PYTHOS FREE EDUCATION LICENSE
Pythos is free educational software. It exists to give every student, everywhere, access to high-quality mathematics and physics tutoring without paying for it.
Commercial organizations may include Pythos in paid products, platforms, educational systems, enterprise software, and subscription services. The license requires that free access to Pythos itself remains preserved.
PFEL v2.0 is a proposed license currently being prepared for formal deployment and legal review. It is provided here for transparency and public discussion and should not be interpreted as legal advice.
This license has not been attorney-reviewed or tested in court. No guarantee of enforceability in any jurisdiction is made or implied.
⚡ Free Access Must Always Be Preserved
If a company includes Pythos in a commercial product, users must still have a clear, direct, functional path to the official free version of Pythos.
That path must not require any of the following:
✦ What Commercial Use Is Permitted
Commercial organizations are welcome to build products and services around Pythos. The license permits a wide range of commercial activity.
A company may charge for its own product while including Pythos — provided the link to the official free Pythos service is clearly, directly, and prominently available to users without payment.
📦 Paid Platforms & SaaS
Subscription services, educational platforms, enterprise software, and school systems may include Pythos while preserving free access.
🔧 Installation & Configuration
Charging for deployment, setup, and technical configuration services around Pythos is permitted.
🎓 Training & Consulting
Paid training programs, consulting engagements, and professional advice related to Pythos integration are permitted.
⚙️ Custom Development
Charging for custom development work, integration services, and bespoke software built around Pythos is permitted.
🖥️ Infrastructure & Hosting
Paid server management, infrastructure services, and hosting for a customer's own Pythos deployment are permitted.
🧩 Proprietary Features
Proprietary curriculum, analytics, enhanced AI models, additional academic subjects, and other independent value-added features are permitted.
🛠️ Technical Support
Paid support plans and professional support services related to Pythos use are permitted.
🎁 Advertising & Donations
Advertising-supported free access, voluntary donations, grants, and sponsorships related to Pythos development are permitted.
"Our $20/month platform includes Pythos." — permitted, provided users are also clearly told: "Pythos is available free at pythos.lanzar.me" — and that link genuinely works without payment.
⊘ What Is Not Permitted
The license prohibits arrangements that eliminate or obstruct free access to Pythos — regardless of how those arrangements are labeled or structured.
Making payment a prerequisite for accessing Pythos itself.
Hiding the free Pythos link in legal terms, footer footnotes, or inaccessible locations.
Placing the free link behind authentication — only accessible after logging into the commercial product.
Routing users through a payment or subscription gate before they can follow the free link.
Stating or implying that payment is required to access Pythos, without clarifying the free alternative.
Claiming there is no free version of Pythos.
Technically blocking or interfering with user access to the official free Pythos service.
Deliberately crippling a Covered Work solely to make a paid product appear superior by comparison.
⚖️ The Distinction
The license draws a clear line between two different situations:
Paying for a product that includes Pythos — with the free access path clearly preserved and the official free link prominently available to users.
Paying for access to Pythos itself — where Pythos functionality is the sole or dominant purpose of the charge, and providing a free link does not cure the violation.
See PFEL v2.0 §5 for the complete definition of this distinction and the objective tests that apply.
📋 License Status & Source Availability
PFEL v2.0 is not an OSI-approved Open Source license.
The OSI Open Source Definition requires that licenses not restrict commercial use. PFEL v2.0's Free Access Preservation requirement does restrict certain commercial arrangements, which means it falls outside the OSI definition.
Pythos is accurately described as:
📖 Source-Available
The complete source code is publicly available on GitHub.
🆓 Freely Redistributable
You may use, study, fork, and redistribute under the license terms.
🎓 Free Educational Software
No payment required to access Pythos for any educational purpose.
🔄 Copyleft
Covered Works must remain under the same license terms.
PFEL v2.0 is a proposed license. It has not been formally reviewed by a licensed intellectual property attorney. Before relying on this license for commercial compliance or enforcement purposes, seek qualified legal counsel.
The full source code and license text are available in the public GitHub repository.
