# Licensing

| Scope | Terms |
| --- | --- |
| Candy Browser first-party source | PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0; see `LICENSE` |
| Third-party code, dependencies, models, filter data, and vendored assets | Their respective licenses and notices remain applicable |
| Copies previously released under MPL 2.0 or another license | This migration does not revoke rights already granted under those licenses |

The repository history was rewritten on 2026-10-25 to offer the first-party
source snapshots under PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. This notice records
the migration date; original commit dates do not imply that PolyForm applied
when those commits were first published. The copyright holder confirmed the
necessary rights or contributor consents for this migration.

PolyForm permits noncommercial purposes and the additional uses expressly
described in its text. It is not an unrestricted open-source license or an
absolute prohibition on every activity involving money. The license text controls.

Existing release binaries, store submissions, promotional media, forks, and
downloaded copies are not changed by a Git history rewrite. Old commit hashes
and signatures cannot identify or authenticate the rewritten commits. Release
provenance and pinned first-party commit references must be reviewed before
publishing new artifacts from this history.

The `foss` build flavor name remains a technical identifier. PolyForm-licensed
versions are not eligible for the official F-Droid repository's free-software
requirement. Existing F-Droid submission instructions describe the earlier
MPL-licensed distribution and must not be used for these rewritten snapshots.