Legal
KyPanel License Agreement
Effective November 1, 2026
This agreement covers the KyPanel software: the control panel, its agent and node services, the installer and scripts, the command-line client, updates and documentation (the "Software"). It applies together with the Terms of Service; for how the Software may be used, this agreement prevails. By installing, copying or using the Software you accept it. If you don't, don't install or use it. "We" means KyPanel; "you" means the person or company that installs or uses the Software.
1. License
While you have an active license or trial for a server, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to install and run one copy of the Software on that server, and on the mail and database nodes linked to it, and to use it to provide hosting services to yourself and your customers. The Software is licensed, not sold.
2. What you may not do
Except where this agreement or the law expressly allows it, you may not, and may not let anyone else:
- copy the Software, other than installing it under section 1 and keeping backups of your servers;
- sell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense, publish, redistribute or otherwise make the Software or any part of it available to others, including the installer, scripts and configuration templates it ships;
- modify, translate or create derivative works of the Software;
- decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Software, or try to obtain its source code, except to the extent the law allows this despite this restriction;
- remove, bypass or tamper with license checks, update signatures, or copyright and license notices;
- use the Software, or knowledge gained from studying it, to build or help build a competing product;
- use the Software or any part of it, including its code, decompiled output and documentation, to train, fine-tune or evaluate artificial intelligence or machine learning models, or to create datasets for them. Sharing short excerpts with a support service, including an AI assistant, only to operate or troubleshoot your own licensed installation is allowed.
3. Ownership and confidentiality
KyPanel owns the Software and all intellectual property in it. The Software's code and structure are our confidential information: you won't disclose them except as this agreement allows. If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them without obligation to you.
4. Open-source components
The Software includes and installs open-source components, such as Roundcube, phpMyAdmin, nginx, Exim and Dovecot, each under its own license. They are listed on the Licenses page. Nothing in this agreement limits the rights those licenses give you over those components.
5. License checks and updates
The Software contacts our license server to confirm its license and our update server to download updates, which are signed. What it sends is described in the Privacy Policy. Updates are covered by this agreement as they are released.
6. Your data
We claim no rights to your data or your customers' data. You remain responsible for it, for the servers you run the Software on and for your backups.
7. Term and termination
This agreement lasts while you have an active license or trial. If the license ends or you break this agreement, your right to use the panel ends: it switches to read-only, hosted websites, email and DNS keep running, and you can still move your data out. We may also suspend a license used in breach of this agreement. Sections 2 to 4 and 8 to 10 continue after it ends.
8. Warranty and liability
The Software is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. The limits of liability in the Terms of Service apply to the Software.
9. Enforcement
A breach of section 2 or 3 can cause harm that money can't fully repair, so in addition to any other remedy we may ask a court to stop it. Using or distributing the Software outside this agreement infringes our copyright.
10. Changes and contact
We may update this agreement. Material changes will be announced by email or in the client area at least 30 days before they take effect, and continuing to use the Software after that means you accept them. Questions: open a ticket at my.kypanel.com.