Internal License Grants

This file records dual-licensing grants the copyright holder of Nyx has issued beyond the public GPL-3.0-or-later release.

Nyx ships publicly under GPL-3.0-or-later. That license continues to apply to every public release on GitHub, crates.io, and any other channel. The grants recorded here are separate, private licenses from the copyright holder to specific projects. They do not modify the public GPL terms and they are not transferable to third parties.

The right to issue these grants is preserved in CLA.md Section 4 (Relicensing Right):

[The contributor] grants the Project and any entity that maintains or succeeds it the right to relicense Your Contribution, in whole or in part, under terms other than the Project's current license (currently GPL-3.0-or-later), where necessary to support the long-term sustainability, distribution, and evolution of the Project.

The copyright holder is the sole author of every Contribution to Nyx (verifiable via git log). The CLA covers any future external Contributions. The copyright holder may therefore grant any party, including projects owned by the same copyright holder, a license to use Nyx under terms other than GPL-3.0-or-later, without affecting the public GPL release.

How forks are affected

A third-party fork of nyx-agent that obtains the nyx-agent source under PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0 (or any successor source-available license) does not acquire any rights to Nyx beyond the public GPL-3.0-or-later terms. The internal grant below is project-to-project and non-transferable. Anyone redistributing a binary that statically or dynamically links the nyx crate must comply with the GPL on the nyx portion of the work. GPL is viral copyleft on distribution. Only the copyright holder may issue further dual-licensing grants.

Grant Register

Grant 1: nyx-agent

Field	Value
Grantor	Eli Peter, sole copyright holder of Nyx as of the effective date
Grantee	The nyx-agent project (`nyx-agent` daemon, web UI, and accompanying tooling). Repository: `nyx-agent`
Effective date	2026-05-17
Scope	All Nyx source code, documentation, fixtures, build artefacts, and binaries (the "Licensed Material") in any version released as of the effective date or thereafter, plus any future modifications the Grantor authors or accepts under the CLA
Permitted uses	(a) static or dynamic linking of the Licensed Material into the nyx-agent daemon; (b) modification of the Licensed Material as required for nyx-agent integration; (c) redistribution of the Licensed Material as part of the nyx-agent distribution; (d) sublicensing the Licensed Material to end users of nyx-agent solely under whatever license terms nyx-agent itself is distributed under (currently PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0, or a separately negotiated commercial license)
Restrictions	(a) this grant does not modify, supersede, or revoke the public GPL-3.0-or-later release of Nyx; (b) this grant is non-transferable; only the nyx-agent project, owned by the Grantor, may exercise it; (c) any third-party fork of nyx-agent must obtain Nyx under the public GPL terms unless it negotiates a separate grant from the Grantor; (d) attribution of Nyx authorship must be preserved in any redistribution per the CLA's moral-rights waiver
Duration	Perpetual and irrevocable, subject only to the Grantee maintaining ownership-or-control by the Grantor. If the nyx-agent project is sold, assigned, or otherwise transferred to a third party, this grant terminates and the new owner must negotiate a separate license
Sublicensing of the grant itself	Not permitted. The Grantee may distribute Nyx as part of nyx-agent to end users under nyx-agent's outward terms, but the Grantee may not grant any other project the right to use Nyx outside the public GPL terms
Governing law	Same as Nyx CLA

Adding future grants

New grants follow the same format as Grant 1. Append a new section (### Grant N: <recipient name>) below the existing entries and commit to the Nyx repository. Grants are append-only. Revisions land as superseding entries with their own date, not as edits to the original.

Grants the Grantor anticipates issuing in the future include:

Commercial-license SKU grants to individual customers of nyx-agent that exceed the PolyForm Small Business threshold. These will be issued per-customer under a separate Nyx Commercial License contract.
Stewardship-transition grants if the project is ever handed off (for example, to a foundation). These would be a single grant to the receiving entity.

The Grantor reserves the right to refuse to issue any grant.

What this file is NOT

It is not a redistribution license. Third parties cannot rely on it to use Nyx outside the public GPL terms.
It is not a Contributor License Agreement. CLA.md covers contribution terms separately.
It is not a public-facing license file. The canonical public license for Nyx is LICENSE (GPL-3.0-or-later).

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