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by bfm 331 days ago
TL;DR TOS

Summary of the KX Community Edition License Agreement:

Key Points:

What you get:

- Free license to use KX software for personal or internal business purposes only

- No support or maintenance services included

- Software provided "as is" without warranties

Major restrictions:

- NO commercial use

- Cannot sell, distribute, or monetize any product that uses or depends on this software

- Cannot bundle it with commercial products

- Cannot reverse engineer, modify, or create derivative works

- Cannot remove copyright notices or trademarks

- Software may phone home to verify valid license

Important limitations:

- KX's liability capped at $100

- They disclaim all warranties including fitness for purpose

- You must delete software if agreement terminates

- Subject to export control laws

- KX can audit your compliance

Legal terms:

- Governed by New York law

- You retain no IP rights in the software

- Confidentiality obligations for 5 years

- KX can terminate at any time

Bottom line:

This is a restrictive free license meant for evaluation/personal use only. Any commercial use or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you need commercial rights, you'll need a different license.

1 comments

Just adding, this is completely the opposite to what the original blogspam article says. I think the references to the "Poisoned Chalice", should be updated to replace Macbeth with KX. The promise, (and delivery) of a hyper efficient way to analyse data that kdb/q gives you will always lead to final regret.