# Copyright and third-party notices

NESH — the New EFI Shell
Copyright (c) 2026 nic-fio

Licensed under the **Apache License 2.0 with the "Commons Clause" License
Condition v1.0**. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).

## In short

| You may | You may not |
|---|---|
| Use NESH for anything, privately or at work, in a company or at home, free of charge | **Sell** NESH, or sell a product or service whose value comes, entirely or substantially, from NESH |
| Copy it and give it to anyone, unchanged, free of charge | Charge a fee for it, or for hosting, support or consulting that is substantially about it |
| Modify it for your own use | Remove the copyright, licence and Commons Clause notices |
| Share your modified version, free of charge, keeping the notices and stating what you changed | |

Using NESH as a tool while doing paid work (repairing a computer, administering
machines in a company) is allowed: what is forbidden is making money **from
NESH itself**.

**Want to sell it, or include it in a product you sell?** That needs a separate,
commercial licence: open an issue at
https://github.com/nic-fio/NG-EFI_SHELL/issues and ask.

Suggested attribution for a modified version:

> Based on NESH — the New EFI Shell by nic-fio
> (https://github.com/nic-fio/NG-EFI_SHELL), Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause.
> Changes were made.

## Third-party components in this repository

| Component | Licence |
|---|---|
| `docs/assets/vendor/mermaid.min.js` (diagrams in the manuals) | MIT, see `docs/assets/vendor/mermaid.LICENSE` |
| `tests/fixtures/edk2/*.efi`, `tests/fixtures/netdrv/*.efi` (test binaries only, not part of NESH) | BSD-2-Clause-Patent, see `tests/fixtures/EDK2-License.txt` and `tests/fixtures/README.md`; `Hash2DxeCrypto.efi` also contains OpenSSL code (Apache-2.0) |

These components keep their own licences: the terms above apply to NESH itself,
not to them.