Terms of use

These terms govern your use of the Emendant website at emendant.com and the change feed service at feed.emendant.com (together, "the Service"). The Emendant command line tool is licensed separately, under the licence distributed with the package; where that licence and these terms both apply to the tool, the licence governs the software and these terms govern the Service.

1. Who we are

The Service is operated by Soham Jain, an individual established in the United Kingdom. Contact: legal@emendant.com. There is no company entity behind the Service at present, and this page is updated if that changes.

2. Using the feed service

The feed service publishes signed, immutable snapshots of the change feed over HTTPS. You may download them, cache them, and use them with Emendant or with your own tooling inside your organisation, at no charge and without registering.

You may not:

• republish, mirror publicly, sell or otherwise redistribute the feed or a substantial part of it;
• use the feed to create, train or populate a competing database, dataset or service;
• request the Service at a rate, or in a pattern, that degrades it for anybody else, including bulk or automated crawling beyond what running Emendant normally does; or
• attempt to circumvent, disrupt or test the security of the Service without permission. The route for asking is the security page.

You may run your own mirror for your own organisation by pointingEMENDANT_FEED_ORIGIN at it. A mirror serves what we signed; it does not make you a publisher of it.

3. Availability

The Service is provided without any commitment to availability, performance or continuity. It may change, be interrupted, or be withdrawn at any time. Emendant is built to survive that: the tool ships with a copy of the feed, keeps the last verified snapshot it fetched, and works offline, so an unreachable feed service degrades what you know rather than stopping your work.

Published snapshots are immutable. A correction is a later snapshot that omits or replaces the entry; nothing already published is edited in place.

4. What the feed claims, and what it does not

Each entry cites the primary source it was written from. The feed describes changes we have verified against published packages, and it is not a complete record of everything that changed in any release. A finding says that code matches a change we described. It does not say that your code will break, and the absence of a finding does not say that an upgrade is safe. A patch is a proposal to be reviewed, tested and accepted by you.

5. Provider names

Provider, package and product names appear on this site and in the feed only to identify the software a change is about. Those names and marks belong to their owners. No affiliation with, or endorsement by, any provider is claimed.

6. Reporting a problem with an entry

If a feed entry is wrong, misleading, or infringes your rights, write to legal@emendant.com with the change id, the release it describes and what is wrong with it. A change id is printed with every finding and can be inspected with emendant explain <change-id>. We aim to acknowledge within five working days. Where a report is upheld, the correction is published as a later snapshot, and the audit record of the original decision is kept so that the correction stays explicable.

7. No warranty

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

8. Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operator is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, data or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with the Service. Nothing here excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.

9. Changes to these terms

These terms are dated at the top. A change is published here with a new date. A change that materially affects what you may do with the Service is also stated in the release notes of the next published version of the tool. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept it; if you do not, stop using the Service and use the bundled feed offline.

10. Governing law

These terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom, you may also bring proceedings in your own jurisdiction.