BroadPaper — Software Licence

Copyright (c) 2026 Codingbadger Creative Limited, trading as BroadPaper.
Registered in England and Wales, company number 16896863.
hello@broadpaper.com

This is proprietary software, not open source. It is free to evaluate, with
every feature enabled and no trial clock, and requires a paid Licence for
production use. The full agreement is the Terms and Conditions at
https://www.broadpaper.com/legal/terms/ ; this notice is the part of it you need
in the package, and where the two differ, those Terms prevail.

Version of 27 September 2026.


1. DEFINITIONS

"Software" means the BroadPaper packages published by us — @broadpaper/core,
@broadpaper/blocks, @broadpaper/renderer, @broadpaper/forme, @broadpaper/pdf,
@broadpaper/server, @broadpaper/license, @broadpaper/editor, @broadpaper/react,
@broadpaper/angular and BroadPaper.Client — together with their documentation
and updates.

"Licence" means a signed licence certificate we have issued to your
Organisation, and the rights granted with it. A Licence belongs to the
Organisation, not to an individual.

"Evaluation Licence" means a free, time-limited licence certificate we issue
under section 2. It is not a paid Licence.

"Product" means an application your Organisation builds that incorporates the
Software.

"Internal User" means someone who works for your Organisation: an employee, an
officer, or a contractor engaged by you and working under your direction.
"External User" means anyone else, including your customers, their staff, your
partners and the public.

"Licence Year" means the twelve months from the date a paid Licence is issued
or renewed.


2. EVALUATION

You may install and use the Software free of charge, worldwide and
non-exclusively, for development, testing and evaluation. Every feature is
enabled, nothing expires, and there is no limit on how long you take.

Documents generated without a paid Licence carry a visible BroadPaper
evaluation mark. This grant does not permit production use, whether or not you
charge for it and whether or not the mark is present in the output. Removing,
suppressing or circumventing the mark does not make unlicensed production use
permitted.

We may issue your Organisation an Evaluation Licence, which lets the Software
generate documents without the evaluation mark for a limited period, currently
sixty days. It is part of this evaluation grant and gives no further rights: it
is for development, testing and evaluation only, and does not permit
production use. We issue at most one Evaluation Licence to each Organisation
and to each person, and we may refuse to issue one, or revoke one by telling
you, at our discretion. It ends on the expiry date it records, with no grace
period, after which documents carry the evaluation mark again. We may extend
one at our discretion by issuing a replacement. Section 3 does not apply to an
Evaluation Licence.


3. PAID LICENCES

Subject to payment, we grant your Organisation a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, worldwide licence to install and use the Software in
Products, in any number of Products and for an unlimited number of users,
developers, documents and renders. Two types are offered, unlocking identical
software and differing only in who the resulting Product may be made available
to:

  Internal    — Products for your Organisation's Internal Users only.
  SaaS / OEM  — the above, and Products made available to External Users:
                software you sell, host, embed, ship or otherwise make
                available outside your Organisation.

Because the Software cannot and does not detect how it is deployed, which type
you need is determined by the use you actually make of it, not by what the
software permits.

A Licence runs for the Licence Year. When it ends you may continue to use any
version of the Software released during a Licence Year you paid for,
indefinitely and under this notice, but you will receive no further updates or
support unless you renew, and the Software stops rendering without the
evaluation mark once the certificate's grace period has passed.


4. REDISTRIBUTION

You may redistribute the Software only as a compiled, integrated part of a
Product. You may not distribute it on its own, offer it as a component for
others to build with, or make its functionality available as a stand-alone
report-design service. The end users of your Product do not need their own
Licence.


5. LICENCE CERTIFICATES

A Licence is a cryptographically signed certificate recording your
Organisation, its Licence type and its expiry date. The Software verifies it
locally, against a public key compiled into the package, and makes no network
call to do so.

It is not a secret, and we do not ask you to treat it as one: it may appear in
your application's configuration, its build and its distributed code. You may
not share it with anyone outside your Organisation for their own use, alter it,
or interfere with the Software's licence checking or its evaluation mark.


6. RESTRICTIONS

Except as expressly permitted above, you may not: copy, modify, translate or
create derivative works of the Software beyond what integrating it into your
Product requires; reverse engineer it beyond what applicable law allows; remove
any proprietary notice; use it to build a competing report designer; or use it
in breach of any law, including to generate documents intended to deceive.

We own the Software and everything in it that is not third-party material.
Nothing here transfers ownership. Your templates, your data, your themes and
the documents your Product produces are yours; we claim no rights in them and,
because the Software makes no calls to us, we never receive them.


7. THIRD-PARTY COMPONENTS

The Software incorporates third-party components under their own licences.
These are listed in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md file distributed with each
package — including the fonts and Rust crates statically linked into the Forme
engine, which no dependency manifest reveals. Those licences govern those
components.


8. NO WARRANTY, AND LIABILITY

Except for the limited ninety-day warranty in the Terms, the Software is
provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including
merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do
not warrant that the Software is error-free, or that a document it produces
meets any regulatory or legal requirement that applies to you: that remains
your responsibility.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss of profit,
revenue, business, data or goodwill, or for any indirect or consequential
loss. Our total liability in any twelve-month period is limited to the amount
you paid us in that period, or $100 if you paid nothing. Nothing here limits
liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for
anything else that cannot be limited by law.

This notice is governed by the law of England and Wales.


Questions, and licence purchases: hello@broadpaper.com
Pricing and the full Terms: https://www.broadpaper.com/legal/terms/