Alethyra Licensing

Alethyra — Powered by Blacktide Cognition is licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0, a standardized source-available license published by the PolyForm Project — not something Sirenwave Studios wrote or modified.

SPDX identifier: PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0

The authoritative, standardized terms are published at polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0. That page — not this one — governs authorized noncommercial use, modification, and distribution of the software. This page intentionally doesn't reproduce or paraphrase that text; it links to it and adds the notices below.

Required notices

Copyright © 2026 JC SnowFox. Alethyra — Powered by Blacktide Cognition. All rights reserved except as expressly licensed under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0.

PolyForm Noncommercial covers permitted noncommercial use. No commercial-use license is granted by the standardized terms, and none is implied by repository access, contribution, testing, deployment access, a prior noncommercial copy, or technical interoperability. A separate express written commercial license from JC SnowFox is required before using the software for a purpose outside the permitted noncommercial scope.

Uses that should be reviewed for a separate commercial license include, without limitation:

• Charging customers for access to Alethyra or a product substantially incorporating it.
• Selling hosted Alethyra / Blacktide instances.
• Bundling the software into a paid product or service.
• Using it as part of revenue-generating consulting, managed hosting, or a commercial SaaS offering.
• Selling access to proprietary Blacktide cognition, memory, vector, steering, Inspector, or deployment functionality.

If there's uncertainty about whether a proposed use is permitted under the standardized noncommercial terms, get written permission before relying on it — email jcsnowfox@gmail.com.

What's covered

Any Railway-hosted or Railway-derived project, service, or deployment snapshot; backup; database dump or export; persistent-volume copy or archive; container or deployment image; build artifact; secret-bearing archive; environment-variable export; credential, token, key, or configuration bundle; internal log archive containing protected source, secrets, personal data, or proprietary system information; a restored or cloned copy of any of the above; and any substantially equivalent private deployment artifact, regardless of filename or packaging.

Express written authorization required

No one is authorized to intentionally access, obtain, download, export, clone, restore, copy, transfer, retain, disclose, or use a covered artifact unless JC SnowFox, or someone expressly authorized to act on their behalf, has granted express written permission for that specific access. General repository access, software-license rights, platform membership, a public URL, technical reachability, possession of a link, possession of credentials not issued for that purpose, or knowledge of an endpoint does not constitute that permission.

Unauthorized acquisition doesn't create a license

Unauthorized acquisition of a covered deployment artifact does not grant, imply, expand, or create any copyright license, database-right permission, confidentiality permission, infrastructure-access permission, or right to use material contained in it. An accidentally exposed file, misconfigured service, leaked URL, leaked token, shared credential, cached artifact, or other technical availability does not waive ownership or create consent.

Prohibited without written authorization

• Circumventing or defeating an access control to obtain a covered artifact.
• Using another person's credential, token, session, key, or account to obtain it.
• Exploiting an unintended exposure or configuration error to obtain it.
• Retaining a covered artifact after learning it was obtained without authorization.
• Extracting or using proprietary source code, database content, secrets, credentials, personal data, model configuration, or other protected material from an unlawfully obtained artifact.
• Redistributing, publishing, selling, licensing, uploading, mirroring, or otherwise making an unlawfully obtained covered artifact available to another person.
• Using an unlawfully obtained covered artifact to operate, reconstruct, commercialize, or provide access to a copy of the private deployed system.

Nothing here restricts rights that can't lawfully be restricted, or applicable statutory exceptions.

If this line gets crossed

JC SnowFox reserves all rights and remedies available under applicable law. Where unauthorized acquisition or use is suspected, that can include preserving access logs and other evidence, revoking credentials or platform access, notifying Railway or another affected provider, issuing preservation/cease-and-desist/takedown/infringement notices, seeking civil remedies (injunctive relief, damages, an account of profits, delivery-up, costs), reporting suspected conduct to law enforcement or another competent authority, and cooperating with lawful investigations.

Where the facts satisfy the elements of an offense under applicable law, unauthorized conduct may expose the actor to criminal investigation or prosecution in addition to civil liability — but a private copyright holder doesn't decide whether criminal charges are brought, and this notice doesn't declare every unauthorized download to be legally "theft" or create an offense that doesn't otherwise exist under applicable law. That determination sits with law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities, not with Sirenwave Studios or JC SnowFox.

Found one of these by accident?

Stop accessing it, don't copy or redistribute it, preserve only what's reasonably necessary to report the exposure, and email jcsnowfox@gmail.com. This is the same responsible-disclosure spirit as the sitewide Security & Responsible Disclosure page — reporting it correctly is welcomed, not treated as the violation.

For Alethyra-specific commercial licensing enquiries, requests for written permission, security disclosures, accidental Railway artifact exposure, copyright/attribution questions, or private deployment-access questions, email jcsnowfox@gmail.com directly. For everything else about Sirenwave Studios, hello@sirenstudios.tech remains the general contact. Please don't post secrets, tokens, credentials, or private snapshot contents anywhere public — email them directly instead.