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## START9 NON-COMMERCIAL LICENSE v1
Version 1, 22 September 2022

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION

### 1.Definitions

"License" means version 1 of the Start9 Non-Commercial License.

"Licensor" means the Start9 Labs, Inc, or its successor(s) in interest, or a future assignee of the copyright.

"You" (or "Your") means an individual or organization exercising permissions granted by this License.

"Source Code" for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.

"Object Code" means any non-source form of a work, including the machine-language output by a compiler or assembler.

"Work" means any work of authorship, whether in Source or Object form, made available under this License.

"Derivative Work" means any work, whether in Source or Object form, that is based on (or derived from) the Work.

"Distribute" means to convey or to publish and generally has the same meaning here as under U.S. Copyright law.

"Sell" means practicing any or all of the rights granted to you under the License to provide to third parties, for a fee or other consideration (including, without limitation, fees for hosting, consulting, or support services), a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Work or Derivative Work.

### 2. Grant of Rights

Subject to the terms of this license, the Licensor grants you, the licensee, a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to access, audit, copy, modify, compile, run, test, distribute, or otherwise use the Software.

### 3. Limitations

1. The grant of rights under the License does NOT include, and the License does NOT grant You the right to Sell the Work or Derivative Work.
2. If you Distribute the Work or Derivative Work, you expressly undertake not to remove or modify, in any manner, the copyright notices attached to the Work or displayed in any output of the Work when run, and to reproduce these notices, in an identical manner, in any distributed copies of the Work or Derivative Work together with a copy of this License.
3. If you Distribute a Derivative Work, it must carry prominent notices stating that it has been modified from the Work, providing a relevant date.

### 4. Contributions

You hereby grant to Licensor a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use and exploit any Derivative Work of which you are the author.

### 5. Disclaimer

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. LICENSOR HAS NO OBLIGATION TO SUPPORT RECIPIENTS OF THE SOFTWARE.