PYTHOS FREE EDUCATION LICENSE
Version 2.0
Copyright (c) 2026 Jon Scott / LANZAR
https://pythos.lanzar.me/
https://github.com/JonScott79/Pythos
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PREAMBLE
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No kid should be charged to learn.
Pythos is free educational software. It exists to give every
student, everywhere, access to high-quality mathematics and
physics tutoring without paying for it.
This license is designed around one principle:
FREE ACCESS TO PYTHOS MUST ALWAYS BE PRESERVED.
Commercial organizations may include Pythos in paid products,
platforms, educational systems, enterprise software, and
subscription services. Commercialization of surrounding products
is permitted.
What is not permitted is any commercialization that eliminates,
obstructs, hides, or misrepresents a user's ability to access
Pythos for free at the official Pythos service.
If a company sells a product that includes Pythos, the company
must clearly tell every user that Pythos is free and provide a
direct, functional link to the official free service. That link
must genuinely work — without payment, without a subscription,
without a credit card, without purchasing the commercial product.
The rights granted by this license are conditioned on compliance
with its terms. This is a condition of the license grant, not
merely a contractual obligation. Use that violates these conditions
is not authorized and constitutes copyright infringement.
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SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS
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1.1 "Pythos" means the software program known as Pythos as
distributed by the copyright holder, including its source
code, object code, documentation, and associated materials.
1.2 "Covered Work" means:
(a) Pythos itself;
(b) any work containing Pythos source code or any
substantial portion thereof;
(c) any modification of Pythos;
(d) any fork incorporating Pythos source code or substantial
portions thereof; or
(e) any combination incorporating Pythos source code or
substantial portions thereof.
A Covered Work does NOT include:
(i) works that independently implement similar functionality
without copying Pythos expression;
(ii) works that interface with a Pythos Network Service
through a published API without incorporating Pythos
source code; or
(iii) works that use only the outputs of Pythos (such as
mathematical answers or explanations) without
incorporating Pythos source code.
1.3 "Pythos Functionality" means the core capabilities provided
by Pythos, including AI-assisted mathematics and physics
reasoning, deterministic verification of mathematical claims,
prompt-to-claim fidelity analysis, and delivery gate
management, or substantially equivalent capabilities in a
Covered Work.
1.4 "Pythos Network Service" means any system, application,
platform, API, or service that:
(a) is made available to users over a network; and
(b) uses a Covered Work to process user inputs or requests,
including through intermediate processing layers or
microservices; and
(c) returns Pythos Functionality to those users, directly
or through intermediate systems.
A Pythos Network Service exists regardless of how it is
labeled (service, platform, product, tool, API, chatbot,
application, or otherwise), and regardless of the number
of processing layers between the Covered Work and the user.
1.5 "Official Free Pythos Service" means the free Pythos service
operated by the copyright holder at:
https://pythos.lanzar.me/
or any successor URL designated by the copyright holder.
The authoritative current URL is maintained in the canonical
project repository at https://github.com/JonScott79/Pythos
in a file named PYTHOS_FREE_URL. Operators who maintain a
Free Access Link have a 60-day grace period to update links
following any published URL change.
1.6 "Free Access Link" means a hyperlink, URL reference, or
other functional reference that satisfies all the
requirements of Section 3.2.
1.7 "User" means any person who uses, interacts with, or
receives Pythos Functionality through a Covered Work or
Pythos Network Service. Where a Covered Work is accessed
through an API, Users include both the developers who access
the API and, where applicable, the end users of applications
built on that API.
1.8 "Operator" means any person or organization that distributes,
hosts, deploys, or makes available a Covered Work or Pythos
Network Service to Users.
1.9 "You" or "Licensee" means the individual or legal entity
exercising rights under this license.
1.10 "Distribute" means to make available to others by any means,
including download, physical media, hosted service, API,
network service, embedded delivery, or any other mechanism.
1.11 "Contributor" means any person or entity that submits
material for inclusion in Pythos.
1.12 "Complete Corresponding Source Code" means the preferred
form of the Covered Work for making modifications, including
all source code necessary to generate, install, and run the
Covered Work, regardless of any intermediate compilation,
transpilation, obfuscation, or other transformation applied
before deployment.
