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GPU Kitchen Community License
Installing or running GPU Kitchen means you accept this license. Paid plans use the Enterprise License. The open source components GPU Kitchen includes are listed, with their licenses, in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md file shipped with the software.
GPU Kitchen Community License (End User License Agreement) Version 1.1 — October 2026 Copyright (c) 2026 Byterain. All rights reserved. GPU Kitchen is proprietary software published by Byterain, SIREN 109694372, represented by Sébastien Caunes, 30 route d'Espanès, 31810 Clermont Le Fort, France (the "Publisher"). Contact: hello@gpu.kitchen. This End User License Agreement (the "Agreement") governs the use of the Community Edition of the GPU Kitchen software distributed in binary or container-image form (the "Software"). By installing or running the Software you accept this Agreement. If you do not accept it, do not install or run the Software. 1. DEFINITIONS "Community Edition" means the builds of the Software identified as "community" (OCI label io.gpukitchen.edition=community or equivalent), which contain none of the enterprise modules. "Enterprise Edition" means the builds identified as "enterprise", which link commercial modules; they are governed by the GPU Kitchen Enterprise License (published at https://gpu.kitchen/license/enterprise) and a commercial agreement with the Publisher, not by this Agreement. "Installation" means one GPU Kitchen controller together with all worker nodes enrolled to it, regardless of how many machines they run on. "GPU" means one physical graphics processing unit (or comparable accelerator) detected as present on any node of an Installation. "Unit of GPU power" means the measure of a GPU's computing power on the scale published by the Publisher at https://gpu.kitchen/pricing, on which one NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 counts as one (1) unit. The units of an Installation are the sum of the units of all of its GPUs. "Person" means an individual who holds an account on an Installation. 2. LICENSE GRANT — FREE TIER Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, the Publisher grants you a free of charge, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and run the Community Edition, for your own internal purposes, on Installations that each comprise AT MOST SIX (6) UNITS OF GPU POWER across all of their nodes AND AT MOST FIVE (5) PERSONS. Running an Installation beyond either limit, using the features that the pricing page at https://gpu.kitchen/pricing reserves to paid plans, and any use of the Enterprise Edition require a paid license from the Publisher. The Software may display a non-blocking notice when an Installation exceeds the free-tier limits; the absence of such a notice, or of any technical enforcement, does not waive these limits. 3. RESTRICTIONS Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement or by mandatory law, you may not, and may not permit any third party to: a. copy the Software other than as strictly necessary to install and run it, or as part of ordinary infrastructure backups; b. modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works of the Software; c. distribute, sell, rent, lease, lend, host for third parties, sublicense or otherwise make the Software available to any third party; d. reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software, except to the extent such acts are permitted by applicable mandatory law (in particular Articles L.122-6 and L.122-6-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code) notwithstanding this limitation, and then only after having requested from the Publisher the information necessary for interoperability; e. alter, remove or circumvent the edition marking of the Software, any license or free-tier check, or any proprietary notice; f. use the Software to provide a commercial hosted or managed service whose primary value is the Software itself. Access to the source code, where granted in any form, does not grant any right beyond those in Section 2; the source repository is not distributed under an open source license. 4. THIRD-PARTY COMPONENTS The Software includes third-party open source components, listed with their licenses in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md file distributed with the Software. Those components remain governed by their own licenses. In addition, the Software can download and run third-party inference engine container images (for example vLLM, Text Generation Inference, SGLang, llama.cpp); those images are not part of the Software, are fetched under your own responsibility and are governed solely by their own licenses. 5. CENTRAL HUB SERVICES The GPU Kitchen central hub (accounts, catalog, published benchmarks, billing) is an online service operated by the Publisher. It is not part of the Software and its use is governed by the terms of use published at https://gpu.kitchen/terms — not by this Agreement. 6. DATA AND TELEMETRY Information about the data the Software and the central hub services process (account data, telemetry, published benchmark results) is described in the privacy policy published at https://gpu.kitchen/privacy. The Community Edition does not require an account. Until an Installation is registered with a GPU Kitchen account, it sends no data about you, your machines or your work to the Publisher. It makes two checks: once a day, and when someone checks for updates, it asks the Publisher's release server whether a new version exists; and a beta or pre-release version checks the time with api.gpu.kitchen when it starts and about twice a day (Section 7). These checks reveal only the Installation's IP address. 7. PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE While the Software is distributed as a beta or pre-release version, it is provided for evaluation and early use; features, formats and limits (including the free-tier limit of Section 2) may change in later versions. A beta version needs network access to api.gpu.kitchen to run. It checks the time there when it starts and about twice a day. After half a day without an answer, it warns in the app; after a day, it pauses until api.gpu.kitchen answers again. A beta version stops working on January 20, 2027: it then removes its own programs and containers, and keeps your data, models, secrets and settings. Install a later version to continue. 8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; FEEDBACK The Software is licensed, not sold. The Publisher and its licensors retain all right, title and interest in and to the Software. If you send the Publisher feedback, suggestions or bug reports, you grant the Publisher a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them without restriction or compensation. 9. NO WARRANTY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE SOFTWARE DRIVES GPU HARDWARE (CLOCKS, POWER LIMITS, FANS, LIGHTING) AND RUNS THIRD-PARTY WORKLOADS; YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUITABILITY, COOLING, POWER AND BACKUP OF YOUR HARDWARE AND DATA. 10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE PUBLISHER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, NOR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR USE, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE, AND THE PUBLISHER'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED (100) EUROS, THE SOFTWARE BEING PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT EXCLUDES OR LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW (INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE, WILFUL MISCONDUCT, DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY). 11. TERM AND TERMINATION This Agreement applies for as long as you use the Software. It terminates automatically if you breach it. Upon termination you must stop using the Software and delete all copies. Sections 3, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 survive termination. 12. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION This Agreement is governed by French law. Any dispute relating to it that cannot be resolved amicably shall be submitted to the competent courts of Toulouse, France, subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rules granting jurisdiction elsewhere. 13. MISCELLANEOUS If any provision of this Agreement is held unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect. The Publisher may license the Software to you under updated terms for new versions of the Software. This Agreement is the entire agreement between you and the Publisher concerning the Community Edition, unless you have signed a separate written agreement with the Publisher, in which case that agreement prevails.