Legal & Licensing
Whiskers AI is source-visible commercial software built for local-first AI workflows.
Overview
Whiskers AI is designed around transparency, local ownership, inspectability, and user control.
Unlike traditional cloud AI platforms, Whiskers operates locally on systems controlled by the user and does not require hosted AI infrastructure.
The software is distributed as source-visible commercial software.
Whiskers AI is available for personal use and evaluation. Organizations interested in business, government, educational, or enterprise deployment should contact Chippie Bear Industries regarding commercial licensing options. Official releases, branding, and redistribution rights remain controlled by Chippie Bear Industries, LLC.
Legal Documents
What You Are Allowed To Do
- Use Whiskers for personal use
- Evaluate Whiskers for organizational suitability
- Inspect the source code
- Modify the software for personal or evaluation use
- Create private local forks
- Experiment with runtime behavior and customization
- Create reasonable backup copies
Commercial Licensing
Business, government, educational, and enterprise deployments may require a commercial license.
Commercial licensing, support, training, consulting, and custom development services are available through Chippie Bear Industries, LLC. Please contact us for licensing information.
Restricted Uses
- Redistributing Whiskers without permission
- Selling Whiskers or modified versions of Whiskers
- Operating Whiskers as a commercial service without an appropriate commercial license
- Removing attribution or claiming authorship
- Publicly distributing modified builds as official releases
- Using Whiskers branding or logos without permission
Local-First Design
Your session logs, summaries, canon files, contracts, prompts, and runtime data remain under your control.
Whiskers is designed for local-first operation and does not intentionally upload user runtime data to Chippie Bear Industries, LLC servers.
No Warranty
Whiskers AI is provided \"as is\", without warranty of any kind. Use at your own risk.
Part of the S4 Ecosystem
Whiskers is part of the growing S4 ecosystem.
The project incorporates S4-derived capsule technology and continuity concepts to organize knowledge, behavioral instructions, summaries, and supporting context into reusable components.
Whiskers represents a practical implementation of S4 concepts focused on AI continuity and long-term context management.