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Handler’s Windows alpha uses Handler Source and Software Terms 1.0, identifier LicenseRef-Handler-Source-1.0. The exact LICENSE.md included with Handler is reproduced below. Other products and third-party components retain their own licenses.

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Handler Source and Software Terms 1.0

# Handler Source and Software Terms 1.0

License identifier: LicenseRef-Handler-Source-1.0

Copyright (c) The Julian Utility Company and contributors.

Personal use is free. Business use requires a commercial entitlement or an
applicable evaluation grant. Source is available under the conditions below.
This is a source-available license, not an OSI-approved open-source license.

## 1. Scope and other licenses

These terms apply to the original Handler code that its rightsholders make
available under these terms (the Software). They do not replace licenses on
imported source, libraries, models, fonts or other third-party components.
Those components retain their respective licenses, notices and rights.
Consult the included third-party notices and source materials for their terms.

An earlier grant for a version or imported component is not withdrawn or
rewritten by this document. Where a component already carries another license,
that license continues to govern it. The Company grants only rights it is
entitled to grant; these terms do not assert ownership of third-party code.

Nothing in these terms restricts rights granted by the GNU LGPL, including
modifying or replacing Qt, distributing a permitted combined work, or reverse
engineering the combined work for debugging modifications to LGPL-covered
components. Any conflicting restriction in these terms is inapplicable to
the extent necessary to exercise those rights.

## 2. Personal use and source rights

Personal use means an individual's noncommercial use. It excludes work that
supports a business, paid freelance work, and internal use by a commercial
organization. Subject to these terms, you may use, study, copy and modify the
Software for personal use without payment. These rights are worldwide,
non-exclusive and perpetual for the version received, subject only to the
material-breach provisions below.

You may distribute the Software or your modifications without charging for
them, provided that you include these terms and the corresponding source for
the version distributed, preserve applicable notices, and make your
modifications to the Software available under these same terms. Recipients
receive these rights directly from the relevant rightsholders. Third-party
components may be distributed only in accordance with their own licenses;
this paragraph neither expands nor limits those separate grants.

Distributing a modified version does not grant rights to use the Company's
names, logos or marks as that version's branding or to imply endorsement.
Use a distinct name for your fork; factual attribution is permitted.

## 3. Business evaluation

The Company grants a no-charge, 30-day business evaluation beginning with
your first business evaluation use of Handler. Reinstalling or installing an
update does not restart that period unless a separate offer expressly grants
another evaluation. It does not automatically convert to a paid purchase.
Continued business use after that period requires a
commercial entitlement, unless a separate applicable offer permits it.

Existing written alpha offers and previously granted purchase terms remain
effective within their stated scope. This evaluation does not shorten them.
Expiration does not transfer ownership of your content or authorize deletion
of your content, settings or workflows. You may access and export your data
after expiration; this does not grant ongoing commercial workflow execution.

## 4. Commercial software and retained versions

A commercial entitlement permits business use within the user or seat scope
and version coverage stated in the applicable purchase terms. A completed
software purchase includes continued use of the local versions expressly
covered by that purchase.

For commercial software coverage purchased under these terms, each fully
paid coverage period includes a perpetual fallback right to the local
versions made available to that customer during that period, within the
purchased user or seat scope. There is no additional minimum subscription
duration. Ordinary cancellation or nonrenewal ends future coverage, not
the retained-version rights already earned.

Retained rights include the licensed local features of the covered versions
and use of your workflows and configuration with those versions. A licensing
service outage alone does not terminate those rights. Preserve your purchase
record and a permitted copy of the covered version. These terms do not promise
indefinite download hosting, compatibility with future operating systems,
unlimited support, or all future upgrades.

An inference-only or other hosted-service purchase is not a commercial
desktop entitlement unless the purchase expressly includes one. No historical
purchase is retrospectively reinterpreted by these terms. Existing purchase
terms control the rights actually granted by that purchase.

## 5. Services, data and payment disputes

Hosted inference, external APIs, support, managed services and other ongoing
services are separate from retained local-software rights. Their availability,
quotas and duration follow their own agreements. No perpetual cloud compute
or continued third-party service availability is implied.

You retain your rights in your content. These terms do not authorize the
Company to delete or withhold your content because coverage ended. Refunds
and chargebacks affect entitlements only as stated in the applicable purchase
agreement or required by law; cancellation alone is not a breach. These terms
do not introduce a new payment obligation or automatic charge.

## 6. Changes and transfers

Prospective changes to these terms apply only to versions provided under
those changed terms. Rights already granted for an obtained version continue
under the terms accompanying that version. A transfer of the project does
not revoke those grants. Existing commercial purchases and time-limited
services remain subject to their actual purchase agreements, rather than
becoming perpetual services by implication.

If the Company publicly declares the project abandoned, or for 48 consecutive
months publishes no release, accepts no substantial change and declares no
intent to continue, the last version of first-party Software distributed
under these terms also becomes available under the MIT License. This
conversion applies only to rights the Company can grant. It does not relicense
third-party components or remove any earlier conversion rights already
granted under another license.

## 7. Material breach and cure

Rights under these terms terminate prospectively for a material breach.
They revive automatically if you cure the breach within 30 days after
becoming aware of it, including stopping a noncompliant distribution and
meeting its source and notice requirements. This does not revoke rights
granted independently by third-party licenses. Ordinary cancellation,
nonrenewal or a service outage is not a material breach.

## 8. Warranty and general terms

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS",
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR
NONINFRINGEMENT. THE RIGHTSHOLDERS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR CLAIMS OR DAMAGES
ARISING FROM THE SOFTWARE OR ITS USE. NOTHING HERE EXCLUDES RIGHTS OR
LIABILITIES THAT APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW TO BE EXCLUDED.

If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply.
These terms govern the Software within their stated scope; separate licenses
and purchase agreements remain effective as described above.
Other products: Utility Source License 1.0

This older general license is retained for products that ship under it. It is not the Handler alpha’s license.

Copyright (c) The Julian Utility Company (Julian Wilner, sole proprietor). All rights reserved.

The Julian Utility Company is a trade name used by Julian Wilner for the sale and licensing of the Software. References to "the copyright holder" in this license mean Julian Wilner, on behalf of The Julian Utility Company.

1. Definitions

"The Software" means this work in source or binary form, including any substantial portion of it, and any Derivative Work of it.

"Derivative Work" means a modified version, port, translation, adaptation, or any work that incorporates or is substantially derived from the Software or a substantial portion of it.

"Personal Use" means use by an individual for personal, noncommercial purposes. It does not include use that is intended to, or does in fact, generate revenue, support a business, or provide an internal tool to a commercial organization.

"Commercial License" means a separate license for commercial use, purchased from the copyright holder or an authorized reseller.

2. Grant

Subject to these terms, the copyright holder grants you a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive right to use, study, modify, and distribute the Software for Personal Use, in source or binary form.

3. Distribution

You may distribute the Software or a Derivative Work to others, at no charge, provided you:

  1. include this license, unmodified, with the distribution;
  2. include the corresponding source code, or a written offer to provide it that remains valid for at least 12 months;
  3. distribute only under these terms: you may not re-license, sublicense, or impose different terms on recipients; and
  4. retain all copyright, attribution, and license notices.

Every recipient from you receives the same rights you received under these terms.

4. Commercial use requires a license

Any use of the Software or a Derivative Work that is not Personal Use, including selling it, shipping it inside a commercial product or service, or using it to deliver paid services, requires a Commercial License. Nothing in this license grants commercial rights.

5. Names and marks

The Software's product names, logos, icons, and branding belong to the copyright holder. You may not distribute a Derivative Work under the Software's name or branding; forks must use a clearly different name and may not imply endorsement.

6. Hosted services

This license covers the Software's code, not the copyright holder's servers. Having the source does not by itself grant access to any hosted service (hosted inference, sync, update delivery, or accounts); those services have their own terms and quotas. This does not limit the Software's built-in features that call those services; it only means the license is not a substitute for an account or subscription where one is required.

7. Your rights are yours to keep

Rights granted for a version of the Software you validly obtained cannot be revoked for that version, by the copyright holder or anyone claiming through them. If the terms of this license change in the future, the new terms apply only to versions distributed after the change; every version you already obtained remains available to you under the terms you received it under.

8. If the project is sold or transferred

Any successor or acquirer of the project takes it subject to this license for every version already distributed under it. In addition, the successor must honor:

  1. every Commercial License sold before the transfer: these remain perpetual and valid for the scope purchased; and
  2. every active subscription through the end of its paid period, or refund the unused portion.

9. Abandonment

If, for 48 consecutive months, the copyright holder publishes no release of the Software, accepts no substantial change to it, and declares no intent to continue, or publicly declares the project abandoned, then the last version distributed under these terms becomes available under the MIT License. This is the only automatic conversion in this license.

10. Termination

If you breach these terms, your rights terminate prospectively. Your rights revive automatically if, within 30 days of becoming aware of the breach, you cure it (for distribution breaches: stop the violating distribution and comply with Section 3).

11. No warranty

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY ARISING FROM, OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR ITS USE.

12. General

If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in force. This license is the entire agreement between you and the copyright holder regarding the Software.

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