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SECTION 2. GRANT OF RIGHTS
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Subject to the conditions of this license — which are conditions
of the grant, not merely covenants — the copyright holder grants
you a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to:
(a) use Pythos for any lawful purpose;
(b) study and inspect the Pythos source code;
(c) copy and redistribute Pythos;
(d) modify Pythos and create Covered Works;
(e) run Pythos and Covered Works, including as Pythos
Network Services; and
(f) make Pythos and Covered Works available to others.
THESE RIGHTS ARE CONDITIONED ON COMPLIANCE WITH THIS LICENSE.
Exercise of any right granted here in violation of the conditions
of this license is not authorized and constitutes copyright
infringement. These obligations are conditions of the license
grant and are not merely contractual covenants.
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SECTION 3. FREE ACCESS PRESERVATION — CORE OBLIGATION
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3.1 FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENT.
Any Operator who distributes, hosts, deploys, or makes
available a Covered Work or Pythos Network Service must
preserve free access to Pythos by satisfying ALL of the
following requirements:
(a) provide a Free Access Link as defined in Section 3.2;
(b) not engage in prohibited obstruction as defined in
Section 3.3; and
(c) not engage in misrepresentation as defined in Section 3.4.
These requirements apply regardless of whether the Operator
charges for the surrounding product, platform, service,
subscription, or software.
3.2 FREE ACCESS LINK REQUIREMENTS.
A Free Access Link must satisfy ALL of the following
objective requirements:
(a) TARGET. The link must resolve to the Official Free
Pythos Service as defined in Section 1.5. A link to
any other URL does not satisfy this requirement without
written authorization from the copyright holder.
(b) FUNCTIONAL. The link must return a live, accessible
HTTP response at the time a User follows it. A broken,
dead, or incorrectly redirecting link does not satisfy
this requirement.
(c) PAYMENT-FREE PATH. Following the link must not require
the User to provide payment, a credit card number, bank
account information, subscription status, membership
status, institutional affiliation, or any form of
financial consideration to access Pythos Functionality.
The complete path from the link to Pythos Functionality
must be traversable at no cost.
(d) PLACEMENT. The Free Access Link must appear in at
least one of the following locations:
(i) the primary landing page, product page, or
marketing page at which the Operator describes
or promotes Pythos Functionality, visible without
scrolling past the primary product description;
(ii) the purchase, checkout, or subscription flow,
before payment is confirmed; or
(iii) within the product interface, accessible within
one direct user interaction from any interface at
which Pythos Functionality is presented to a User,
not buried within menus, dropdowns, accordions,
legal pages, or multi-step navigation.
(e) ACCESSIBILITY WITHOUT AUTHENTICATION OR PURCHASE. The
Free Access Link must be accessible to a User who has
not logged into, purchased, subscribed to, or paid for
the commercial product in any form. If the link exists
only inside an authenticated or paid product interface,
it does not satisfy this requirement unless it also
appears in a pre-authentication, pre-purchase location
satisfying (d)(i) or (d)(ii).
(f) VISUAL PROMINENCE. The Free Access Link must not be
styled, positioned, or rendered in a manner designed to
discourage Users from noticing or following it.
Specifically, the link:
(i) must be rendered in a font size no smaller than
the smallest body text on the same page or screen;
(ii) must be rendered with a text-to-background color
contrast ratio of at least 3:1 (per WCAG 2.1
criterion 1.4.3 or its successor);
(iii) must not be placed exclusively within a navigation
menu, dropdown, accordion, tooltip, or other
collapsed UI element that requires a user interaction
to reveal, unless the existence and purpose of the
link is indicated by a visible, permanently displayed
label at that location; and
(iv) must not require the User to scroll significantly
past the principal page content to reach it without
any visible indicator of its existence in the
above-the-fold viewport.
(g) ACCURATE AND SPECIFIC LABEL. The Free Access Link must
be accompanied by a label or surrounding text that:
(i) includes the name "Pythos";
(ii) accurately communicates that Pythos is available
for free at the linked address; and
(iii) does not suggest, imply, or state that payment is
required to access the linked resource.
Examples of compliant labels:
"Pythos is free at pythos.lanzar.me"
"Access Pythos for free — no payment required"
"The original Pythos is freely available at
pythos.lanzar.me"
A vague label that omits the Pythos name or implies
a cost does not satisfy this requirement.
