ASHLEY TRIAL EDITION LICENSE AGREEMENT

Version 4, 2026-09-28. Applies to the Trial Edition of Ashley 3.0.0 and later versions that ship
this text, as distributed through the Visual Studio Code Marketplace and as a .vsix file. You can
read, copy, save and print this text at any time: it is in the file LICENSE.txt inside Ashley, in
the command "Ashley: Read the license terms", in the signing dialog ("Open in editor", "Save a
copy"), and on the Ashley support page. You may ask for a paper copy at the notice address there.

Copyright (c) 2026 Gregory Schwing, trading as OpenSpineConsortium. All rights reserved.

PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT. IT CONTAINS A DISPUTE-RESOLUTION SECTION WITH A NOTICE-AND-CURE
REQUIREMENT, A CLASS-ACTION WAIVER AND A ONE-YEAR LIMIT ON CONTRACT AND WARRANTY CLAIMS (SECTION 19),
A WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL (SECTION 20), A WARRANTY DISCLAIMER (SECTION 12), LIMITS ON LIABILITY AND AN
EXCLUSIVE REMEDY (SECTION 13), AND AN ASSUMPTION OF NAMED RISKS (SECTION 8). THE TRIAL EDITION IS
FREE OF CHARGE; YOU RECEIVE A LICENSE TO USE ASHLEY, NOT THE SOFTWARE ITSELF.

This is an agreement between Gregory Schwing, trading as OpenSpineConsortium ("Licensor", "we"),
and you, the person whose institutional account is approved to use the Trial Edition ("you"). It is
formed when, in the signing dialog Ashley shows before first use, you tick the boxes, type your name
and choose the button labelled "Accept and Continue". Ashley records the version of this text you
accepted, its hash, the time, what you ticked and the name you typed, and keeps a copy of the text
for you. If you do not agree, choose "Decline" and do not use Ashley.

1. WHAT ASHLEY IS

"Ashley" means the Visual Studio Code extension of that name, its command-line tool, its MCP
server, the scripts it installs in your own computing account ("the grid scripts"), its
documentation, and updates Licensor provides. "Trial Edition" means the edition this agreement
covers: free of charge during the evaluation period, for persons whose institutional account
Licensor has approved. "Full Edition" means the paid edition, if Licensor offers one, governed by the
separate Ashley Full Edition License Agreement, which you accept only if you choose to register a
Full Edition key. "Access key" means the signed text beginning "ASHLEY1." that Licensor's access
service issues in your name after your institutional sign-in; it states an edition, an end date and
a license id. "Named Dependencies" are the outside parties and conditions listed in section 7.

2. YOUR LICENSE, AND WHAT IT IS NOT

(a) Subject to this agreement, Licensor grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable,
non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the Trial Edition, free of charge, during
the evaluation period (section 9(a)), on computers you use and in computing accounts you are
authorised to use, for your own research and study.

(b) Ashley is licensed, not sold. You receive this license and no ownership of the software. The
license can end as this agreement says (sections 3 and 9). All rights not granted are reserved.

3. APPROVAL, ACCESS KEYS AND WITHDRAWAL

(a) The Trial Edition is available only to persons whose Wayne State AccessID Licensor has
approved. Approval is requested on the Ashley support site and may be refused or withdrawn at any
time, with or without reason. After you sign in with your institutional account, Ashley obtains an
access key in your name from Licensor's access service; Ashley checks the key against that sign-in
on every use and refuses to work without a match. A copy of Ashley with no valid key for the person
using it does not work.

(b) Your key is for you alone. Do not share, publish, transfer or sell it, and do not use a key issued
to someone else.

(c) No payment is taken for the Trial Edition, nothing converts automatically into a paid license,
and no charge follows its end. Ashley contains the code that enforces keys and their end dates; you
may not disable, remove or work around it.

(d) Licensor may withdraw a key that has been shared, misused, issued in error or obtained by
misrepresentation, or whose holder's approval has been withdrawn. Ashley checks keys against a
signed list of withdrawn keys.

4. YOUR ACCOUNTS AND THE TERMS THAT COME WITH THEM

Ashley works with accounts and systems that are yours or your institution's, not Licensor's. You
represent that you are the sole holder of, and authorised to use, each account Ashley touches, and
you agree to use Ashley only in compliance with each of the following, as amended from time to time:

(a) your institution's rules for its computing systems, including for Wayne State University the
Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources policy (UP 00-1), the HPC Grid policies and the
student or employee rules that apply to you; in particular, no process may be run on a login node,
and jobs must carry a wall-time limit;

(b) Anthropic's Consumer Terms of Service, Usage Policy and the Claude Code terms, for your Claude
account: one person, one account; no sharing of credentials; no use of another person's account;

(c) GitHub's Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policies, for your GitHub account and token;

(d) Hugging Face's Terms of Service and Content Policy, and the conditions of any gated dataset you
accept, for your Hugging Face account and token;

(e) Microsoft's terms for Visual Studio Code and its Marketplace.

