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LEGAL FRAMEWORK

Terms of Use

Last Updated: May 23, 2026

Welcome to the NormalGravity FOSS portal. These Terms of Use cover your interactions with our landing website (`normalgravity.com`) and outline the legal licensing architecture that protects the open-source community code.

1. GNU GPLv3 Codebase Licensing

All source code repositories, compiled packages, extensions, and build assets produced under the NormalGravity project are distributed under the **GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)**.

  • Freedom to Modify & Redistribute: You are fully authorized to copy, fork, compiled, and distribute customized revisions of the software, provided all modifications are fully open-sourced under the same GPLv3 copyleft terms.
  • No Proprietary Relicensing: You may not bundle the core system binaries inside closed-source proprietary programs or gate the base IDE behind subscription licensing.

2. FOSS Essential Legal Shield (Disclaimer of Warranties)

To safeguard individual contributors, volunteers, and repository maintainers from liability, the compiled editor program is distributed completely WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES:

BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

3. Limitation of Liability

This is standard in all FOSS structures. Neither the core developer team nor any repository contributors will be held liable for standard, incidental, or logic-failure damages:

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR REDISTRIBUTES THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

4. Acceptable Website Usage

By interacting with our release notification forms:

  • You agree to provide a valid, active email address owned by you.
  • You agree not to spam, scrape, or perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on our subscription email endpoints.
  • We reserve the right to remove invalid email formats or duplicate spam entries from our release notification logs without notice.

5. Crowdfunding Support and Contributions

Financial backing provided through Patreon or other third-party crowdfunding sites constitutes a voluntary gift to support general FOSS systems development. Contributions do not establish a commercial contract, equity ownership, or rights to feature governance.

6. Revisions to Terms

We may update these terms as our FOSS governance model matures. Any changes will be recorded transparently in our public repository commit logs, with modified parameters published directly on this legal page.