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Effective Date: 2026-10-25 · Software license
Software License
A license is signed and checked offline, and activation registers each device once with the seller — that is what makes the two-device limit real and revocation possible. After that the tool runs offline; a reset through Support with your order ID frees a slot. This page is the license for every paid Syntax Forge tool, and the Terms of Service point here for it.
What a license grants
- One person. The licensee named on the order. A team needs one license for each person who uses the tool.
- Two devices at a time. To move to a new machine, request a reset through Support with your order ID; it is not a repurchase. Support mail is not connected yet.
- Personal or commercial use, including paid work at your job.
- No expiry. The version you bought keeps working without a subscription, and you may keep backup copies.
What you may not do
- Redistribute the download, installer or archive, in public or inside a company.
- Resell, rent, lend or sublicense the tool or the license.
- Share or publish your key or key file.
- Remove license notices, the key check or any order watermark.
- Use the tool or its code to build a competing product.
Breaking these ends the license for that order, with no refund. A right the law gives you regardless, such as decompiling for interoperability in the EU, still stands.
How a license works, and what it does not enforce
A license file is signed and checked offline, so the software can tell a genuine license from a fake one. Each machine records its own activation. Nothing counts devices across machines and nothing can be revoked offline, so the two-device limit and revocation are license terms, not technical controls. Enforcing them would need per-device signed licenses or an online activation service; neither ships today. This is not DRM, and this website never sees your devices.
Refunds, updates, transfer, warranty
- Refunds. If a paid tool fails to run on a system its page lists as supported and the problem cannot be resolved within 14 days of purchase, you get a full refund through the seller named at checkout. A refund ends the license. EU/UK withdrawal: see the Terms.
- Updates. A license covers one major version, for example every 1.x release, with its minor and patch updates. A new major version is a new purchase; the one you have keeps working.
- Transfer. The license is personal and you may not transfer it yourself. Where the law allows resale, as in the EU (UsedSoft v Oracle, C-128/11), ask through Support with your order ID and the license is reissued in the new owner’s name. General information, not legal advice.
- Warranty. The disclaimer and limitation of liability in the Terms of Service apply.
Free and open-source tools ship under the license in their own repository. See also Finger and release verification.