Breach of any of them is a breach of this agreement. Licensor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or
acting for Wayne State University, Anthropic, Microsoft, GitHub or Hugging Face, and none of them is
a party to this agreement.

5. WHAT ASHLEY DOES WITH YOUR CREDENTIALS

This section describes the software as shipped, so that you can hold Licensor to it.

(a) Claude. Ashley never reads, stores, copies or relays a Claude credential. You sign in to Claude
Code yourself, through Anthropic's own flow, on your laptop and, once, in a terminal inside your own
grid account; Claude Code keeps its own credential there, and Ashley only starts Claude Code where
that credential already is. Ashley reads Claude Code's yes-or-no answer about whether it is signed
in, nothing more. You use one Claude account, your own.

(b) GitHub and Hugging Face tokens. With your consent in each step, Ashley stores your GitHub token
(obtained through Visual Studio Code's own GitHub sign-in) and your Hugging Face token in your
operating system's credential store, and copies them into a file readable only by you in your own
grid account, so that your own tools there can use them. You can delete them at any time in Ashley
and revoke them at GitHub and Hugging Face.

(c) Your optional Anthropic Console key, if you provide one, is stored the same way and used only
when your subscription window is exhausted.

(d) Your access key and the institutional identity you signed in with (AccessID and e-mail) are
stored on your laptop, and the key is copied to your grid account, where the Ashley worker refuses to
run without it.

(e) None of (a) to (d) is sent to Licensor. Section 10 describes the only things that may be.

6. RESTRICTIONS

Except as this agreement allows, or as applicable law permits despite this section, you must not:

(a) copy Ashley beyond what installation, use and one backup need;
(b) distribute, publish, rent, lease, lend, sublicense or otherwise make Ashley or a key available
    to anyone else;
(c) modify, adapt, translate, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer Ashley, or create works
    derived from it. This does not limit what 17 U.S.C. 1201(f) (interoperability), 17 U.S.C.
    1201(j) (security testing), the security-research exemption in 37 C.F.R. 201.40, or other law
    that cannot be contracted away, allows you to do;
(d) disable, remove, bypass or interfere with the key check, the key's end date, the list of
    withdrawn keys or any other technical measure in Ashley, or help anyone else do so;
(e) remove or alter any copyright, license or other notice in Ashley;
(f) use Ashley to build a product or service that competes with it;
(g) use Ashley in breach of section 4, or for any clinical purpose (section 11), or in any setting
    where its failure could cause injury or damage to property.

Items (b), (c) and (e) are conditions of the license in section 2; the others are promises you
make. Nothing in this agreement restricts you from giving an honest review or assessment of Ashley,
and Licensor claims no right in such a review beyond permission to quote it.

7. NAMED DEPENDENCIES: THE OUTSIDE THINGS ASHLEY NEEDS

Ashley works only while all of the following hold. None of them is within Licensor's control, and
each is disclosed here, in the signing dialog and where Ashley is offered, so that you can decide
with this in mind:

(a) your institution keeps your AccessID, your grid account and your access to its network and HPC
grid, and its policies, firewalls, maintenance windows, queue rules and job limits allow what Ashley
does;
(b) Anthropic keeps offering Claude, Claude Code, its sign-in flow, the subscription plan you hold and
Remote Control on terms that permit your use, and does not change, limit or enforce them against your
account or your pattern of use;
(c) Microsoft keeps Visual Studio Code, its extension interfaces, its Microsoft and GitHub sign-in
providers and the Marketplace listing of Ashley available and compatible, and does not remove or
disable Ashley;
(d) GitHub and Hugging Face keep your accounts, tokens and services available;
(e) you keep your own accounts, do not share them, and keep your sign-ins current;
(f) the internet connections between your laptop, the grid and these services work.

Licensor may also stop offering Ashley, the Trial Edition or a version of either at any time, as
section 9 says.

8. ASSUMPTION OF RISK

You choose to use Ashley knowing section 7. You accept the risk that any Named Dependency fails or
changes, that Ashley stops working as a result, and that work you had running, files you had in a
worker's session, or time you had planned may be lost or delayed. You agree that such an event is
not a defect in Ashley, not a breach of this agreement by Licensor, and gives no claim against
Licensor. This section is one of the terms you specifically acknowledge in the signing dialog. It
does not cover loss caused by Licensor's own gross negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud.

