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Silicon Antiques Instrument Licence

Version 1.0.0, the licence shown by the 1.0.0 installers.

SILICON ANTIQUES INSTRUMENT LICENCE (free instruments)

Version 1.0.0, 2 November 2026.

Covers: Mellt FM-1, Tant KS-2 and Tonnau WT-3, version 1.0.0 and later free versions (the "Instruments"), in Audio Unit, VST3 and Standalone form for macOS, with their factory presets and wavetables. Shown by the installer; a copy is installed with each Instrument and published at siliconantiques.com/licence.

1. Who we are. Silicon Antiques is a trading name of Andrew White, a sole trader in Wales, United Kingdom. "We" and "us" means Silicon Antiques. Contact: [email protected].

2. What you may do. We grant you a free, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Instruments on any number of Macs that you own or control, for any purpose. You may make, release and sell music and other recordings made with the Instruments, including recordings that use the factory presets and wavetables. We claim no ownership of your recordings because you used the Instruments. Everything you make with them is yours. You don't owe us a credit, though we'd be glad of one.

3. What you may not do.

  • Sell, rent, lease or charge for the Instruments themselves, or bundle them with something you sell as though they were part of it.
  • Redistribute the installers or the installed files. Point people to siliconantiques.com instead; the download is free there.
  • Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Instruments, or make derivative works from them, except to the extent the law allows regardless of this clause.
  • Remove or alter our name, copyright notices or product names, or the notices of the third parties listed in the Acknowledgements.
  • Extract, share, sell or repackage the factory preset files, wavetable files or artwork, whether unchanged or modified, as a preset pack, content library or other standalone product. This does not prevent their use in your music and recordings.

4. Ownership. The Instruments, their code, designs, artwork, names and documentation are ours. This licence is permission to use them, not a transfer of ownership. "Silicon Antiques" is the subject of a pending United Kingdom trade mark application (UK00004452967). "Mellt", "Tant" and "Tonnau" are our product names.

5. Third-party software and fonts. The Instruments are built with the JUCE framework (copyright Raw Material Software Limited) and include other third-party software, each under its own licence. They also include the typefaces Barlow Condensed and IBM Plex Mono, which are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1; that licence requires its text and the fonts' copyright notices to travel with the fonts, and they do. The full list and all notices are in the Acknowledgements file installed with each Instrument and reproduced in its manual. Those components are licensed to you by their owners on their terms, not by this licence. Nothing in this licence limits permissions granted under the applicable third-party licences; where those terms conflict with this licence, the third-party terms apply to the relevant component.

6. Updates and support. The Instruments are free, so support is best effort, by email. We may release updates, change the Instruments, or stop distributing them at any time. We are not obliged to keep any version available or to keep them working with future versions of macOS or of any host application.

7. No warranty. The Instruments are provided as they are and as available, without any warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. We do not promise that they are free of errors, that they will run on your system, or that they will keep working after an operating-system or host update. Test them before relying on them in a session that matters.

8. Liability. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable to you for any loss or damage arising from the Instruments or your use of them, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, including loss of work, data, profit, revenue or business, or damage to equipment or recordings. Nothing in this licence excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer, nothing in this licence affects your legal rights.

9. Your data. The Instruments do not collect personal data and do not connect to the internet. Downloading them from our website involves giving us an email address; how we handle that is described at siliconantiques.com/privacy, which is separate from this licence.

10. Ending the licence. This licence ends automatically if you break its terms. You may end it at any time by deleting the Instruments. Clauses 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8 continue after it ends, so recordings you made before it ended remain yours to use.

11. Law and courts. This licence is governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer you may also rely on the mandatory consumer-protection rules and courts of the country where you live.

12. Changes. We may issue a revised licence with future versions of the Instruments. The installer shows the licence that applies to the version it installs, and installing that version means accepting it. The licence shown for the version you install is the one that applies to that version.

13. Whole agreement. This licence is the whole agreement between you and us about the Instruments. If any part of it is found invalid, the rest still applies.

Diolch for using them. Made in Wales.