Terms
Software Licensing
What buying a Ghostlight source-code kit actually licenses you to do — and what it doesn't.
Clarity First
This is source-available software, not open source
When you buy Ghostlight Basic, Ghostlight Plus+, a Ghostlight Premium commissioned build, or a Custom Build, you're buying a license to deploy and run that source code — for yourself, on your own infrastructure. You are not buying the copyright, and you are not receiving an open-source (MIT/GPL/Apache-style) license to redistribute, resell, or sublicense the code. Sirenwave Studios retains ownership of the underlying software.
Your License
What's permitted
- Deploy and run the purchased kit on infrastructure you control (your own Railway account, your own server, or a local machine) for your own personal or, where the correct commercial license was purchased, business use.
- Modify your own copy for your own use — customize personality, memory, integrations, and the dashboard as you like.
- Use the companion you build with it, including talking to it, deploying it to your own Discord/Telegram, and connecting your own provider accounts.
The Line
What's not permitted
- Redistributing, sharing, reselling, or sublicensing the source code, a deployment package, or a container/environment snapshot containing it — to anyone, in any form, free or paid — without a separate commercial or resale license from Sirenwave Studios.
- Publishing the source code, a deployment archive, or a snapshot of a running instance (yours or anyone else's) in a public or semi-public location — a public repo, a file-sharing link, a marketplace listing, and so on.
- Using the software to build a competing product for resale, or offering "Ghostlight-as-a-service" to third parties, without a commercial license (see Custom Builds for commercial/resale licensing options).
- Removing or altering copyright notices, attribution, or license terms embedded in the software.
- Accessing another customer's deployment, or Sirenwave's own systems, without authorization.
If The Line Gets Crossed
How this is actually enforced
Unauthorized copying, redistribution, or resale
Downloading, copying, or redistributing the source code, a deployment package, or a container/environment snapshot outside the terms above is a breach of your license and, depending on the circumstances, copyright infringement. Sirenwave Studios may terminate the license of anyone who does this, pursue civil legal action for damages and injunctive relief, and issue DMCA (or equivalent) takedown notices against any platform hosting an unauthorized copy.
Unauthorized access
Separately: gaining access to a system, deployment, or snapshot you were never authorized to access in the first place — for example, breaking into someone's private server rather than simply misusing something you were legitimately given — can constitute a computer-crime offense under applicable law. Sirenwave Studios may report suspected unauthorized access to the relevant platform (Railway, GitHub, etc.) and to law enforcement. To be precise about what that means: Sirenwave Studios is not a prosecutor and cannot itself bring criminal charges against anyone — that decision sits with the relevant law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities following any report, not with us.
Provenance
Public architecture diagrams and preview materials for Sirenwave Studios' products — including Ghostlight and Alethyra — carry a visible and embedded copyright notice. This doesn't stop copying by itself, but it makes provenance easy to establish if it's ever disputed.
Related
Where the rest of this lives
- Terms of Sale — what you're buying and how the transaction works.
- Refund Policy — the cooling-off window and how refunds work.
- Alethyra Licensing — Alethyra's separate PolyForm Noncommercial terms.
- Self-Hosted Deployment Notice — where Sirenwave's responsibility ends and yours begins.
- Security & Responsible Disclosure — how to report a security issue instead of exploiting it.
This page describes Sirenwave Studios' licensing intent in plain language and is not a substitute for the full license agreement, and not legal advice. As the studio grows, this page and the underlying license terms are intended to be reviewed by a solicitor.