DOCKHAND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Finsys Jaroslaw Krochmalski
Last updated: 14 September 2026
HOW TO READ THIS DOCUMENT
The document has two parts:
Part A - Business Source License 1.1. The license under which Dockhand is
published. It applies to everyone who obtains a copy of Dockhand, whether from
GitHub, from a container registry or bundled in the application. The text of the
Business Source License itself is reproduced unchanged; Licensor's choices are
in the "Parameters" section. Within Part A, "this License" means Part A only.
Part B - Dockhand Commercial License Terms. These apply only if you purchase a
Commercial License (currently the SMB or Enterprise tier). They add rights and
obligations on top of Part A and never take away rights you have under Part A.
SUMMARY
- Free for everyone, no license key, any number of users or environments:
development, testing, staging, CI/CD, evaluation, demos, training - including
inside companies.
- Free in production: individuals for personal use (home labs, hobby projects);
non-profit and charitable organizations; schools, universities and
non-commercial research institutions.
- Paid (Commercial License, Part B): production use by or for any business,
public body or other organization not listed above.
- Never permitted without a separate written agreement: offering Dockhand
itself, or a fork of it, as a hosted, managed or SaaS service to third
parties.
- Each released version becomes Apache 2.0 four years after its release.
If this summary and Parts A or B differ, Parts A and B govern.
GENERAL TERMS (THESE APPLY TO EVERYONE)
The following apply to every user of the Licensed Work, whether you use it for
free under Part A or under a Commercial License under Part B.
Data and privacy. The Licensed Work stores all data locally on your
infrastructure and contains no telemetry or analytics. It does not contact
Licensor's servers; any License Key is validated locally. Licensor does not
collect, access or process data stored in your installation. You are solely
responsible for the security, backup and protection of that data. Licensor
processes only the personal data needed to handle Orders, License Keys and
support requests, as described in the Privacy Policy at https://dockhand.pro.
Ownership. The Licensed Work is and remains the property of Licensor. All rights
not expressly granted under Part A or Part B are reserved.
Trademarks. "Dockhand", "Finsys" and the associated logos are trademarks of
Licensor. Nothing in this document grants any trademark rights beyond those
expressly required by Part A.
Feedback. Licensor may use any suggestions, ideas, enhancement requests or other
feedback you provide regarding the Licensed Work, without obligation to you.
Limitation of liability. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law,
Licensor is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or
punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or use,
business interruption, security breaches, data corruption, container management
errors, or third-party actions, arising out of or in connection with the
Licensed Work or your use of or inability to use it, under any theory of
liability, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Nothing here
excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable
law, including liability for damage caused intentionally. This applies to every
user; a Commercial Licensee's liability terms are in B.12.
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PART A - BUSINESS SOURCE LICENSE 1.1
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License text copyright (c) 2017 MariaDB Corporation Ab, All Rights Reserved.
"Business Source License" is a trademark of MariaDB Corporation Ab.
PARAMETERS
Licensor: Finsys Jaroslaw Krochmalski
Licensed Work: Dockhand, meaning all software published by Licensor in the
repository https://github.com/Finsys/dockhand (including the Dockhand server and
its agent and updater components) and the binaries and container images Licensor
builds from that repository. The Licensed Work is (c) 2025-2026 Finsys Jaroslaw
Krochmalski.
Additional Use Grant:
You may make production use of the Licensed Work if, and only for as long as, at
least one of the following applies to you:
(a) Personal use. You are an individual using the Licensed Work for personal,
non-commercial purposes (for example a home lab or a hobby project), and not for
the benefit of any business or other organization.
(b) Non-profit use. You are a non-profit or charitable organization, recognized
as such under the law of your jurisdiction, using the Licensed Work for your own
non-profit activities.
(c) Educational and research use. You are a school, college, university or
non-commercial research institution using the Licensed Work for teaching,
learning or non-commercial research.
(d) Commercial License. You hold a valid Commercial License granted by Licensor
under Part B of the Dockhand License or under another written agreement with
Licensor, and your production use is within the scope and term of that
Commercial License.
