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BETA TEST LICENSE AGREEMENT

Product: Amalgative Redline Beta ("the Software")

Licensor: Amalgative LLC, an Oregon limited liability company ("Licensor," "we," "us")

Version: Beta

Effective Date: the date you first install or launch the Software

READ THIS AGREEMENT BEFORE INSTALLING. By installing, launching, or using the Software, you agree to be bound by these terms. If you do not agree, do not install the Software and delete any copies you have received.

1. What This Is

The Software is a pre-release PDF markup and document review application provided for evaluation and testing only. It is not a finished commercial product. It is expected to contain defects, incomplete features, and behavior that may change without notice.

This Agreement governs only the beta version. It does not grant you any license to any commercial release of the Software. It covers only Amalgative Redline. Amalgative Draft and Amalgative Sequence are separate products licensed under their own separate agreements, and nothing here grants you any right to use them.

2. License Grant

Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, Licensor grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the Software on devices you own or control, solely for the purpose of internal evaluation and testing and providing feedback to Licensor.

No other rights are granted. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Licensor.

3. Term and Expiration

This license begins on the Effective Date and terminates automatically on the earlier of:

a) 120 days after the release date of the specific build you are using;

b) the general commercial release of the Software;

c) the date Licensor notifies you that the beta program has ended; or

d) the date Licensor revokes your access, which Licensor may do at any time, for any reason or no reason, without liability.

Each build of the Software contains a time limitation and will cease to operate approximately 120 days after that build was released. The Software will warn you before this happens and will offer to update itself to a current build. You acknowledge this limitation and agree not to circumvent it.

Upon termination you must immediately stop using the Software, uninstall all copies, and destroy or return any materials provided to you. Sections 5 through 12 survive termination.

4. No Charge, and Voluntary Support

The Software is provided to you free of charge. No license key, activation code, or payment is required to install or use it during the beta program.

Licensor may accept voluntary financial contributions (for example, through a third-party platform such as Ko-fi). Any such contribution is a gift. It is not a purchase of the Software, not payment for any license, and not consideration for this Agreement. A contribution grants you:

no license beyond the one granted in Section 2;
no entitlement to any commercial release, upgrade, discount, or credit;
no priority for support, features, or bug fixes;
no ownership, equity, or refund right.

Nothing in this Section obliges Licensor to provide anything in return for a contribution.

5. Restrictions

You may not, and may not permit any third party to:

Use the Software for production work, client deliverables, or any commercial purpose;
Copy, distribute, sublicense, rent, lease, sell, or otherwise transfer the Software;
Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive source code, file format specifications, or algorithms from the Software, except to the extent this restriction is unenforceable under applicable law;
Modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works of the Software;
Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, or proprietary notice;
Circumvent, disable, or tamper with any license check, expiration mechanism, or usage limitation;
Use the Software to build or assist in building a competing product.

6. Confidentiality

The Software is pre-release and unfinished. Licensor asks that you bear that in mind in anything you say about it publicly, and that you make clear you are describing a beta.

You may take and share screenshots, describe your experience of the Software, and publish reviews, benchmarks, performance tests and comparisons against other products. Licensor does not require consent for any of that.

Licensor asks only that you say which build you tested — every build displays its version in its title bar and under Help ▸ About — because a measurement taken against one beta build says little about another. That is a request, not a condition of this licence.

Any non-public information Licensor gives you outside the Software itself — roadmaps, unreleased plans, pricing under consideration, other testers' identities, or anything Licensor identifies as confidential when it is given to you — is Licensor's confidential information. You agree to keep that information confidential, to use it only for the purposes of this Agreement, and to protect it with at least the care you use for your own confidential information.

This obligation does not apply to information that is or becomes public through no fault of yours, that you already lawfully possessed, or that you are legally compelled to disclose, provided you give Licensor prompt notice where permitted.

Confidentiality obligations survive for two (2) years after termination, or until Licensor makes the information public, whichever comes first.

7. Feedback

"Feedback" means any bug report, error log, suggestion, feature request, idea, comment, design proposal, or other information you provide to Licensor about the Software.

