# KCS First Playable — Customer License
Version 2.0 — effective 2026-10-25 for this edition.
Provider: Kinfolk Cluster Studios. Contact: kinfolkclusterstudios@gmail.com.

## What is covered
This license covers original instructional lessons, workflow templates, quizzes, reading companions and course-specific explanatory material supplied with the purchased edition. Original project/example code and procedural assets have the separate MIT license in ../CODE_LICENSE.txt; that permissive license controls the code even where it grants broader rights.

## Permitted learning and project use
A lawful purchaser may keep backups, read and privately annotate/edit the instructional materials, and apply the methods in unlimited personal or commercial projects. The purchaser may share necessary working excerpts with collaborators on the purchaser's own projects, but may not publicly distribute the paid course or provide general multi-student access as a separate teaching product.
The purchaser may supply the instructional material to an AI assistant or private project context for their own permitted work, subject to that service's terms and privacy settings. This does not install tools, grant project access or permanently train a model.
The purchaser may sell their own games or software made using the methods. No royalty to KCS is due simply for applying the lessons. Separately licensed example code may be reused under its MIT terms.

## Instructional redistribution limits
Do not resell, publish, sublicense, repackage or redistribute the substantially unchanged paid instructional course, chapters, quizzes, private learner downloads or templates as another course, training pack, public knowledge product or dataset. Do not share account access where the website edition provides individual access.
This does not claim ownership over facts, ideas, general methods, the purchaser's original work or legally permitted uses such as statutory exceptions and reasonable review/commentary excerpts.

## Ownership and third parties
KCS retains its rights in original protectable contributions to the extent recognized by applicable law. Purchase does not transfer KCS brands or unrelated game characters, worlds or assets.
The course was created with AI assistance under human direction. No exclusive copyright in purely AI-generated material or customer AI output is guaranteed. Third-party rights remain with their owners. An acquired or generated asset still needs an appropriate use/redistribution basis.
No affiliation or endorsement by AI providers or engine/browser vendors is claimed. Those names identify tools and compatibility.

## Expectations
This is self-paced written/interactive education with project source and practical exercises, not a claim of recorded video lessons or live personal instruction. No guaranteed completion, fixes, hours/credits saved, income, rankings, employment or legal compliance is promised.
Use requirements and supported environments in ../COMPATIBILITY.md. The customer is responsible for reviewing generated code and verifying their own game before release.
Learning progress and quiz results are self-study records, not professional accreditation or independent proof of competence.

## Support, remedies and rights
Support scope is in ../SUPPORT.md. Applicable checkout/refund terms and mandatory consumer rights remain in effect. This license creates no blanket no-refunds rule and does not waive nonwaivable rights.
To the extent lawful, the instructional material is supplied as-is without additional warranties beyond expressly applicable terms. No limitation removes liability or remedies that law does not permit to be excluded.

## Material breach
Unauthorized redistribution or another material breach may end the instructional license after any legally required notice/opportunity to cure. This does not revoke separately granted MIT code rights or mandatory consumer remedies.
The delivered license version records the rights for that edition; a later version does not silently narrow an earlier purchase's rights.


MIT License
Copyright (c) 2026 Kinfolk Cluster Studios

Applies to original KCS example/project code, tests, local tools, course-reader code and procedurally generated example assets in this package. It does not apply to the separately licensed instructional lesson text, quizzes, KCS trademarks or third-party software.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.