9. EVALUATION PERIOD, SUPPORT, NO FEES, AND THE FULL EDITION

(a) Evaluation period and term. The evaluation period runs from your acceptance until the earliest
of: the end date of your access key (Ashley shows it, and a new key is issued while you remain
approved); the withdrawal of your approval; and the date Licensor ends the Trial Edition, of which
Licensor gives at least 30 days' notice inside Ashley or on the support page. This agreement lasts
for the evaluation period and terminates automatically if you breach it. When it ends you must stop
using Ashley and delete it and your key, unless you have registered a Full Edition key, in which case
that edition's agreement governs. Sections 4 to 8 and 10 to 23, and anything else that by its nature
should survive, survive.

(b) Support. The Trial Edition comes with the documentation and the support page. Licensor may help
with using Ashley as designed, at its discretion and with no response-time promise; support does not
include restoring a Named Dependency.

(c) No fees, no refunds, no remedy for outages. Nothing is owed for the Trial Edition, nothing is
paid, and therefore nothing is refunded. When Ashley stops working because of a Named Dependency, or
because Licensor withdraws approval, changes or ends the Trial Edition, you have no claim against
Licensor; Licensor will, where practical, restore access once the dependency works again.

(d) The Full Edition. If and when Licensor offers the Full Edition, you may continue with the Trial
Edition for as long as Licensor offers it, or register a Full Edition key by accepting the Ashley
Full Edition License Agreement in the signing dialog. Registering a key is your choice; nothing in
this agreement obliges you to buy anything, and no Trial Edition data or record is used to charge
you.

(e) Nothing in this section limits rights that consumer law gives you and does not allow you to
waive, including under the Michigan Consumer Protection Act.

10. ERROR REPORTS, ACCESS RECORDS AND PRIVACY

(a) With your permission, Ashley sends Licensor an error report when one of its own checks fails
or is repaired. A report contains: Ashley, grid-script and Visual Studio Code versions; operating
system and processor family; a random identifier created on your laptop; which checks ran, their
verdicts and timings; the checks' messages and the last error lines of Ashley's own log, with
e-mail addresses, AccessIDs, file paths, hostnames, network addresses, job numbers and anything
token-shaped replaced by placeholders. A report never contains your prompts, your files, your
tokens, your AccessID or e-mail, or environment values. Ashley keeps a copy of every report on your
laptop.

(b) You choose whether reports are sent in the signing dialog, and you can change the choice at any
time in Settings (Ashley: Diagnostics: Share) or with "Ashley: Error reports". Ashley honours Visual
Studio Code's own telemetry setting: when that is off, nothing is sent. Nothing is sent before you
have chosen, and nothing is sent unless a report address is configured, which is named in the
documentation.

(c) Reports are used to find and fix defects in Ashley and to decide what to build next. Reviewing
them and drafting fixes is assisted by AI tools running on Licensor's own accounts; every change
proposed that way is reviewed by a person and tested before release. Reports are kept for at most
365 days, are not sold, and are shared only with processors acting for Licensor.

(d) Access records. An access request on the support site records what you enter there (AccessID,
name, Wayne State e-mail, what you will use Ashley for). Obtaining a key sends Licensor's access
service the sign-in token Visual Studio Code holds for your institutional (Microsoft) account, so
that the service can ask Microsoft who you are; the service records your AccessID, e-mail, name as
Microsoft gives it, the issued key and its dates, and the approval and withdrawal decisions about
you.

(e) Licensor keeps your acceptance record (the version and hash of this text, what you ticked, your
typed name, the time, the install id, the software versions) and your access records for the life of
your access and six years after, to prove the agreement and its terms.

(f) The full privacy statement is in PRIVACY.md, which forms part of this agreement.

11. NOT FOR CLINICAL OR HIGH-RISK USE

Ashley is a research and teaching tool. It is not a medical device and must not be used for
diagnosis, treatment or any other clinical decision, or as a source of medical advice, or in any
setting where its failure could cause injury, death or damage to property.

12. NO WARRANTY

ASHLEY IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, LICENSOR DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT. LICENSOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ASHLEY WILL WORK WITHOUT ERROR OR INTERRUPTION, THAT
IT WILL WORK ON ANY PARTICULAR COMPUTING SYSTEM OR WITH ANY PARTICULAR SERVICE, OR THAT THE NAMED
DEPENDENCIES WILL HOLD. THIS AGREEMENT MAKES NO WRITTEN WARRANTY OF PERFORMANCE. SOME STATES DO NOT
ALLOW SOME OF THESE DISCLAIMERS; TO THAT EXTENT THEY DO NOT APPLY TO YOU.

13. EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

(a) Exclusive remedy. For any claim about Ashley or this agreement, your sole and exclusive remedy
is correction of the problem or, at Licensor's choice, the end of your access, which Licensor can
always perform. No fee is paid for the Trial Edition, so no refund arises.

(b) TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE REMEDY IN (a) IS HELD TO FAIL OF ITS
ESSENTIAL PURPOSE, LICENSOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR
PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF DATA, COMPUTING TIME, RESEARCH RESULTS, ACCOUNT ACCESS, PROFITS OR
GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO ASHLEY OR THIS AGREEMENT, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY
THEORY. LICENSOR'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS TOGETHER IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE FEES YOU
PAID FOR ASHLEY IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM (WHICH FOR THE TRIAL EDITION IS NOTHING) AND
ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS.

(c) These limits do not apply to liability for gross negligence, wilful misconduct, fraud, death or
personal injury, or any other liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

14. INDEMNITIES

(a) You will defend and indemnify Licensor against claims by third parties, and the resulting
losses and reasonable costs, to the extent caused by your breach of section 3, 4 or 6 or by your
misrepresentation under section 4 or 21, and not by Licensor's own negligence or breach.

(b) Licensor will defend you against a third-party claim that Ashley itself (not the open-source
components, and not your use of it in breach of this agreement) infringes that party's copyright or
trade secret, and pay the damages finally awarded, subject to section 13, provided you tell Licensor
promptly and let Licensor control the defence.

15. OWNERSHIP, OPEN-SOURCE COMPONENTS, FEEDBACK AND NAMES

Ashley is protected by copyright and other laws; Licensor and its licensors keep all right, title and
interest in it. Ashley bundles open-source packages listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md; each is
licensed to you under its own license, which this agreement does not limit. Claude Code, Node.js,
the container image and the Visual Studio Code extensions Ashley asks you to install are not part of
Ashley: they are installed from their own sources under their own terms. If you send Licensor
suggestions about Ashley, Licensor may use them without obligation. "Claude" is Anthropic's mark;
Ashley runs Claude Code and is not an Anthropic product. Wayne State University's names and marks
belong to the University.

16. SECURITY AND BREACH NOTICE

Licensor keeps reasonable security measures for the systems that hold access records, acceptance
records and error reports, and will notify you as Michigan law (MCL 445.72) or the law of your state
requires if a breach affects your personal information held by Licensor. This duty is Licensor's and
is not shifted to you by anything else in this agreement.

17. UPDATES AND CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

Updates are distributed through the channel where you obtained Ashley; an extension installed by
hand from a file does not update itself. Each version ships the terms that apply to it. Licensor may
change these terms for future versions. A change is never effective merely by being posted: Ashley
shows a changed agreement in the signing dialog and asks you to accept it again, by the same steps,
before the new version is used. A change to section 19 or 20 applies only to disputes that arise
after you accept it. If you decline a changed agreement, you may keep using the version you accepted
for the rest of your key's term, or stop using Ashley; earlier acceptance records are kept.

18. EXPORT AND SANCTIONS

You must comply with the export-control and sanctions laws that apply to you. You represent that you
are not located in, and will not use Ashley in, a country or region subject to a comprehensive US
embargo, and that you are not on a US government restricted-party list. Ashley contains
cryptography used to verify signatures and to open SSH connections.

19. DISPUTES: NOTICE FIRST, THEN INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS IN MICHIGAN COURTS

Please read this section; it affects how disputes between you and Licensor are resolved and is one
of the terms you specifically acknowledge in the signing dialog.

(a) Notice and 60 days to fix it, before any lawsuit. Before starting any lawsuit or other
proceeding, the party with a claim sends the other a written notice, signed by that party
personally, stating their name, the e-mail in the access record, the install id shown in "Ashley:
License", what the problem is and what outcome they want. Notice to Licensor goes to the notice
address on the Ashley support page; notice to you goes to the e-mail in your access record. The
parties then have 60 days to resolve it in good faith, including one telephone or video call if
either asks. Completing this paragraph is a condition of bringing any claim other than in
small-claims court; a court may decide, at either party's request, whether it was completed. Any
time limit that applies to the claim, including (e), is paused from the day the notice is sent until
the 60 days end. Licensor owes you the same notice and the same 60 days.