3.3 PROHIBITED OBSTRUCTION.
An Operator must not take any action — whether technical,
contractual, communicative, interface-based, or otherwise —
that is designed or reasonably likely to prevent, discourage,
or impede Users from accessing the Official Free Pythos
Service. The following specific acts are prohibited:
(a) placing the Free Access Link exclusively in legal terms,
privacy policies, end-user license agreements, footnotes,
or similar documents not ordinarily encountered by Users
during normal product use;
(b) placing the Free Access Link in a location requiring a
User to be authenticated into or to have purchased the
commercial product to find it, without also providing
the link in a pre-authentication, pre-purchase location;
(c) providing a link that routes the User through an
intermediate page requiring payment, registration, or
subscription before reaching Pythos Functionality;
(d) providing a link to a URL that is not the Official Free
Pythos Service and that imposes payment or restrictions
on Pythos Functionality;
(e) including any provision in an Operator's terms of
service, user agreement, or other contractual document
that prohibits, discourages, or penalizes Users for
accessing the Official Free Pythos Service;
(f) taking any technical measure — including DNS manipulation,
network filtering, application-level blocking, or other
technical interference — that blocks, filters, throttles,
or degrades User access to the Official Free Pythos
Service;
(g) deliberately designing the product interface to make the
Free Access Link difficult to find through visual
deemphasis, misleading navigation structure, or
intentional interface complexity; or
(h) making any communication, policy, or practice — including
verbal, written, or automated communications to Users —
that discourages Users from accessing the Official Free
Pythos Service through misrepresentation, false implication,
or unfounded negative characterization.
3.4 PROHIBITED MISREPRESENTATION.
An Operator must not make any affirmative statement to
Users that is false or misleading regarding the free
availability of Pythos. The following are prohibited:
(a) stating or implying that payment is required to access
Pythos, without immediately and prominently clarifying
that free access is available at the Official Free
Pythos Service;
(b) stating or implying that there is no free version of
Pythos;
(c) stating or implying that the Operator's product is the
official, only, or definitive version of Pythos;
(d) stating or implying that the Official Free Pythos Service
is unsafe, unreliable, discontinued, deprecated, or
inferior in any respect that is not based on demonstrably
accurate factual information that the Operator can
substantiate; or
(e) claiming official endorsement or affiliation with the
Pythos project or copyright holder without written
authorization.
3.5 PROHIBITED CRIPPLING.
An Operator must not deliberately reduce the capabilities
of a Covered Work below the documented capabilities of the
Official Free Pythos Service for the purpose of making the
commercial product appear superior by comparison to the
Covered Work.
The following acts create a rebuttable presumption of
prohibited crippling:
(a) reducing the mathematical accuracy, scope, or response
quality of a Covered Work below the documented capability
of the Official Free Pythos Service while simultaneously
marketing the paid product's superior performance over
that Covered Work; or
(b) introducing artificial errors, deliberate delays, or
artificial restrictions in a Covered Work that are not
present in the Pythos codebase and that serve no
legitimate technical purpose.
The following are expressly NOT prohibited crippling:
(c) a paid product providing additional proprietary features,
better AI models, more subjects, faster response times,
or other genuine enhancements not present in the
Official Free Pythos Service;
(d) a Covered Work operating at lower performance due to
genuine infrastructure constraints, provided those
constraints are not artificially introduced; or
(e) maintaining a Covered Work that has not been updated
to match every improvement in the Official Free Pythos
Service, provided the Operator does not represent the
Covered Work as current or equivalent to the Official
Free Pythos Service.
3.6 SCOPE OF THESE OBLIGATIONS.
These obligations apply to any Operator who distributes,
hosts, deploys, or makes a Covered Work or Pythos Network
Service available to Users, regardless of whether the
Operator is a commercial company, nonprofit, school,
university, government body, or individual.
These obligations do NOT apply to:
(a) private internal use of a Covered Work where no Users
receive Pythos Functionality externally; or
(b) use of Pythos solely to generate outputs (such as
mathematical content or explanations) incorporated into
separate works, without distributing or making available
the Covered Work itself.