(e) Cure period. Your production use is not covered by (a) to (d) and Licensor
has notified you of this in writing: you may continue that production use for
thirty (30) days after the notice, solely in order to obtain a Commercial
License or to stop the production use. If you do either within that period,
Licensor will treat the earlier production use as cured.
Any other production use - including production use by or on behalf of a
company, sole trader or self-employed individual, public body or any other
organization - requires a Commercial License from Licensor.
Use of the Licensed Work by a contractor or service provider acting solely on
behalf of a person or organization covered by (a) to (d), and only for that
person's or organization's own infrastructure, is treated as use by that person
or organization.
"Production use" means using the Licensed Work to manage, monitor or operate
containers, images, stacks, volumes, networks or Docker environments that serve
your customers or end users, that run your live business or organizational
systems, or on whose availability you otherwise rely for your day-to-day
operations. Using the Licensed Work for development, testing, staging, CI/CD,
evaluation, demonstration, training or learning purposes is not production use,
regardless of who you are and regardless of the number of users, installations
or environments involved, and is permitted under this License without a
Commercial License.
Nothing in this Additional Use Grant permits you to offer the Licensed Work, or
a derivative work of the Licensed Work, to third parties as a hosted service,
managed service or software-as-a-service offering whose primary value to users
is Docker container management functionality substantially similar to the
Licensed Work. Such an offering requires a separate written agreement with
Licensor.
Eligibility, enforcement and License Keys. The rights in the Additional Use
Grant depend on your eligibility, and Enterprise Features are gated by a License
Key. Accordingly:
(i) You must not misrepresent your eligibility for any of the categories in the
Additional Use Grant (for example, claiming personal, non-profit or educational
use that does not genuinely apply to you).
(ii) You must not share, publish or distribute a License Key, nor circumvent or
attempt to circumvent any license-enforcement mechanism (for example, to enable
Enterprise Features without a valid Commercial License).
(iii) Licensor may request reasonable verification of your eligibility for
personal, non-profit or educational use, and you will provide reasonable
documentation on request. This does not permit Licensor to access data stored in
your installation (see the General terms above).
Change Date: Four years from the date on which a given version of the Licensed
Work is first publicly distributed by Licensor.
Change License: Apache License, Version 2.0
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.
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for each version of the Licensed Work and the Change Date may vary for each
version of the Licensed Work released by Licensor.
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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
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or its affiliates (provided that you may use a trademark or logo of Licensor as
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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
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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.
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 licensing inquiries, commercial licensing or enterprise features, email
enterprise@dockhand.pro
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PART B - DOCKHAND COMMERCIAL LICENSE TERMS
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B.1 SCOPE AND RELATIONSHIP TO PART A
1. Part B applies between Finsys Jaroslaw Krochmalski ("Licensor", "Finsys") and
the person or entity named in an Order ("Licensee", "you") from the earlier of:
(a) Licensee placing an Order, or (b) Licensee activating a License Key.
2. Part B supplements Part A. Part A continues to apply to the Licensed Work.
Nothing in Part B limits, conditions or withdraws any right granted to you under
Part A.
3. The Order, Part B and Part A together form the entire agreement regarding the
Commercial License and supersede any prior or contemporaneous agreement on that
subject. In case of conflict, the Order prevails over Part B as to tier, Scope,
fees and License Term; Part B prevails over the Order in all other respects; and
Part A always prevails as to the rights it grants.
4. The Commercial License is intended for businesses, public bodies and other
organizations. Licensor does not offer it to consumers.
B.2 DEFINITIONS
"Commercial License" means the license granted under B.3, in the tier stated in
the Order. Licensor currently offers the "SMB" and "Enterprise" tiers. Tiers,
prices, included features and Scope limits are described at https://dockhand.pro
and in the Order.
"Order" means the order confirmation, invoice, quote accepted by Licensee,
purchase order accepted by Licensor, or other document recording Licensee's
purchase, tier, Scope and License Term.
"License Key" means the cryptographic key issued by Licensor that enables
Enterprise Features and identifies a Commercial License.
"Enterprise Features" means the features of the Licensed Work that are enabled
with a License Key. At the date of these terms they include LDAP/Active
Directory integration, role-based access control with environment scoping, and
audit logging. The current list is maintained at https://dockhand.pro. The
source code of the Enterprise Features is published in the Dockhand source
repository and is part of the Licensed Work under Part A.
