Required Notice: Copyright 2026 PawDelta LLC (https://pawdelta.com/brindle)

# Brindle License 1.0

## Acceptance

By installing or using the software, you agree to these terms. In order to get any license under these terms, you must agree to them as both strict obligations and conditions to all your licenses.

## Use License

The licensor grants you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, non-sublicensable, non-transferable copyright license to install and use the software for any purpose, including commercial purposes, other than a **Competing Use**, and subject to the other limitations and conditions below. A Competing Use is outside this license. If you make one, you are using the software without a license.

## No Modification

You may not change, adapt, translate or create new works based on the software, except as allowed under **Permitted Changes**, or as the licensor allows you in writing.

## Permitted Changes

You may make these changes without asking:

1. **Contributions.** Changes you make only to submit to the licensor, through the licensor's official repository for the software or another channel the licensor designates in writing. The licensor accepts contributions only from people who have signed its contributor license agreement, which governs the rights granted in those contributions. If you submit a contribution without one, you license it to the licensor under any terms the licensor chooses, and you confirm you have the right to do so. Submitting a contribution does not change your standing under these terms: it gives you no further rights to the software, including to any version that includes your contribution, and takes away none of your licenses.

2. **Configuration and plugins.** Settings, agent profiles and plugins that work through the software's documented configuration and extension points, without changing any file of the software itself. A plugin may not include any part of the software.

3. **Private fixes.** Changes to your own installed copies that fix a defect, kept only for use by you and your company and not shared with anyone else.

No change permitted here, including a plugin, may do anything **License Keys and Paid Features** forbids, or be a Competing Use.

## No Redistribution

Unless PawDelta LLC gives you express written permission, you may not distribute, sublicense, sell, rent, lend or otherwise make the software, or any changed copy of it, available to anyone else. Everyone who uses the software must get it from the licensor's official distribution channels, such as its package on the Python Package Index or its official repository, from someone PawDelta LLC has permitted in writing to distribute it, or from within their own company as the next paragraph allows. You may make copies only as needed to install and use the software yourself, and to keep backups.

If you are an entity, you may also copy the software, unchanged except as **Permitted Changes** allows, within your company: to internal package mirrors and caches, to build and container images, and onto computers and networks your company controls, including networks not connected to the internet, as long as only your company and individuals working for it can get the copies, and only to use them as these terms allow.

A fork of the official repository that a code hosting service's own terms allow is permitted only to view the software and prepare contributions under **Permitted Changes**.

## Competing Use

A **Competing Use** is any use of the software, or of any part of it (including its code, prompts, agent profiles, schemas and documentation), to build, provide or support a **Protected Service** to others, meaning to anyone other than your company.

A **Protected Service** is a product that does any of the following, as listed in the file `SCHEDULE-A` shipped with the version of the software you use:

1. **Hosted service.** Provides the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service, where the service provides users with access to any substantial set of the features or functionality of the software.
2. **Cross-installation coordination.** Coordinates agents, work, policies or state across installations of the software that belong to different people or organizations.
3. **Commercial registries and marketplaces.** Operates a commercial registry or marketplace that distributes or sells agent profiles, plugins or policies for the software made by others. Sharing or selling agent profiles, plugins or policies you made yourself is not a Protected Service.
4. **Entitlement compatibility.** Issues, verifies or emulates the software's license keys or entitlements.

The list in `SCHEDULE-A` is fixed for each release. The licensor may change it for later releases, and a change does not affect versions already released.

**Existing non-competing products.** If you are using the software to provide a product that is not a Protected Service when you start, and the licensor later adds a new Protected Service that brings your product into competition, you may keep using the versions released before that change for your product, but not later versions.

**Discontinued services.** If the licensor and its affiliates have stopped providing a Protected Service for twelve months, you may use the software to provide a similar product, unless `SCHEDULE-A` names that service as a Licensor Line of Business.