(b) Where. Any lawsuit or proceeding arising out of or relating to Ashley, your access or this
agreement is brought only in the state courts sitting in Wayne County, Michigan, or the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction,
except that (1) either party may bring an individual claim that qualifies in the small-claims court
of the county where you live, and (2) you may bring a claim where you live where the law of your
state gives you that right and does not allow it to be waived.

(c) CLASS-ACTION WAIVER. YOU AND LICENSOR EACH AGREE TO BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN
INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE,
CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Every individual remedy the law gives you remains
available to you individually. If a court holds this paragraph unenforceable for a particular claim,
it is severed for that claim only and the rest of this agreement stands.

(d) Fees. Each party pays its own lawyers, except that in a proceeding other than small claims the
court may award the prevailing party its reasonable attorney fees and costs; this does not displace
any award a statute gives you.

(e) One year to bring contract and warranty claims. Any claim for breach of this agreement, or for
breach of warranty, must be brought within one year after it arose, or it is barred; the period is
paused as (a) says. This paragraph does not apply to claims under a consumer-protection statute or
to any claim whose period the law does not allow to be shortened.

(f) Governing law. This agreement and any dispute are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan
without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except that the consumer-protection law of the state where
you live applies to you where that law says it cannot be displaced.

(g) No arbitration in this version. Disputes go to court as this section says. Licensor may offer
arbitration in a future version; it would apply only if you accept that version by the steps in
section 17.

20. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, YOU AND LICENSOR EACH KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A
TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ASHLEY, YOUR ACCESS OR THIS
AGREEMENT. A CLAIM WILL BE DECIDED BY A JUDGE. This section is one of the terms you specifically
acknowledge in the signing dialog.

21. YOUR STATE'S RIGHTS, AND AGE

(a) Nothing in this agreement takes away a right that the law of your state gives you and does not
allow to be waived. No provision of this agreement is void, unenforceable or inapplicable in your
state unless this section or that law says so.

(b) New Jersey residents: sections 12 and 13 do not limit Licensor's liability for its own fraud,
wilful misconduct or gross negligence, or your rights under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act; section
19(e) does not shorten a period that New Jersey law does not allow to be shortened; and section 20
applies only to the extent New Jersey law allows.

(c) California residents: you may make any statement you wish about Ashley (Civil Code 1670.8);
nothing here waives public injunctive relief that California law does not allow to be waived; a
notice under section 19(a) that meets the form of the Consumers Legal Remedies Act counts as the
notice that Act requires; and section 2(b) is the license disclosure Business and Professions Code
17500.6 requires.

(d) Texas and Massachusetts residents: your rights under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act and
chapter 93A, including their notice procedures, are not waived; section 19(a) runs alongside them.

(e) Where a state requires a written waiver in a particular form for a particular right, and this
agreement does not meet that form, that right is not waived.

(f) Age. You must be at least eighteen years old to accept this agreement. A person under eighteen
may use Ashley only if a parent or guardian accepts this agreement on their behalf in the signing
dialog and remains responsible for their use. Licensor does not invoke sections 19 or 20 against a
person who was under eighteen when they accepted without such acceptance.

22. GENERAL

(a) Entire agreement; no reliance. This agreement, with PRIVACY.md and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, is the
entire agreement between you and Licensor about the Trial Edition and replaces any earlier terms for
the versions it covers, and anything said in a listing, a README, a demonstration, a post or a
conversation. If you later register a Full Edition key, the Full Edition agreement replaces this one
from that moment. You have not relied on any statement about Ashley that is not written here or in
the documentation shipped with it. Licensor does not promise any particular result from using
Ashley, any particular availability of a Named Dependency, any continuation of the Trial Edition, or
any particular response time. This paragraph does not exclude liability for fraud.

(b) Severability. If any part of this agreement is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect, subject
to section 19(c).

(c) Assignment. You may not assign this agreement; Licensor may assign it to a successor to the
Ashley business or to an entity Licensor controls, with notice to you.

(d) No waiver; no oral changes. A failure to enforce a term is not a waiver of it. This agreement
changes only as section 17 says.

(e) Notices. Notices to you go to the e-mail in your access record and, where practical, inside
Ashley; notices to Licensor go to the notice address on the Ashley support page.

(f) Electronic records. You agree to receive this agreement, the privacy statement and notices
electronically; you can save and print them, and you may withdraw this consent by stopping use of
Ashley. To read them you need a computer with Visual Studio Code or a web browser. You may ask for a
paper copy at the notice address.

(g) Headings and language. Headings are for convenience. Where this agreement is translated, the
English text governs.

23. CONTACT

Questions about access: the Ashley support page, which also carries the request form and the notice
address for section 19(a).