dashboard. Prefer `glass dashboard` which serves live project data.",
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "type": "module",
-  "scripts": {
-    "dev": "vite",
-    "build": "vite build",
-    "preview": "vite preview"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "vite": "^7.1.2"
-  }
+{
+    "name":  "@stackglass/dashboard",
+    "version":  "1.1.0",
+    "private":  true,
+    "description":  "Stackglass local dashboard. Prefer `glass dashboard` which serves live project data.",
+    "license":  "SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE",
+    "type":  "module",
+    "scripts":  {
+                    "dev":  "vite",
+                    "build":  "vite build",
+                    "preview":  "vite preview"
+                },
+    "devDependencies":  {
+                            "vite":  "^7.1.2"
+                        }
 }
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
-{
-  "name": "@stackglass/docs",
-  "version": "1.1.0",
-  "private": true,
-  "description": "Stackglass documentation site.",
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "type": "module",
-  "scripts": {
-    "dev": "vitepress dev",
-    "build": "vitepress build",
-    "preview": "vitepress preview"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "vitepress": "^1.6.4",
-    "vue": "^3.5.18"
-  }
+{
+    "name":  "@stackglass/docs",
+    "version":  "1.1.0",
+    "private":  true,
+    "description":  "Stackglass documentation site.",
+    "license":  "SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE",
+    "type":  "module",
+    "scripts":  {
+                    "dev":  "vitepress dev",
+                    "build":  "vitepress build",
+                    "preview":  "vitepress preview"
+                },
+    "devDependencies":  {
+                            "vitepress":  "^1.6.4",
+                            "vue":  "^3.5.18"
+                        }
 }
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
-{
-  "name": "@stackglass/cli",
-  "version": "1.1.0",
-  "private": true,
-  "description": "glass / stackglass CLI — project observability, GlassLab, and MCP control.",
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "type": "module",
-  "engines": {
-    "node": ">=22.13.0"
-  },
-  "exports": {
-    ".": {
-      "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
-      "import": "./dist/index.js"
-    }
-  },
-  "scripts": {
-    "build": "tsc -p tsconfig.json"
-  },
-  "dependencies": {
-    "@stackglass/core": "1.1.0",
-    "@stackglass/mcp": "1.1.0"
-  }
+{
+    "name":  "@stackglass/cli",
+    "version":  "1.1.0",
+    "private":  true,
+    "description":  "glass / stackglass CLI â€” project observability, GlassLab, and MCP control.",
+    "license":  "SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE",
+    "type":  "module",
+    "engines":  {
+                    "node":  "\u003e=22.13.0"
+                },
+    "exports":  {
+                    ".":  {
+                              "types":  "./dist/index.d.ts",
+                              "import":  "./dist/index.js"
+                          }
+                },
+    "scripts":  {
+                    "build":  "tsc -p tsconfig.json"
+                },
+    "dependencies":  {
+                         "@stackglass/core":  "1.1.0",
+                         "@stackglass/mcp":  "1.1.0"
+                     }
 }