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SECTION 4. WHAT THIS LICENSE DOES NOT PROHIBIT
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Subject to full compliance with Section 3, the following
activities are expressly permitted:
4.1 A commercial organization may charge for a product,
platform, service, subscription, or application that
includes, embeds, or provides access to Pythos Functionality,
provided the Operator satisfies all Free Access Preservation
requirements of Section 3.
4.2 An Operator may charge for:
(a) installation, configuration, or deployment services;
(b) technical support, consulting, or training;
(c) custom development or integration work;
(d) infrastructure, hosting, or server management for a
customer's own Pythos deployment;
(e) proprietary features, content, curriculum, analytics,
or other value genuinely separate from and independent
of Pythos Functionality, provided Pythos Functionality
remains accessible under Section 3; or
(f) enhanced AI models, improved performance, additional
academic subjects, or other genuine improvements beyond
the Official Free Pythos Service.
4.3 An Operator may operate an advertising-supported service
providing Pythos Functionality without violating this
license, provided Users are not charged money for access.
4.4 An Operator may accept voluntary donations, grants, or
sponsorships related to Pythos development or deployment,
provided access to Pythos Functionality is not conditioned
on such contributions.
4.5 A paid product may limit access to its own proprietary
infrastructure, features, and capabilities to paying
customers. The obligation under Section 3 is not to make
the paid product free — it is to preserve the path to the
Official Free Pythos Service for every User.
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SECTION 5. THE LINE: PRODUCT VERSUS ACCESS
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5.1 PERMITTED.
A company may say:
"Our $20/month platform includes Pythos."
provided it also clearly tells Users:
"Pythos is available free at https://pythos.lanzar.me/"
and that link genuinely works without payment.
5.2 PROHIBITED.
A company may NOT:
(a) tell Users: "Our $20/month platform includes Pythos —
there is no free access to Pythos"; or
(b) make Pythos Functionality accessible only to paying
customers of the Operator's service, without
preserving the path to the Official Free Pythos
Service as required by Section 3.
5.3 DIRECT CHARGE FOR PYTHOS AS A SERVICE.
Where an Operator's sole or dominant commercial purpose —
as evidenced by the Operator's own marketing materials,
product description, or user interface — is to charge Users
for access to Pythos Functionality, the Free Access Link
requirement does NOT make such an arrangement compliant.
Providing a link to the free service does not cure a
violation of this section, because Users are paying for
access to Pythos Functionality directly, not for a
surrounding product in which Pythos is incidentally included.
The distinction is:
- Paying for a product that INCLUDES Pythos, with free
access preserved → permitted under Section 4.
- Paying for ACCESS TO PYTHOS ITSELF → prohibited, even
if a free link is provided.
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SECTION 6. NETWORK SERVICES AND SOURCE AVAILABILITY
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6.1 If you operate a Pythos Network Service using a Covered
Work, you must make the Complete Corresponding Source Code
of that Covered Work available to Users at no charge, by:
(a) providing a prominent link to a publicly accessible
repository containing the Complete Corresponding
Source Code; or
(b) offering in writing to provide the Complete Corresponding
Source Code on request.
6.2 Source availability under this section does not satisfy
the Free Access Preservation requirements of Section 3.
Both obligations apply independently.
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SECTION 7. COPYLEFT — DERIVATIVE WORKS
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7.1 If you distribute a Covered Work, you must license it to
all recipients under this license, with all the same
conditions, without additional restrictions.
7.2 You may not relicense a Covered Work under terms that
eliminate or weaken the Free Access Preservation
requirements of Section 3.
7.3 You must make the Complete Corresponding Source Code of
any Covered Work you distribute available under this
license, at no charge, by publicly accessible means.
7.4 You may incorporate a Covered Work into a larger work
containing separate components under different licenses,
provided:
(a) the Covered Work portions remain clearly identified
and licensed under this license;
(b) the Free Access Preservation requirements of Section 3
are fully satisfied; and
(c) the larger work does not prevent recipients from
exercising their rights under this license with respect
to the Covered Work portions.
