Licence terms
The terms for using Derive, the free edition and the paid licence. Written to be read.
Last updated 8 November 2026
1. Who these terms are between
These terms are between you and Derive Solutions ([REPLACE: legal name and address]) ("we"). Licences are sold by Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record; Lemon Squeezy's terms cover the purchase itself, and these terms cover your use of Derive.
2. Definitions
- Derive: the Derive software, in any edition, including its documentation.
- Free edition: the edition you can download without paying.
- Licensed build: the edition that includes export and Convert, available to licence holders.
- Licence file: the signed file
derive-licence.jsonissued for your order. - Seat: one named person allowed to use Derive with the licence file.
- Update period: one year from the date the licence was issued, shown in the licence file as
updates_until.
3. The free edition
You may download and use the free edition at no charge, [REPLACE: for any purpose, including commercial work / for personal and evaluation use]. It is provided as described in section 9.
4. The paid licence
- We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual licence to use Derive with your licence file, for as many people as your licence has seats.
- Each person covered by a seat may install and use Derive on every machine they personally work on.
- Your licence covers every release dated on or before the end of your update period. You may keep using those releases with every licensed feature for as long as you like. Later releases run as the free edition unless you renew.
- Renewal for a further update period is optional. [REPLACE: renewal price and terms.]
5. What you may not do
- Share your licence file with more people than you have seats, or publish it.
- Remove, bypass or tamper with the licence check.
- Sell, rent or sublicense Derive, or offer it to others as a hosted service.
Open-source components inside Derive stay under their own licences, listed in the NOTICE file that ships with it. Nothing in these terms limits your rights under those licences.
6. Your code
Derive processes your infrastructure code on your own machine. We never receive it, and we claim no rights in it or in the diagrams and conversions you make with Derive.
7. Beta features
Convert is a beta feature. It reports what it could not map, but its output can still be wrong or incomplete. Review converted code before you deploy it.
8. Refunds
You can ask for a full refund within 14 days of purchase, as described in the refund policy. When a refund is made, the licence ends: you must delete the licence file. This is in addition to your rights under consumer law.
9. Warranty
Derive draws what your code declares, which can differ from what is deployed in your cloud account. To the extent the law allows, Derive is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded.
10. Liability
To the extent the law allows, our total liability arising from Derive is limited to the amount you paid for your licence, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or loss of data or profit. We do not limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.
11. Trademarks
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and their service icons, are trademarks of their owners. Derive uses the official icons to label resources and is not endorsed by those companies.
12. Changes and law
We may update these terms for future releases; the version in force when you bought your licence continues to apply to the releases that licence covers. These terms are governed by [REPLACE: governing law and courts].