Software licence

Your subscription grants a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and run one copy of the protection core inside the infrastructure of the legal entity named on your contract, for the duration of your subscription term. Ownership of the code, its design and everything in it stays with Splitforth. Nothing here transfers ownership of anything.

• Install and run it inside your own systems, on as many of your own servers as your plan covers.
• Read it. It is delivered as readable source deliberately, so your own security review can verify it.
• Configure it, and write your own code that calls it.
• Keep backups of your own installation as part of your normal backup routine.

• Copying, publishing, distributing, selling, sublicensing or sharing the code with anyone outside your company.
• Using it, or anything derived from it, to build or operate a competing security product or service.
• Running it for a third party, as a service or otherwise, or moving it to another legal entity without our written consent.
• Removing, altering or obscuring licence notices, build references or integrity data in the delivered files.
• Reverse engineering it for the purpose of reproducing its design elsewhere.

These obligations survive the end of your subscription. Cancelling does not release you from them; it only ends your right to run the code, which must then be removed from your systems.

Every copy we issue is built individually for the licensee who receives it and carries technical measures that allow us to establish which licensed copy any given code originated from. We do not describe how those measures work, and they are deliberately not documented anywhere a customer or the public can read them.

They are inert. They do not call home, they do not report anything to us, they do not run at all, and they are not connected to the signals your installation sends. They exist only so that if our code appears somewhere it was never licensed to be, we can prove where it came from. You agree that evidence produced by those measures may be relied upon in any dispute about the origin of the code.

Copying or leaking this code does real, measurable damage: it is the entire product, and every unlicensed copy is a licence we will never sell. Because that harm is difficult to quantify exactly after the fact, the contract sets it in advance rather than arguing about it later.

• Liquidated damages. A breach of section 3 triggers agreed damages calculated as a multiple of the annual licence fee for each affected installation, set out in your contract. This is a genuine pre-estimate of the loss, not a penalty, and it does not cap our right to recover proven losses that exceed it.
• Immediate injunctive relief. You agree that a breach causes harm money alone cannot repair and that we may seek an immediate court order stopping the infringing use, without first having to prove the full damages case and without posting security.
• Termination without refund. We may terminate the licence immediately. Fees already paid for the current term are not refunded.
• Costs. If we prevail, you carry our reasonable legal and investigation costs.

The licence follows the named entity, not the code. If your company is sold, merged or restructured, tell us — we will normally transfer the licence to the new entity on the same terms, but it needs our written consent first. A licence used by an entity we never contracted with is an unlicensed copy.

Updates are delivered signed. Running a modified or unsigned copy of the core is outside this licence, and the update channel will refuse it. Once a year, on reasonable notice and without disrupting your operations, we may ask you to confirm in writing where the code is installed and that it has not been copied elsewhere.

This licence is governed by Swedish law, and the courts of Sweden have jurisdiction — except that we may seek injunctive relief in any court with jurisdiction over the infringing use.