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SECTION 8. ATTRIBUTION
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8.1 Any redistribution or public deployment of a Covered Work
must:
(a) preserve all copyright notices in the original Pythos
source code;
(b) include the following attribution in a location visible
to Users — such as an About page, product interface, or
documentation accessible without authentication:
Based on Pythos
Copyright (c) 2026 Jon Scott / LANZAR
https://pythos.lanzar.me/
Licensed under the Pythos Free Education License
(c) not remove, alter, or obscure required attribution.
8.2 Attribution must be visible to Users without authentication
or payment. Attribution placed exclusively in source code
comments or inaccessible back-end documentation does not
satisfy this requirement for deployed network services or
distributed software.
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SECTION 9. TRADEMARKS
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9.1 This license does not grant permission to use the name
"Pythos," "LANZAR," or associated logos, trademarks, or
service marks, except:
(a) as necessary to satisfy attribution requirements under
Section 8; and
(b) to accurately describe the origin of a Covered Work
(e.g., "based on Pythos," "powered by Pythos," "derived
from Pythos").
9.2 You may not represent a Covered Work as the official Pythos
project or claim endorsement by the copyright holder without
written permission.
9.3 Trademark rights are governed by applicable trademark law
and the Pythos Trademark Policy (published separately) and
are distinct from the copyright rights governed by this
license.
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SECTION 10. PATENTS
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10.1 Each Contributor grants a worldwide, non-exclusive,
royalty-free, irrevocable patent license to make, use,
sell, offer for sale, import, and transfer Covered Works,
for patent claims licensable by that Contributor that are
necessarily infringed by their contribution alone or in
combination with Pythos.
10.2 If you initiate patent litigation — including cross-claims
or counterclaims — asserting that Pythos or a Covered Work
infringes a patent, your rights under this license terminate
automatically on the date such litigation is filed.
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SECTION 11. TERMINATION
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11.1 AUTOMATIC TERMINATION. Your rights under this license
terminate automatically if you fail to comply with any
condition of this license.
11.2 CURE. If your violation is curable, your rights may be
reinstated if:
(a) you receive written notice of the violation from the
copyright holder;
(b) you cure the violation within 30 days of receiving
notice; and
(c) you have not previously violated and been cured under
this section for a violation of the same provision.
11.3 INCURABLE VIOLATIONS. The following violations are not
subject to cure and result in immediate, permanent
termination of your rights:
(a) intentional obstruction of free access after receiving
written notice of violation;
(b) deliberate misrepresentation to Users that payment is
required for Pythos after receiving written notice;
(c) a second or subsequent violation of the same provision
following a prior cure; or
(d) distributing a Covered Work under terms that affirmatively
eliminate the Free Access Preservation requirement.
11.4 EFFECT OF TERMINATION. Upon termination, you must immediately
cease distribution of all Covered Works and cease operation
of all Pythos Network Services.
Rights of downstream recipients who received a Covered Work
from you in compliance with this license before termination
are not affected by your termination.
11.5 REINSTATEMENT. The copyright holder may reinstate terminated
rights at their sole discretion, in writing.
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SECTION 12. NO WARRANTY
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PYTHOS IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, OR NONINFRINGEMENT.
THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF PYTHOS IS
WITH YOU.
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SECTION 13. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF
DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF PROFITS) ARISING OUT
OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH PYTHOS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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SECTION 14. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
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14.1 This license is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts and applicable federal law of the United
States of America.
14.2 Legal actions arising from this license shall be brought
in the federal or state courts of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. You consent to the personal jurisdiction
of such courts for matters arising from this license.
14.3 Copyright claims under this license are federal claims
subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal
district courts of the United States.
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SECTION 15. INTERPRETATION
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15.1 The obligations in Section 3 are conditions of the copyright
license grant in Section 2. They are not merely contractual
covenants. Violation of Section 3 terminates the license
and renders continued use copyright infringement.
15.2 If any provision is found unenforceable, remaining provisions
remain in full effect to the maximum extent permitted by law.
15.3 No waiver of any condition of this license is effective
unless made in writing by the copyright holder.
15.4 Where this license specifies objective tests, those tests
control. A reasonable-person standard applies only where
objective tests are specified as fallbacks or where objective
measurement is impractical.
15.5 Ambiguity shall be resolved in favor of the interpretation
that best preserves free access to Pythos.
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