LEGAL DOSSIER

Copyright © 2013-2026 Warith Al Maawali

This distribution contains "Kodachi Materials" authored by the Licensor that are covered by the Kodachi Source-Available Noncommercial License v1.1 (KSAN-1.1).

This distribution also contains third-party software subject to its own licenses, including Debian packages and other open source projects. The appendix below explains where the authoritative per-package notices are installed; it is not a complete public inventory or SBOM.

The Licensor makes Kodachi Materials available for learning, research, and Home or other Noncommercial Use, while reserving Commercial Use for paid licensing so development can continue sustainably.

Licensor: Warith Al Maawali

Contact for permissions and commercial licensing: warith@digi77.com

3.1 Binaries

This License is effective for Kodachi-authored binaries as of 2025-08-25.

3.2 Source Code

This License applies to Kodachi-authored source code from the date each item was first published by the Licensor, including prior Kodachi builds and other applications published by the Licensor via digi77.com, kodachi.cloud, or GitHub.

3.3 Single License

This same License text governs Kodachi Materials wherever published or distributed, including websites, GitHub repositories, source archives, and binary releases.

4.1 "Kodachi Materials"

means only the elements authored by the Licensor for Kodachi and related projects, including source code, scripts, artwork, documentation, and binaries that the Licensor identifies in the NOTICE. It excludes third-party software.

4.2 "Home Use"

means personal, noncommercial use by a private individual on devices the individual owns or controls.

4.3 "Noncommercial Use"

means any use that is not Commercial Use.

4.4 "Commercial Use"

means any use by or for a business, company, organization, government, or school, or any activity intended for monetary or organizational benefit, including internal use by employees or contractors.

Subject to this License, the Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to:

1. download, install, and run Kodachi Materials for Home or other Noncommercial Use;
2. make personal backups for Noncommercial Use;
3. privately modify Kodachi Materials and use such modifications for Noncommercial Use.

6.1 Unmodified Official Builds

You may redistribute exact, unmodified copies of official Kodachi builds to individuals for Noncommercial Use if you include this License and the NOTICE unchanged and do not charge a fee other than actual media or transfer costs.

6.2 No Public Distribution of Modified Builds

You may not publicly distribute or publish modified versions, forks, or derivative builds without the Licensor's prior written permission.

Without a separate written commercial license from the Licensor, you may not:

1. use Kodachi Materials for Commercial Use or within any organization;
2. offer hosting, managed services, consulting, or security services powered by or incorporating Kodachi Materials;
3. integrate Kodachi Materials into a product, appliance, or image intended for distribution or deployment by others;
4. sell, rent, license, or monetize Kodachi Materials or derived works;
5. remove or alter attribution, trademarks, LICENSE, or NOTICE.

Paid Premium and Custom plans provide access to plan-specific dashboard products, enhanced infrastructure, and support under separate terms.

Custom plans additionally include direct developer support within the limits published on the pricing page: written channels only (email and private Discord messages; no phone calls, video calls or screen-sharing), a fixed number of support cases per organization per license year, Kodachi issues only, one or two named contacts per organization, provided on a best-effort basis without any service-level guarantee. Custom development and custom builds are quoted separately; third-party software and services, general system administration, and machines not running Kodachi are outside that support.

Purchase of a Premium or Custom plan grants Commercial Use rights only as expressly stated in this License and only for the duration of the paid annual license term (12 months from activation), per licensed device and within the scope of the purchased plan.

Use of Kodachi Materials is governed by this License and the current Kodachi pricing plans published by the Licensor.

Personal, Home, and other Noncommercial Use is permitted without charge under the Free Plan and remains subject to usage limits and policies defined by the Licensor.

The Free Plan includes the purpose-hardened operating-system core, the Lite Classic and Circle dashboards (including the AI Chat, AI Commander, Workflows and Command Builder pages of Lite Classic), the Simple and Direct startup modes, every visual pack plus accessibility and performance controls, one Default preference profile, current-session command history, the kodachi.cloud web tools that are not marked Premium, and access to the normal managed-node pool subject to fair-use limits.

Premium includes the Free Plan capabilities plus the Vitals system monitor, the top-level SOC dashboard, the ColonyOps operations workspace, the Advanced startup mode, the VPN Providers and Mobile Manager pages of Lite Classic, multiple preference profiles, persistent command and execution history, the Premium web tools on kodachi.cloud (Domain Intelligence, DNS Propagation and IP Analytics), and Premium managed-node access. Custom includes the Premium capabilities plus custom-server operations and the dedicated infrastructure described in the purchased plan.

The two lists above describe the plans as of 22 October 2026. The Licensor sets which dashboard products, pages and web tools belong to each plan on its license server and publishes the current allocation in the plan comparison at https://kodachi.cloud/docs/support.html#plans, which signed-in Kodachi dashboards and kodachi.cloud apply. Where that published comparison differs from the lists above, the published comparison governs plan entitlements. A change to plan entitlements never narrows the software-use grant in Section 5.

These plan-specific product and service entitlements are distinct from the underlying permission to download, install, run, back up, or privately modify Kodachi Materials for Home or other Noncommercial Use under Section 5.

Purchase of a Premium or Custom plan constitutes an annual commercial license granting the right to use Kodachi Materials for Commercial Use for a term of 12 months from activation, including all updates released during that term regardless of version number, and only within the scope of the purchased plan.

Upon expiration of the 12-month license term, the commercial license granted under that plan immediately ends unless renewed. Continued Commercial Use after expiration requires a new or renewed annual license.

