Legal & Licensing

Overview

JCOOP is a journal‑centric provenance tool created by Chippie Bear Industries. It is distributed for evaluation and research purposes under a permissive source‑visible license. JCOOP is not a backup product and should not be relied upon as a sole means of safeguarding data.

This software is experimental. It has not been certified for production use and comes without any warranty or guarantee of fitness for a particular purpose. Use it at your own risk in controlled environments.

Permitted Uses

• Evaluate JCOOP for personal or internal research.
• Inspect the source code to understand how JCOOP works.
• Create private forks for experimentation.
• Use JCOOP in lab or test environments.

Restricted Uses

• Using JCOOP as a replacement for backups or snapshots.
• Deploying JCOOP as a commercial service without permission.
• Rebranding or redistributing modified versions as official releases.
• Claiming authorship of JCOOP or its branding.

If you have questions about licensing, please contact us.