License
Church freeware
This is a draft. It is not legal advice. You may use this software if you are a house of worship or a parachurch group. You may not sell it or rent it as a paid host.
smallchurch CHMS Church Freeware License
DRAFT. Not legal advice. Not an OSI open-source license.
Copyright (c) 2026 Garrison Griffith / smallchurch.work
This draft may be replaced. Until a later version says otherwise, these
terms apply.
1. Who may use this software
You may use, copy, modify, and run this software on computers and
accounts you control if you are:
(a) a house of worship (a congregation that gathers for worship,
including a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or similar), or
(b) a parachurch group (a nonprofit ministry that exists to serve
houses of worship or their members, including missions, campus
ministry, seminaries, camps, and similar).
You may give a copy to another house of worship or parachurch group if
you include this license and do not charge for the software itself.
2. What you may not do
You may not:
(a) sell this software, or sell a modified version of it;
(b) rent it as a paid hosted service (charging anyone to log into a
copy you run for them);
(c) use it if you are not a house of worship or a parachurch group,
including for-profit vendors and commercial software companies.
3. Source
You may read and change the source. If you give a modified copy to
another permitted organization, you must include this license and a
note that you changed it.
4. Name
"smallchurch CHMS" and "smallchurch.work" are not a grant of trademark.
Do not call a paid product by those names.
5. 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, 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.