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Lamco RDP Server License

Business Source License 1.1 — also available on GitHub

Business Source License 1.1

Parameters

Licensor Lamco Development
Licensed Work lamco-rdp-server
The Licensed Work is © 2025-2026 Lamco Development
Additional Use Grant

You may make production use of the Licensed Work, provided Your use does not include a Competitive Use (as defined below).

In addition, You may make production use of the Licensed Work without purchasing a commercial license if any of the following apply:

  1. You are a non-profit organization.
  2. Your use is limited to a single server instance.
  3. Your use is of a Community Edition of the Licensed Work. A “Community Edition” is any binary distribution of the Licensed Work that is published by the Licensor and designated as “Community Edition” in the documentation accompanying the distribution.

All other production use requires a commercial license from Lamco Development. Visit https://lamco.ai for pricing, or contact office@lamco.io.

A “Competitive Use” means using the Licensed Work to create, offer, host, or distribute a Competitive Product. A “Competitive Product” is any product or service made available to third parties that provides RDP server, remote desktop, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), or remote access functionality where such functionality is substantially derived from the Licensed Work.

The following are not Competitive Uses:

  1. Using the Licensed Work to provide managed services, cloud hosting, or IT infrastructure where the Licensed Work is a tool used in delivering those services rather than the basis of a competing product.
  2. Using the Licensed Work for internal purposes within Your organization, including use by Your employees, contractors, and affiliates under common control.
  3. Using the Licensed Work for non-commercial education or research.
  4. Redistributing the Licensed Work in unmodified source form with this License intact.
Change Date December 31, 2028
Change License Apache License 2.0

Notice

The Business Source License (this document, or the "License") is not an Open Source license. However, the Licensed Work will eventually be made available under an Open Source License, as stated in this License.

For information about alternative licensing arrangements for the Licensed Work, please visit https://lamco.ai or contact office@lamco.io.


License text copyright © 2017 MariaDB Corporation Ab, All Rights Reserved. "Business Source License" is a trademark of MariaDB Corporation Ab.


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.

All copies of the original and modified Licensed Work, and derivative works of the Licensed Work, are subject to this License. This License applies separately for each version of the Licensed Work and the Change Date may vary for each version of the Licensed Work released by Licensor.

You must conspicuously display this License on each original or modified copy of the Licensed Work. If you receive the Licensed Work in original or modified form from a third party, the terms and conditions set forth in this License apply to your use of that work.

Any use of the Licensed Work in violation of this License will automatically terminate your rights under this License for the current and all other versions of the Licensed Work.

This License does not grant you any right in any trademark or logo of Licensor or its affiliates (provided that you may use a trademark or logo of Licensor as expressly required by this License).

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE LICENSED WORK IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. LICENSOR HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND TITLE.

MariaDB hereby grants you permission to use this License's text to license your works, and to refer to it using the trademark "Business Source License", as long as you comply with the Covenants of Licensor below.


Covenants of Licensor

In consideration of the right to use this License's text and the "Business Source License" name and trademark, Licensor covenants to MariaDB, and to all other recipients of the licensed work to be provided by Licensor:

  1. To specify as the Change License the GPL Version 2.0 or any later version, or a license that is compatible with GPL Version 2.0 or a later version, where "compatible" means that software provided under the Change License can be included in a program with software provided under GPL Version 2.0 or a later version. Licensor may specify additional Change Licenses without limitation.
  2. To either: (a) specify an additional grant of rights to use that does not impose any additional restriction on the right granted in this License, as the Additional Use Grant; or (b) insert the text "None".
  3. To specify a Change Date.
  4. Not to modify this License in any other way.

Commercial License Terms

Organizations that do not qualify for the Additional Use Grant above must purchase a commercial license. The following terms apply to all commercial licenses.

License Tiers

Tier Cost Server Limit Applies To
Community Edition Free Unlimited Flatpak, Snap
Single Instance Free 1 Any distribution
Non-profit Free Unlimited Any distribution
Personal $4.99/mo or $49/yr 1 Native/distro
Team $149/yr Up to 5 Native/distro
Business $499/yr Up to 25 Native/distro
Corporate $1,499/yr Up to 100 Native/distro
Enterprise Custom Unlimited Native/distro

"Server" means each installation of Lamco RDP Server on a distinct machine or virtual machine used in production. Development, testing, and staging environments are excluded.

Community Edition

A “Community Edition” is any binary distribution of the Licensed Work that is published by the Licensor and designated as “Community Edition” in the documentation accompanying the distribution. Currently designated: Flatpak and Snap distributions.

Community Edition distributions are free to use under the Additional Use Grant — including for commercial purposes. The Competitive Use restriction still applies.

Non-Competitive Use Restriction

All use of the Licensed Work — whether under the free Additional Use Grant or a commercial license — is subject to the following restriction:

You may not use the Licensed Work to create, offer, or distribute a competing RDP server product, VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) solution, or remote access product.

Permitted use includes managed services, cloud hosting, internal IT infrastructure, and any deployment where the Licensed Work serves as a tool rather than the basis of a competing product.

Open Source Conversion

On December 31, 2028 (the Change Date), the Licensed Work automatically converts to the Apache License 2.0. After this date:

  • No commercial license is required by anyone
  • The non-competitive use restriction no longer applies
  • The software simply becomes free for everyone

What's Included

All commercial licenses include:

  • Full feature access (AVC420, AVC444, hardware acceleration, all premium features)
  • All software updates during the license period
  • Priority email support at office@lamco.io

To purchase a commercial license or discuss custom arrangements, contact office@lamco.io or visit our pricing page.