In plain language

How CrossXCloud is licensed

CrossXCloud is proprietary software, built on open source. Here's what each of those means in practice, and which document governs which part.

Version
1.0
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The app is proprietary, not open source

CrossXCloud Client is owned by Honology. The source is closed, and it isn't available for copying, modification, redistribution, or self-hosting.

That's a deliberate choice, not an oversight - and it doesn't change where your data lives. Your credentials never leave your machine, and your infrastructure stays in your own cloud accounts.

Source licence, sections 2 and 3

Using the app is governed by a different document

The source licence covers the code. It says nothing about your right to run CrossXCloud.

What you can do with the installed application - install it, connect clouds, apply plans, use the Services - is set out in the End User License Agreement. That's the one that applies to you as a user.

Source licence, section 8

Built on open source, and credited

CrossXCloud stands on a large amount of open source software across Go, Rust, and the JavaScript ecosystem. Those components keep their own licences - nothing about ours overrides them.

Every release ships a THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES file listing each component and its required attribution. You'll also find it in the app under Settings → About.

Source licence, section 7

Your work is yours

Our licence covers our software. It claims nothing over what you build with it.

Your infrastructure definitions, canvas layouts, version history, and telemetry data all remain entirely yours.

EULA, clause 8.3

Want to do something the licence doesn't allow?

Embedding CrossXCloud in another product, self-hosting it inside your own network, or licensing parts of it are all things we can discuss - they just need a written agreement rather than an assumption.

Get in touch and tell us what you're trying to do.

Source licence, section 3.2

This page is a summary

It is written for clarity, not for precision, and it is not the agreement itself. Where this summary and the full text differ, the full text governs.

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