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Software Licence Agreement

In short: free to use on as many machines as you like, including for work you are paid for and work inside a company. Not open source — you may not redistribute it or host it as a service for other people. Your own code and prompts are untouched by any of this.

1. The licence you get

You may install and use Rochet ("the Software"), free of charge, on any number of machines you own or control, for any purpose — including work you are paid for and work done inside a company.

This licence is non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable as described in section 6.

2. What you may not do

You may not:

redistribute, resell, sublicense, rent, or lease the Software, or include it in anything you distribute;
host the Software as a service for people outside your organisation, whether or not you charge for it;
reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, except to the extent that this restriction is unenforceable under applicable law;
remove or obscure any copyright, licence, or attribution notice; or
use the name "Rochet" to endorse or promote anything without written permission.

Running the Software on your own machines, for your own or your employer's work, is not "hosting it as a service".

Any of these becomes permitted if the copyright holder says so in writing. Nothing else does, and no one else can grant it.

3. What stays ours

The Software is licensed, not sold. All right, title, and interest in it, including all intellectual property rights, remain with the copyright holder. Nothing in this agreement transfers ownership of anything.

4. Your code is yours

Rochet operates on your repositories, your prompts, and your source code. None of that is ours, and this licence claims no rights over any of it. What the Software sends anywhere is described in the README under Telemetry — it is a count of starts, it is anonymous, and it can be turned off.

5. Other people's software

The Software depends on, and its user interface includes, third-party components under their own licences. They are listed in NOTICE.md, and your use of them is governed by their terms rather than these.

In particular, Rochet requires Anthropic's Claude Code and the Claude Agent SDK, which are licensed by Anthropic PBC under their own terms. Rochet does not redistribute either, does not provide access to any model, and does not carry any credentials of yours or ours. Your use of Claude is between you and Anthropic.

6. Ending it

This licence ends automatically if you breach it. You may end it at any time by uninstalling the Software. Sections 3, 7, and 8 survive.

7. 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.

Rochet runs autonomous agents that write to your files and to your git repositories, and it can merge branches and delete worktrees at your instruction. You are responsible for your own backups and for reviewing what it does. Use it on work you can recover.

8. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY — INCLUDING LOST WORK, LOST DATA, OR LOST PROFITS — ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR ITS USE.