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Proprietary, for now

Chitmonk is proprietary software. The app and its source code are not open source, and these pages do not grant a licence to them. The terms of use are the agreement; this page says who owns what.

What is ours

  • The app and its source code. You may use the app. You may not copy, redistribute or resell it, or take it apart, except where the law gives you that right regardless.
  • The name and the look. "Chitmonk", the wordmark and the logo identify Chitmonk and nothing else. Please do not use them, or anything close enough to be confused with them, for your own product, company, domain or account.
  • Chet. The chipmunk, in every mood and every costume, is our drawing. He is not clip art: please do not reuse, redraw, trace or sell him, or train an image generator on him. If you want him for something, such as an article about Chitmonk, ask.
  • These pages. You may link to them, quote from them with credit, and feed them to your own tools and agents so they can work with your meetings. Please do not republish them as your own.

Every right not given here or in the terms of use is kept.

What is yours

Your meetings. Everything you record, write and export with Chitmonk belongs to you. We claim nothing in it, and we never receive it.

What you may build on

  • The file is for you. The .chit format is documented so that you, your tools and your agents can read meetings out of Chitmonk and write meetings into it.
  • Build on the file, not on the app. You may write and distribute software that reads or writes .chit bundles and the other exports, and you may use the JSON Schema, the sample bundle and the two example scripts on these pages freely for that. Please do not present your software as Chitmonk or as made by Chitmonk. Saying that it works with Chitmonk files is fine.
  • The format can change. A bundle says which version it is, and the app refuses what it does not understand rather than guessing. How versions work.

What belongs to others

The app runs speech models and software libraries made by other people, each under its own licence. Those notices are in the app, under Settings, About. The marks of those projects that appear in the app belong to their owners and are shown only to say whose model is running.

"For now"

"For now" means what it says: this may open up later. It has not yet.

Questions: legal@chitmonk.com.