## Allowed Uses

None of the following is a Competing Use:

1. **Internal use.** Any use for you and your company, including coordinating your company's own people and installations with tools that you or your company control.
2. **Services for a customer's own use.** Installing, configuring or supporting the software for a customer who uses it under these terms and who gets the software from the licensor's official channels.
3. **Products built on the software.** Products or agents that run on the software or use its documented extension points and do not provide a Protected Service.
4. **Interoperability.** Tools that use the software's documented command line or protocols to read its status or send it work.
5. **Education and research.** Teaching, study and research that do not provide a Protected Service.

## Competition

Whether something is a Protected Service depends on what it does, not on its price, its interface, its platform or the language it is written in.

## License Keys and Paid Features

Some features of the software work only with a paid plan, an entitlement or a license file from the licensor. These terms do not license those features without one. You may not move, change, disable, bypass or circumvent the software's license key, entitlement or account checks, or any functionality those checks protect, and you may not remove or obscure any functionality the license key protects. You also may not reverse engineer or reimplement the software's license-check or entitlement protocol, or issue or accept keys or entitlements of your own, to obtain or provide paid features without a license from the licensor. You may not remove or hide any licensing, copyright or other notices of the licensor in the software. A plugin or configuration that does any of these things is not a permitted change.

## Violations

Use of the software in violation of these terms, or beyond your licenses, is not licensed, and your licenses end automatically. If the licensor notifies you of a violation in writing and you stop all violation within 30 days after you receive the notice, your licenses are reinstated retroactively. For a Competing Use, stopping means ending it and deleting everything you built from the software for it. If you violate these terms after a reinstatement, your licenses end permanently.

## No Other Rights

These terms do not allow you to sublicense or transfer any of your licenses to anyone else, or prevent the licensor from granting licenses to anyone else. These terms do not imply any other licenses.

If you are an entity, you may transfer all of your licenses to an organization that acquires all or substantially all of your business or assets, if that organization agrees to these terms.

## Successors and Affiliates

The licensor's rights under these terms, including to enforce **Competing Use**, also belong to its affiliates, and to anyone who buys the line of business developing or offering the software, or a Protected Service, from the licensor or its affiliates.

## Severability and Remedies

If a court finds any part of **Competing Use** unenforceable as written, it applies to the greatest extent the law allows, and the rest of these terms are unaffected.

A Competing Use causes harm that money cannot fully repair. You agree that the licensor may seek an injunction and specific performance without proving actual damages.

## Trademarks

These terms do not grant you any right to use the names, logos or trademarks of the licensor or its affiliates, including "Brindle" and "PawDelta", except to accurately identify the software and its origin.

## Patent License

The licensor grants you a patent license for the software that covers patent claims the licensor can license, or becomes able to license, that you would infringe by using the software as these terms allow. This license does not cover patent claims that you cause to be infringed by changes or additions to the software.

## Patent Defense

If you make any written claim that the software infringes or contributes to infringement of any patent, your patent license for the software granted under these terms ends immediately. If your company makes such a claim, your patent license ends immediately for work on behalf of your company.

## Fair Use

You may have "fair use" rights for the software under the law. These terms do not limit them.

## Notices

You must keep this license, the file `SCHEDULE-A`, and any plain-text lines beginning with `Required Notice:` intact in every copy of the software you make.

## No Liability

***As far as the law allows, the software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and the licensor will not be liable to you for any damages arising out of these terms or the use or nature of the software, under any kind of legal claim.***

## Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of these terms or the software will be heard only in the state or federal courts located in the State of New York, and you and the licensor consent to their jurisdiction.

## Definitions

The **licensor** is PawDelta LLC, the entity offering these terms, and the **software** is the software the licensor makes available under these terms, including any portion of it.

**You** refers to the individual or entity agreeing to these terms.

**Your company** is any legal entity, sole proprietorship, or other kind of organization that you work for, plus all organizations that have control over, are under the control of, or are under common control with that organization. **Control** means ownership of substantially all the assets of an entity, or the power to direct its management and policies by vote, contract, or otherwise. Control can be direct or indirect.

**Affiliates** are the organizations that an organization has control over, is under the control of, or is under common control with.

**Your licenses** are all the licenses granted to you for the software under these terms.

**Use** means anything you do with the software requiring one of your licenses.

A **product** is any goods or services, including software and hosted services.
