Licence Agreement

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Parties

Rightsholder (licensor): the author of the NEX1ON project, a private individual, Norway. NEX1ON is the name of the project, not a legal entity.

Licensee: the person who has obtained the NEX1ON engine. Contact: support@nex1on.com.

This is an agreement between the rightsholder ("we") and the person who has obtained the NEX1ON engine ("you"). It is written in plain language, because it is meant to be understood, not just signed. By downloading, installing or using the engine, you accept these terms.

1. What NEX1ON is

NEX1ON is a PHP website engine that is supplied as source code and installed on your hosting. It runs on your side, on your server, with your database. We do not host your site and have no access to it.

2. Who owns what

The rights to the engine's code, design and documentation stay with the rightsholder. Buying a licence does not transfer them to you: you buy the right to use the engine on the terms below, not the engine itself. Your site, its content and its data are yours (see section 7).

3. What the licence gives you

A licence is a key of the form NX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX, which you enter in the panel under "Updates → Licence → Licence key". The key gives you the right to:

• receive updates of the engine and the modules from our server directly in the panel, for the whole term of the licence;
• download release and module archives on this site after signing in with the email address the licence was issued to;
• ask questions in the "Purchases and licences" section of the forum and in the support sections.

4. One licence, one site

A key is issued to a person. One licence covers one working site (one domain), its backups, and one non-public test copy of that same site. A fresh licence is not tied to anything: the first site that comes for an update with this key claims it. A second domain using the same key will not receive updates.

Subdomains of the main domain are covered only if the licence was issued "with subdomains" — the licence card in "Updates → Licence" then reads "example.com and all subdomains". Without that mark, a subdomain counts as a separate site.

Moving to another domain is an ordinary matter: write to us and we will unlink the key from the old domain. A second working site needs a second key — in the shop you buy as many keys as sites: each has its own price and term, and how many you get is up to you.

5. Term

A licence is bought for one year, for three years, or for good. The term runs from the date the key was issued and is shown in the panel under "Updates → Engine". A lifetime licence is our own commitment: updates of the engine and the modules from our server keep coming on that key forever, with no renewal payment.

When the term ends, the engine keeps working: nothing is switched off, nothing is blocked, nothing nags you. The only thing that stops is updates of the engine and the modules from our server. Renewing brings them back.

6. The engine without a key, and our server

Without a key the engine works in full: every bundled module, every theme, the panel, the installer. It is not limited in time or in features. The one thing it cannot do is fetch an update of the engine or the modules from our server. So you can try the engine before buying, and what you buy is updates and support.

The engine never switches itself off and never deletes your data because our server is unreachable, down or gone. The server is needed only for updates and for checking the key; without it the site simply keeps working as it is.

7. What you may do

• Read, study and modify the engine's source code for your own site.
• Write your own modules and themes and install them on your site.
• Make backups, and keep one non-public test copy of your site (see section 4).
• Move the engine to another hosting provider and another domain (see section 4).
• Hire a contractor to install the engine and customise your site. The contractor gets no right to pass the engine on: he or she works on your site under your licence.

Your data, and the modules and themes you wrote yourself, are yours: we make no claim to them.

8. What you may not do

• Pass the engine, parts of it, modules from our server or the licence key on to other people, whether for money or for free.
• Publish the engine's source code or sell it under your own or anyone else's name.
• Remove the mentions of the rightsholder and of NEX1ON from the code. The "Powered by NEX1ON" line in the site footer must not be removed: it has no switch.
• Use one key on several working sites or guess other people's keys.

9. Third-party components

The engine includes components written by other people (for example the code editor and some fonts). They stay under their own licences, and we claim no rights to them. The list, with versions and licence texts, is on the page Third-party licences and in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt file shipped with the engine.

10. Updates

The engine asks our server on its own whether a new version is out, shows the list of changes and waits for you to press the button. Without that press it installs nothing. What is sent to the server during the check is described in the privacy policy.

Before updating, the engine makes a copy of the database by itself; we still advise making your own copy before every update.

11. Support

Support goes through the forum: we answer there, and the answer stays for others. Bugs in the engine we fix in the following releases. Changes to your site, data recovery, hosting setup and custom module development are not part of the licence.

12. Warranties and liability

The engine is supplied as is. We build it carefully and test it before every release, but we cannot promise that it will suit every task and every hosting provider and never fail. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for losses, lost profit or loss of data resulting from using the engine or being unable to use it, and our liability is limited to the amount you paid for the licence. This does not limit rights that the law gives you as a consumer and that cannot be waived by agreement.

13. Termination

If you break these terms — for example, one key is handed out to several sites, or the code is sold under someone else's name — we will first warn you in writing and give you a reasonable time to put it right. Only if the breach is not put right in that time may we disable the key. A disabled key stops unlocking updates; an engine that is already installed keeps working, and your data is not touched.

14. Governing law

This agreement is governed by the law of Norway. If you are a consumer, this does not take away the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you live.

15. Changes to the terms

The terms may change along with the engine. A new version is published on this page; for licences already bought, the terms in force at the time of purchase apply until the end of their term.

16. How to get a key

A licence is bought in the shop on this site. After purchase the key arrives by email at the address you gave, and you enter it in the panel of your site. Questions about buying, renewing and moving: support@nex1on.com.