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title: License
order: 7.4
icon: phosphor-duotone:scroll
summary: BxSites is free and open source, licensed under Apache 2.0.
tags: [about, license]
---

# License

BxSites is free and open source software, released under the
**Apache License, Version 2.0**.

```text title="Copyright notice"
Copyright [2024] [Ortus Solutions, Corp]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
```

!!! tip "What this means, in short"
    - You **can** use, modify, and distribute BxSites, including in
      commercial and closed-source projects.
    - You **must** keep the copyright and license notice, and clearly mark
      any files you changed.
    - It comes with **no warranty** - use it as-is, at your own risk.

    This isn't legal advice - read the full license text below for the
    actual terms.

::: cards
::: card title="Full license text" icon="phosphor-duotone:file-text" href="https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/bx-sites/blob/development/LICENSE"
The complete Apache License, Version 2.0 text, as shipped in this
repository's `LICENSE` file.
:::
::: card title="Apache License 2.0 (official)" icon="phosphor-duotone:link" href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0"
The canonical license text, published by the Apache Software Foundation.
:::
:::

## Third-party dependencies

BxSites depends on a handful of other BoxLang modules -
[bx-markdown](https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/bx-markdown),
[bx-esapi](https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/bx-esapi),
[bx-yaml](https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/bx-yaml), and
[bx-image](https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/bx-image) - along with the
vendored client-side libraries each built-in theme bundles (Bootstrap,
highlight.js, Alpine.js, lunr.js, and optionally Mermaid). Each carries its
own open-source license; see that project's own repository for details.