Terms

1. What KubeTitan is

KubeTitan is a desktop application for administering Kubernetes clusters, distributed as source code and as releases from this repository, together with this website. It is published by Dotmethod ("we", "us"), based in Denmark.

There is no hosted service, no backend API and no user account. The app runs on your machine and connects directly to clusters you already have access to.

2. Licence

KubeTitan is free software under the Apache License 2.0. That licence, not this page, is what grants you your rights: you may use, modify, distribute and sell the software, including commercially, provided you keep the notices and the licence text and state significant changes. Sections 3 and 4 of that licence also cover the patent grant and the trademark carve-out.

If anything on this page conflicts with the licence, the licence wins. It is in LICENSE.

3. No fees, no accounts, nothing to buy

Earlier versions of KubeTitan were sold under a commercial licence, with trials, subscriptions and licence keys. That is no longer the case: there is nothing to purchase, no subscription to cancel, no seat to count and no account to create, so there are no payments, renewals or refunds to describe.

4. Your responsibilities

KubeTitan is a client for systems you are responsible for, so:

• Authorization is yours. You must have permission to access every cluster you connect it to. The app will do whatever your kubeconfig permits, including deleting resources, and that authority is yours, not ours.
• Credentials are yours to protect. The app reads tokens and certificates from your kubeconfig and keeps them in memory. Securing that file, those credentials and the machine they sit on is your job.
• Cluster policy applies. Your organisation's rules about which tools may touch production clusters, and what may be logged, are yours to follow.
• Backups are yours. Operations you run through the app change real infrastructure. Take the backups you would take anyway.

5. Acceptable use

Use the app only against systems you are authorized to access, and in line with the law where you are. Do not use it to gain unauthorized access, to disrupt systems you do not own or operate, or to distribute malware.

6. Trademarks and branding

The Apache licence covers code, not identity. The KubeTitan name and logo are trademarks of Dotmethod and may not be used in a way that suggests your fork or product is ours, or is endorsed by us. Fork it, rename it, ship it. Just do not pass it off as KubeTitan.

7. Third-party components

KubeTitan is built on open-source crates, each under its own licence, and talks to Kubernetes API servers governed by your cluster's own terms. Those licences and terms continue to apply to their respective parts.

8. No warranty

KubeTitan is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, as set out in section 7 of the Apache License 2.0. It is an administration tool for production infrastructure; test it against your own clusters before relying on it.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Dotmethod is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, revenue, data, uptime or goodwill, arising from your use of KubeTitan. Because the software is provided free of charge, our total aggregate liability is limited to EUR 100.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including for intent or gross negligence, or your statutory rights as a consumer where they apply.

10. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Denmark. Disputes are subject to the courts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Before starting proceedings, write to us and leave it 30 days. Most things are easier to fix in an email.

11. Changes

These Terms may be updated as the project changes. The date at the top of this page says when they last did. Continued use after a change means the current version applies.

12. Contact

Anything at all: [email protected]. Bugs and feature requests are better as issues.