You grant Licensor a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, and commercially exploit all Feedback, in any product and for any purpose, without restriction, attribution, accounting, or compensation to you.

You represent that you have the right to provide such Feedback and that it does not include the confidential information or intellectual property of any third party or of your employer without authorization.

8. What the Software Sends, and What It Does Not

The Software contains no telemetry. It does not report your usage, your documents, your configuration, or your activity to Licensor. There is no analytics, no crash uploading, and no background reporting of any kind.

The Software makes exactly one category of outbound network request, and only for the purpose described:

Update checks. To tell you when a newer build is available, the Software contacts Licensor's update service. That request contains only the product, its update channel, your operating system and processor type, the name and version of the software library that makes the request, and — as with any internet request — your IP address. It does not include the version you are running, how the Software was installed, your name, your email address, your documents, or any information about your use of the Software.

The Software checks when it starts and then every four hours. You can turn update checks off in Settings at any time.

Information you enter when accepting this Agreement. When you first launch the Software you may optionally supply a name and email address. This is stored only on your own computer, in the Software's configuration file. It is not transmitted to Licensor. Leaving those fields blank does not restrict your use of the Software.

Files you send us. If you choose to send Licensor a file to diagnose a problem, Licensor will treat it as your confidential information and use it only to diagnose the issue you reported. Licensor never collects the contents of your drawings, documents, or files by any automatic means.

9. Your Data and File Safety

Work on copies. Never open your only copy of a file in the Software.

The Software may fail, hang, crash, or write corrupted output. It may fail to open files it previously saved, and its file format may change between beta builds without a migration path.

You are solely responsible for backing up your data. Licensor has no obligation to recover, restore, or reconstruct any file, drawing, project, or setting lost or damaged in connection with the Software.

10. Ownership

The Software is licensed, not sold. Licensor and its licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Software, including all copyrights, patents, trade secrets, trademarks, file formats, and other intellectual property rights. You acquire no ownership interest of any kind.

Third party open source components included in the Software are governed by their own license terms, listed under Help ▸ Acknowledgements in the Software and at https://amalgative.com/legal/acknowledgements/. To the extent those terms conflict with this Agreement, they control as to those components.

11. No Warranty

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LICENSOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

LICENSOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR FREE, SECURE, COMPATIBLE WITH ANY SYSTEM, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. LICENSOR HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, UPDATES, MAINTENANCE, OR ANY COMMERCIAL RELEASE.

12. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LICENSOR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, GOODWILL, DATA, FILES, DRAWINGS, OR WORK PRODUCT, OR COST OF SUBSTITUTE SOFTWARE, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SOFTWARE, REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY AND EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

LICENSOR'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT EXCEED TWENTY U.S. DOLLARS ($20.00). For the avoidance of doubt, a voluntary contribution under Section 4 is a gift and is not an amount paid for the Software.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so portions of the above may not apply to you. In that case, liability is limited to the smallest amount permitted by law.

13. No Compensation

Participation in the beta program is voluntary and unpaid. You are not an employee, agent, partner, or contractor of Licensor. Nothing in this Agreement creates an employment, agency, joint venture, or partnership relationship.

14. Compliance and Export

You represent that you are at least 18 years old and have authority to enter this Agreement, including on behalf of any organization you represent. You will comply with all applicable laws, including U.S. export control and sanctions laws, and will not use the Software in any prohibited jurisdiction.

15. General

Governing law. This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, without regard to conflict of law principles. Exclusive venue lies in the state and federal courts located in Multnomah County, Oregon, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

Entire agreement. This is the entire agreement between you and Licensor regarding the beta Software and supersedes all prior understandings.

Amendment. Licensor may modify this Agreement for future builds. Continued use after notice constitutes acceptance. Where a build presents you with a materially changed agreement, you will be asked to accept it before that build runs.

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect and the unenforceable provision is reformed to the minimum extent necessary.

No waiver. Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.

Assignment. You may not assign this Agreement. Licensor may assign it freely.

Injunctive relief. You acknowledge that breach of Sections 5, 6, or 10 would cause irreparable harm for which money damages are inadequate, and that Licensor may seek injunctive relief without posting bond.

Contact: support@amalgative.com