Authors and Contributors

Original Author

Elxan Hüseynov (@BMBOMICH) — creator and maintainer of PSVL.

Drafting Assistance

PSVL was drafted with the assistance of Claude by Anthropic, an AI writing assistant, combining knowledge of existing source-available licenses, cybersecurity threat modeling, and international legal best practices. All editorial decisions and final wording were made by the author.

Contributors

Accepted contributors are credited in CHANGELOG.md.

Contributors who consent to public recognition may also be listed here in future. To be added, mention this in your Pull Request description.

Inspirations

PSVL draws structural inspiration from several existing licenses, without copying their text:

• Business Source License (BUSL) 1.1 — for the source-available conceptual model
• Server Side Public License (SSPL) — for service-provider obligations
• Elastic License 2.0 — for limited-grant patterns
• PolyForm licenses — for use-case-restricted grants
• Contributor Covenant — for the Code of Conduct

PSVL is otherwise an independent work.