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 All code in _this_ repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3), the full text of which can be found at [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html).
 
+If you want to make modifications to the code in _this_ repository and you want to keep those modifications proprietary, then you must get a commercial license from BigchainDB GmbH.
+
 All short code snippets embedded in the official BigchainDB _documentation_ are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, the full text of which can be found at [http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
 
 For the licenses on all other BigchainDB-related code, see the LICENSE file in the associated repository.