COGNITUS LAB PROPRIETARY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA)
================================================================================
AXIM MEMORY SDK™ — Universal AI Memory & Quantization Engine
Copyright (c) 2026 Cognitus Lab. All Rights Reserved.
================================================================================

IMPORTANT — READ CAREFULLY BEFORE DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING, COPYING, OR USING:
This End User License Agreement ("Agreement" or "EULA") is a legally binding contract
between you (either an individual or a single legal entity, hereinafter "Licensee" or
"You") and Cognitus Lab ("Licensor", "Cognitus", "We", or "Us").

BY DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING AXIM MEMORY SDK (INCLUDING
ITS COMPILED PACKAGES, PYTHON MODULES, INTERFACES, DATA STRUCTURES, EMBEDDING ENGINES,
AND RUNTIME ARTIFACTS), YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT DOWNLOAD, INSTALL,
OR USE AXIM MEMORY SDK.

================================================================================
1. 100% COGNITUS LAB PROPRIETARY OWNERSHIP
================================================================================
Axim Memory SDK, including all software modules (axim_memory, client, store,
turboquant), extreme compression algorithms, 1-bit / 2-bit quantization routines,
Hamming distance space projection methods, cosine clustering structures, dual-tier
memory architectures, and documentation, are the sole and exclusive property of
Cognitus Lab.

This software is licensed, NOT sold. Cognitus Lab retains all right, title,
ownership, and interest in and to Axim Memory SDK, including all worldwide intellectual
property rights, patents, patent applications, copyrights, trade secrets, moral
rights, trademarks, and proprietary technical know-how.

No ownership rights or intellectual property rights are transferred to You.
All rights not expressly granted in Section 2 are strictly reserved by Cognitus Lab.

================================================================================
2. GRANT OF LIMITED USE LICENSE (EXECUTION ONLY)
================================================================================
Conditioned upon Your continuous compliance with all terms of this Agreement,
Cognitus Lab grants You a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable,
revocable, limited license solely to:

  (a) Download and install compiled packages of Axim Memory SDK on Your personal
      computers, workstations, servers, or cloud virtual machines;
  (b) Execute and run Axim Memory SDK modules exclusively as an AI memory and vector
      retrieval SDK to power Your AI agents, LLM pipelines, and applications (in
      the identical manner in which a proprietary runtime or SDK is utilized by
      developers to execute workloads on user infrastructure).

================================================================================
3. STRICT RESTRICTIONS — NO COPYING, NO RESELLING, NO REDISTRIBUTION
================================================================================
You explicitly agree that You shall NOT, directly or indirectly:

  (a) NO RESALE OR COMMERCIALIZATION: You shall not sell, resell, lease, rent,
      loan, license, sublicense, monetize, distribute, or transfer copies of
      Axim Memory SDK or any of its component modules to any third party;
  (b) NO COPYING OR MIRRORING: You shall not copy, duplicate, replicate, mirror,
      or publicly host Axim Memory SDK packages, wheels, or source trees on any
      third-party server, repository, or distribution network without express
      prior written consent from Cognitus Lab;
  (c) NO DERIVATIVE MONETIZATION: You shall not package, bundle, or redistribute
      Axim Memory SDK into standalone commercial memory databases or competing
      vector retrieval SDKs for sale.

================================================================================
4. ANTI-REVERSE ENGINEERING, ANTI-DECOMPILATION, & IP PROTECTION
================================================================================
Axim Memory SDK contains valuable trade secrets, confidential algorithmic structures,
and proprietary mathematical representations belonging to Cognitus Lab.

You strictly agree that You shall NOT, and shall not assist, permit, or cause
any employee, contractor, agent, or third party to:

  (a) Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, translate, decipher, probe,
      or attempt to derive proprietary trade secrets, internal logic, or hidden
      algorithms of Axim Memory SDK;
  (b) Extract, reconstruct, or isolate mathematical transforms, TurboQuant compression
      matrices, quantization formulas, or state tables embedded within the software;
  (c) Circumvent, disable, bypass, or defeat any integrity verification, digital
      signature, or anti-tamper mechanisms;
  (d) Modify, patch, adapt, create derivative works of, or build competing vector
      compression or agent memory frameworks based on Axim Memory SDK routines.

================================================================================
5. UPDATES AND INTEGRITY VERIFICATION
================================================================================
Cognitus Lab may, from time to time, issue security patches, compatibility updates,
and performance improvements. Cognitus Lab reserves the right to incorporate integrity
verification mechanisms to ensure that the SDK executing within Your environment
has not been tampered with or altered.

================================================================================
6. TERMINATION
================================================================================
This Agreement is effective from the date You first download, install, or use
Axim Memory SDK and shall remain in effect until terminated. Your rights under this
Agreement will terminate automatically and immediately without notice from
Cognitus Lab if You fail to comply with any provision of this Agreement.
Upon termination, You must immediately cease all use of Axim Memory SDK and
permanently destroy all copies of Axim Memory SDK in Your possession or control.

================================================================================
7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
================================================================================
AXIM MEMORY SDK IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, COGNITUS LAB DISCLAIMS
ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

================================================================================
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
================================================================================
IN NO EVENT SHALL COGNITUS LAB, ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, OR LICENSORS
BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION,
LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY
TO USE AXIM MEMORY SDK, EVEN IF COGNITUS LAB HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES.

================================================================================
9. GOVERNING LAW & JURISDICTION
================================================================================
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws
applicable to proprietary software licensing, without regard to conflict of law
principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International
Sale of Goods shall not apply.

================================================================================
For licensing inquiries, enterprise deployments, or OEM integrations, contact:
Cognitus Lab — https://github.com/Cognitus-Lab
================================================================================
