Brainstack Proprietary Source-Available Terms

May 11, 2026 · View on GitHub

These terms govern access to and use of the Brainstack repository, source code, documentation, examples, scripts, releases, and related materials.

Summary

Brainstack is proprietary source-available software. All rights are reserved.

The only permission granted by this repository is narrow personal, non-commercial, local evaluation and local personal use.

No commercial licence is granted by default. Commercial use, redistribution, hosted services, SaaS use, integrations, derivative products, model training, benchmark services, resale, sublicensing, or use inside a paid product or paid workflow requires prior written permission from the copyright owner.

Public availability on GitHub does not grant any additional rights beyond the limited permission in these terms. Any rights GitHub itself provides for viewing or forking repositories through GitHub remain subject to GitHub's own terms and do not create a licence to use Brainstack outside these terms.

This summary is not a separate licence. If there is any conflict, the full terms below control.

Permitted Use

You may:

read the source code;
clone the repository;
run Brainstack locally for personal, non-commercial evaluation;
run Brainstack locally for personal, non-commercial use;
make private local modifications for that permitted personal use.

Prohibited Use Without Prior Written Permission

You may not, without prior written permission from the copyright owner:

use Brainstack commercially;
use Brainstack in a company, business, client project, paid workflow, paid product, internal commercial tool, SaaS product, hosted service, or managed service;
redistribute Brainstack or modified versions of Brainstack;
sublicense, sell, rent, lease, package, bundle, or resell Brainstack;
publish, release, or distribute derivative works based on Brainstack;
integrate Brainstack into another public or commercial product;
use Brainstack to provide memory-kernel, agent-memory, AI-agent, automation, consulting, hosting, or infrastructure services to third parties;
use Brainstack output, source, documentation, design, or architecture to train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, or improve a commercial model, agent system, dataset, or competing product;
remove or obscure copyright, authorship, legal, attribution, or repository notices.

Commercial Licensing

Commercial rights are available only under a separate written agreement signed or otherwise explicitly approved in writing by the copyright owner.

That agreement may require a licence fee, royalty, revenue share, usage-based fee, attribution, audit rights, reporting, or other commercial terms.

Unauthorized commercial use is not licensed. If you use Brainstack commercially without permission, no licence is granted for that use, and the copyright owner reserves all rights and remedies available under applicable law.

Contributions

Unless a separate written agreement says otherwise, any contribution you submit to this repository is offered for inclusion under these same terms. Submitting a contribution does not grant you commercial rights to Brainstack.

Do not submit code, documentation, data, or other material unless you have the right to submit it under these terms.

Proprietary Source-Available Terms

All rights are reserved. No public reuse rights are granted unless a future version of this repository explicitly includes different written terms and explicitly supersedes these terms.

Publication of the source code does not grant permission to copy, modify, redistribute, sublicense, sell, host, commercialize, or create public derivative works beyond the limited personal, non-commercial use described above.

No Warranty

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the copyright owner disclaims all other warranties, representations, guarantees, or conditions, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise.

Limitation of Liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this includes direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive, or other damages arising from access to or use of Brainstack.

Reservation of Rights

All rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.