Donations do not constitute a commercial license and do not grant Commercial Use rights.

Paid plans may include access to shared, low-density, or dedicated infrastructure operated by or on behalf of the Licensor.

Managed-node, Premium-pool, and custom-server access is authorized by the Licensor's servers for each request or session. A locally displayed tier, modified application, or locally stored file does not by itself grant access to those server resources.

Infrastructure access is provided on a best-effort basis and does not modify, replace, or extend the disclaimers, limitations of liability, or absence of warranties defined in this License.

No uptime guarantees, performance guarantees, or service level agreements are provided unless explicitly agreed in writing.

The Free Plan is intended solely for Home and other Noncommercial Use and may be subject to reasonable usage limits, including daily time limits, resource allocation policies, or fair-use controls.

The Free Plan remains a functional privacy and security operating system. Fair-use limits may apply to shared infrastructure, while the plan-specific dashboard products, web tools, persistence features, and server resources listed in Section 8A require the corresponding entitlement. Those product tiers do not narrow the software-use grant in Section 5.

In the event of any inconsistency between this License and pricing descriptions, plan summaries, or marketing materials, this License shall control with respect to software usage rights, while the pricing terms shall control with respect to billing and infrastructure access.

After a valid Premium or Custom key is activated, the dashboard may store a short-lived cryptographically signed entitlement claim bound to the licensed device. On later starts, the dashboard verifies a fresh claim from the Licensor's server and may unlock the applicable plan automatically without requiring the key to be entered again.

A missing, expired, altered, wrong-device, or otherwise invalid claim is treated as Free. A signed claim expires no later than seven days after issuance and never beyond the paid license term, and the dashboard does not unlock paid features from a stored claim alone: a running dashboard holds a verified answer through about half an hour of lost contact with the Licensor's server, and a dashboard that starts without that contact shows the Free set until it signs in again. An authoritative inactive, revoked, released, blocked, or expired status removes paid local access on the next successful status check.

The signed local claim is designed to prevent ordinary local-file editing from granting paid access. It is not a guarantee against modification of the application by a person with administrative or root control of the device. Server-authorized resources remain independently enforced as stated in Section 8B.

Plan-specific dashboard capabilities are enforced by the signed dashboard releases of Kodachi 10 and later. The allocation of capabilities to plans travels in the signed claim, so a dashboard signed in to the Licensor's server applies a change to the allocation published under Section 8A within about ten minutes, without a software update.

Kodachi distributions include third-party components under their own licenses. Those licenses remain in full force and prevail in case of conflict. This License covers only Kodachi Materials authored by the Licensor.

"Kodachi" and related marks are trademarks of the Licensor. No trademark rights are granted by this License. You may make factual, nominative references as permitted by law.

If you begin Commercial Use without a license, upon written notice from the Licensor you have ten calendar days to cease such use or obtain a commercial license. Continued use after that period is a breach of this License.

Where the Licensor has a reasonable basis to believe Commercial Use is occurring, the Licensor may request non-intrusive written confirmation limited to identifying deployment scope and license coverage. You agree to respond within ten business days.

Kodachi may check for updates. No conventional Kodachi account fields such as name, email, or phone number are required, while requests can still process network, session, device, and client metadata needed for service operation. See the applicable Privacy Policy.

This License terminates automatically upon breach. Upon termination, you must cease use of Kodachi Materials and destroy copies in your possession, except where third-party open source licenses grant you independent rights to third-party components.

This License is governed by the laws of Oman. Exclusive venue and jurisdiction are in the courts of Muscat, Oman, unless the Licensor agrees otherwise in writing.

To obtain Commercial Use rights, contact: warith@digi77.com

This License is the complete agreement for Kodachi Materials authored by the Licensor. If there is a conflict between this License and third-party open source licenses bundled with Kodachi distributions, the third-party licenses control for their respective components only.

Notwithstanding any conflicting term of KSAN-1.1, the Licensor licenses under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) all Kodachi-authored visual content as displayed in screenshots of unmodified Kodachi OS interfaces, and official Kodachi OS promotional images published by the Licensor on kodachi.cloud.

This grant applies only to those complete screenshots and promotional images. It does not relicense Kodachi OS software, source code, executable binaries, interface implementation, or standalone assets extracted and distributed separately.

Third-party content remains governed by its own license. No patent or trademark rights are granted, and use must not imply sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, or authorization by the Kodachi OS project.

This is a separate additional license grant and does not otherwise modify KSAN-1.1.

Kodachi OS includes third-party software components subject to their own licenses. This appendix is a disclosure guide, not a complete component inventory or complete attribution list.

Debian Base System

Kodachi is built on Debian GNU/Linux. Debian packages and components are governed by their respective licenses, primarily:

• GPL-2.0 and GPL-3.0 for many core utilities
• LGPL for libraries
• Various other open source licenses

On an installed system, Debian package copyright and license notices are stored under /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright. For Debian licensing guidance, see debian.org/legal/licenses.

Third-Party Components

A complete public package-by-package attribution inventory is not currently published on this page. Consult the installed package copyright files and the source distribution for the authoritative notices that ship with each component. Do not treat this appendix as an SBOM. These upstream licenses remain in full force and prevail over this License for their respective components.

Common Open Source Licenses

Full license texts can be found at:

• GPL-2.0: gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0
• GPL-3.0: gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0
• MIT License: opensource.org/licenses/MIT
• Apache-2.0: apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
• BSD-3-Clause: opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause