Timbrel Licence Agreement

# DRAFT for review by Bezalel Instruments' lawyer before public release. Modelled on the Kinnor licence agreement. Remove this line once approved.

TIMBREL SOFTWARE LICENCE AGREEMENT

Bezalel Instruments, LLC
Effective 11 November 2026

Please read this agreement before you install or use the software. By installing, copying, activating or using it, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not install or use the software.

1. WHO AND WHAT THIS COVERS

This is an agreement between you (the individual person who registers for and uses the software) and Bezalel Instruments, LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company ("Bezalel Instruments", "we", "us").

"The software" means Timbrel, the drum pattern sequencer, in every format we distribute (VST3 plug-in, Audio Unit plug-in and standalone application), together with its built-in sounds, its style library, its documentation, and any updates we provide. An update comes under this agreement unless it arrives with a different one.

2. YOUR LICENCE

We licence the software to you; we do not sell it. Timbrel is provided free of charge. Subject to this agreement, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence:

(a) Registration. To use the software you must register at https://bezalelinstruments.com/timbrel with your first name, last name and email address. We then send you a personal licence key. You must give accurate details when you register.

(b) One licence per person. Each licence key is for one named person. You may not register more than once, register on behalf of someone else, or let anyone else use your key.

(c) Up to three computers. You may install and activate the software on up to three (3) computers at a time, each owned or controlled by you. To move it to another computer, deactivate it on one of the three first (from the software's About panel).

(d) Use. You may use the software for making, recording, producing, performing and teaching music, privately or commercially.

You may make one backup copy of the installers or downloaded files.

3. WHAT YOU MAKE WITH IT

The music, patterns, MIDI files, recordings and performances you create with the software are yours. You may use the software's built-in sounds and the rhythms of its style library in them freely and without royalties, including in commercial releases, film, games, streams, broadcasts, live performance and worship services.

You may not distribute the built-in sounds or the style library themselves on their own or in a form that lets others use them as sounds or styles: for example as sample libraries, drum kits, loop packs, style or pattern collections, or as part of another instrument, library or product that competes with the software. A sound or rhythm used as part of a finished piece of music is not distributed on its own.

4. RESTRICTIONS

Except as this agreement allows or as applicable law permits despite this limitation, you may not:

- copy (except as section 2 allows), redistribute, publish, share, upload or make the software available to anyone else, including on websites, file sharing services or bundled with other products;
- sell, resell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense or otherwise transfer the software, a licence key or your licence to anyone else, even free of charge;
- modify, translate or make works derived from the software;
- reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it;
- remove, bypass, disable or interfere with its licence check or its activation, or share, publish, sell or lend licence keys;
- remove or change any copyright, trademark or other notice in it.

5. ACTIVATION AND THE INTERNET

The software must be activated over the internet with your email address and licence key, and checks in with our licence server from time to time (at least once every 30 days) to keep working. Until it is activated, the software makes no sound and sends no MIDI. What is sent, and why, is described in our Privacy Policy (PRIVACY-POLICY.txt, included with the software, and at https://bezalelinstruments.com/privacy).

If our licence server is unavailable, a copy that is already activated keeps working until its current check-in period ends. We will make reasonable efforts to keep the licence server available.

6. THIRD-PARTY COMPONENTS

The software includes components made by others, listed with their licences in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md and THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt, included with the software. Each of those is licensed to you under its own licence. Nothing in this agreement limits any right those licences give you in those components, and where this agreement and one of those licences disagree about that component, its own licence applies.

7. OWNERSHIP

The software, including its code, sounds, styles, artwork and documentation, is owned by Bezalel Instruments, LLC and its licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws. We keep every right not expressly granted to you. Timbrel and Bezalel Instruments are names of Bezalel Instruments, LLC. Other names mentioned in the software and its documentation (for example of host applications, instruments or musical genres) are trademarks of their owners and are used only to describe compatibility; we are not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

8. UPDATES

We may provide updates. We are not obliged to provide any update, support or maintenance, and an update may add, change or remove features.

9. ENDING THIS AGREEMENT

You may end this agreement at any time by deactivating and uninstalling the software and deleting every copy. It ends automatically if you break any of its terms; we may also revoke a licence key that was used in breach of it, or that was obtained with false registration details. We may stop offering free licences for new registrations at any time; that does not end licences already issued. When this agreement ends you must stop using the software and delete every copy. Sections 3 (for music you have already made), 6, 7 and 10 to 13 continue after it ends.

10. NO WARRANTY

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE, "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, BEZALEL INSTRUMENTS, LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR COMPATIBLE WITH ANY PARTICULAR COMPUTER, HOST APPLICATION, INSTRUMENT OR DEVICE. ALWAYS KEEP BACKUPS OF YOUR PROJECTS, KITS, PATTERNS AND STYLES, AND TEST THE SOFTWARE BEFORE RELYING ON IT IN A PERFORMANCE.

11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, BEZALEL INSTRUMENTS, LLC WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA, RECORDINGS, PROFITS, REVENUE OR OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN TOLD SUCH DAMAGES ARE POSSIBLE. BECAUSE THE SOFTWARE IS FREE, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE IS LIMITED TO US$50.

Some places do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in this agreement limits rights you have as a consumer that the law does not let a contract take away.

12. EXPORT AND GOVERNMENT USE

You will comply with the export control and sanctions laws that apply to you and to the software. If you are a United States government user, the software is "commercial computer software" and is licensed to you only with the rights in this agreement.

13. GENERAL

This agreement is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts located in Pennsylvania have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from it, unless the law where you live as a consumer requires otherwise. If any part of it is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. It is the entire agreement between you and us about the software and replaces any earlier one. Our not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it. We may update this agreement for later versions of the software; the version that came with the software you installed applies to that version.

14. CONTACT

Bezalel Instruments, LLC
licence@bezalelsound.com
https://bezalelinstruments.com