"License Term" means the subscription period stated in the Order or, if none is
stated, twelve (12) months from activation of the License Key.
"Scope" means the limits stated in the Order and in the tier description, such
as the number of installations, environments or users.
"Licensed Work" and "production use" have the meanings given in Part A.
B.3 GRANT
1. For the License Term, subject to payment of the fees in the Order and to Part
B, Licensor grants Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable (except under B.7)
license to:
(a) make production use of the Licensed Work, within the Scope;
(b) receive a License Key and use the Enterprise Features included in
Licensee's tier, within the Scope; and
(c) receive the support included in Licensee's tier (B.8).
2. Licensee's employees and contractors, and any affiliates named in the Order,
may exercise these rights on Licensee's behalf and for Licensee's own
infrastructure. Licensee is responsible for their compliance with Part A and
Part B.
B.4 WHAT THE COMMERCIAL LICENSE DOES NOT INCLUDE
1. The Commercial License does not permit Licensee to:
(a) offer the Licensed Work or the Enterprise Features to third parties as a
hosted service, managed service or software-as-a-service offering (see
the Additional Use Grant in Part A); this requires a separate written
agreement with Licensor;
(b) share, publish, sublicense, rent, resell or otherwise make a License Key
available to anyone outside the Scope;
(c) make production use of the Licensed Work, or use Enterprise Features,
outside the Scope or after the end of the License Term.
2. Licensee's rights in the Licensed Work under Part A - including the rights to
copy, modify, create derivative works and redistribute it - are unaffected by
Part B.
B.5 TERM, RENEWAL AND EXPIRY
1. The License Term starts on the date stated in the Order or, if none is
stated, on activation of the License Key.
2. Renewal is not automatic. To keep the Commercial License, Licensee must
purchase a renewal before the License Term ends.
3. When the License Term ends, or the Commercial License is terminated:
(a) Enterprise Features are disabled automatically;
(b) the Licensed Work continues to function with its remaining features, and
all data, configuration and settings are preserved;
(c) Part A alone governs any further use. A Licensee that is not covered by
clauses (a) to (c) of the Additional Use Grant must therefore renew or
stop production use. The thirty (30) day cure period in the Additional
Use Grant applies after Licensor's written notice.
B.6 FEES AND TAXES
Fees are as stated in the Order, payable as set out in the Order or invoice, and
exclusive of VAT and other applicable taxes, which Licensee pays in addition.
Fees are non-refundable except where required by applicable law or agreed by
Licensor in writing.
B.7 TRANSFER
1. Reassignment. Licensee may move a Commercial License to another installation
within its organization (for example on hardware replacement or migration),
provided the License Key is removed from the previous installation and the
number of active installations stays within the Scope.
2. Business transfers. Licensee may transfer the Commercial License to its legal
successor in a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of all or
substantially all of its assets, by written notice to enterprise@dockhand.pro
within thirty (30) days of the transfer, stating the successor's legal name and
contact details and confirming that the successor accepts Part A and Part B.
3. No other transfer, resale or sublicensing of a Commercial License or License
Key is permitted without Licensor's prior written consent.
B.8 SUPPORT
1. Licensor provides the support level included in Licensee's tier on a
commercially reasonable, best-effort basis, through enterprise@dockhand.pro.
2. Unless separately agreed in writing, Licensor does not guarantee response or
resolution times, the availability of updates, patches or new versions, or
compatibility with future operating systems, Docker versions or other software,
and no service level agreement applies.
B.9 DATA AND PRIVACY
The Licensed Work stores all data locally on Licensee's infrastructure and
contains no telemetry or analytics. License Keys are validated locally; the
Licensed Work does not contact Licensor's servers. Licensor does not collect,
access or process data stored in Licensee's installation. Licensee is solely
responsible for the security, backup and protection of that data. Licensor
processes the personal data needed to handle Orders, License Keys and support
requests as described in the Privacy Policy at https://dockhand.pro.
B.10 OWNERSHIP, TRADEMARKS AND FEEDBACK
1. The Licensed Work, including the Enterprise Features, is and remains the
property of Licensor. All rights not expressly granted in Part A or Part B are
reserved.
2. "Dockhand", "Finsys" and the associated logos are trademarks of Licensor.
Neither Part A nor Part B grants any trademark rights beyond those expressly
required by Part A.
3. Licensor may use any feedback, suggestions or enhancement requests Licensee
provides, without obligation to Licensee.
B.11 WARRANTY DISCLAIMER
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE LICENSED WORK, INCLUDING
THE ENTERPRISE FEATURES, IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. LICENSOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT
THE LICENSED WORK WILL MEET LICENSEE'S REQUIREMENTS, BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY,
SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, THAT ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE LICENSED WORK
WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH LICENSEE'S HARDWARE, SOFTWARE OR NETWORK ENVIRONMENT.
THE STATUTORY WARRANTY FOR DEFECTS (RĘKOJMIA) IS EXCLUDED TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW.
LICENSEE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE LICENSED WORK IS USED TO MANAGE DOCKER CONTAINERS
AND RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE, AND THAT DEFECTS OR IMPROPER USE MAY RESULT IN DATA
LOSS, DOWNTIME, SYSTEM DAMAGE OR SECURITY INCIDENTS. LICENSEE ASSUMES THAT RISK.
B.12 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
1. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, LICENSOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR
ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS
OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR USE, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, SECURITY
BREACHES, DATA CORRUPTION, CONTAINER MANAGEMENT ERRORS, THIRD-PARTY ACTIONS OR
INTEGRATIONS, OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH PART A, PART B OR THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE LICENSED
WORK, UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.
2. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, LICENSOR'S TOTAL AGGREGATE
LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH PART A AND PART B IS LIMITED TO
THE FEES PAID BY LICENSEE UNDER THE ORDER IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE
EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
3. Nothing in Part B excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or
limited under applicable law, including liability for damage caused
intentionally.
4. These limitations are an essential basis of the bargain between Licensee and
Licensor; Licensor would not offer the Commercial License without them.
B.13 TERMINATION
1. Licensor may terminate the Commercial License by written notice if Licensee
materially breaches Part A or Part B and, where the breach can be cured, fails to
cure it within thirty (30) days of written notice.
2. Licensee may stop using the Commercial License at any time. Fees already paid
are not refunded.
3. On termination, B.5(3) applies. B.6 and B.10 to B.16 survive termination or
expiry.
B.14 GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTES
Part B, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with it, is governed by
the laws of Poland, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on
Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The courts of Warsaw, Poland have
exclusive jurisdiction. Part B is drafted in English; in case of discrepancy
with any translation, the English text prevails.
B.15 GENERAL
1. Changes. Licensor may publish updated Commercial License Terms. Updated terms
apply to Orders placed and renewals purchased after publication. The terms in
force when an Order is placed govern that License Term.
2. Assignment. Licensee may assign Part B only as permitted in B.7. Licensor may
assign Part B to a successor of the Dockhand business on written notice.
3. Severability. If any provision of Part B is unenforceable, it is reformed
only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining
provisions remain in force.
4. Waiver. Licensor's failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
5. Independent contractors. Nothing in Part B creates a partnership, joint
venture, agency or employment relationship.
6. Export. Licensee will comply with applicable export and import laws in
connection with its use of the Licensed Work.
7. Notices. Notices to Licensor go to enterprise@dockhand.pro; notices to
Licensee go to the contact details in the Order.
B.16 LICENSOR
Finsys Jaroslaw Krochmalski
ul. Borki 6, 05-119 Jozefow, Poland
VAT ID: PL7121835977 · REGON: 061576391
enterprise@dockhand.pro · https://dockhand.pro
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THIRD-PARTY COMPONENTS
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The Licensed Work incorporates open source components under their own licenses,
including SvelteKit (MIT), Svelte (MIT), Dockerode (Apache 2.0), xterm.js (MIT),
Drizzle ORM (Apache 2.0), Tailwind CSS (MIT), shadcn-svelte (MIT) and Lucide
Icons (ISC). The full list is in the package manifest files. Your use of those
components is governed by their respective licenses; nothing in Part A or Part B
limits your rights under them.
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