Fixed business-use license
Read the exact license before purchase.
BoardPort Audit no longer uses payment as the condition for starting development. These terms become a purchase contract only after a finished artifact is offered through checkout.
1. Purchase and contract
Purchase availability is shown above and checked again by the server. Visiting this page creates no order, license, delivery promise, or payment obligation.
2. Fixed product
The offered release candidate is version 0.1.0-rc.1, delivered as a Downloadable ZIP with offline HTML and JSON report. Its first input scope is EAGLE 9.6.2 XML .brd paired with KiCad 10.0 .kicad_pcb (validated with 10.0.6). Unsupported or ambiguous areas must be shown as NOT CHECKED.
3. Local-processing boundary
Supported PCB design contents must be processed on the purchaser’s device. The product must not upload EAGLE or KiCad contents to BoardPort. Order and payment providers may process ordinary transaction information only after sales open.
4. No engineering certification
Output is limited to defined comparisons. It does not certify circuit correctness, electrical safety, regulatory compliance, ERC/DRC, Gerber identity, reliability, or manufacturability. The purchaser remains responsible for design review and manufacturing decisions.
5. Paid market test
The 21-day buyer target is an internal continuation metric. Every buyer must receive the already-existing product immediately. Market target performance is not a condition for building or delivering the purchased product.
6. License and acceptable use
The selected purchaser boundary is one legal entity or one sole proprietor buying for an actual business purpose. Personal, household, and ambiguous-purpose purchases are excluded before payment. The owner-approved paid-test scope covers that same operator's officers, employees, and contractors using the exact purchased version perpetually on any number of devices the operator owns, leases, or controls. Affiliates, subsidiaries, clients, and other businesses are excluded. The operator may use BoardPort internally for its own client work and share authorized generated reports, but clients may not receive or directly access the product. Transfer, sublicense, resale, redistribution, publication, hosted, SaaS, managed-service, and service-bureau access are prohibited. Later versions, updates, maintenance, custom work, BoardPort consulting, and live support are not included. This scope bundle is an approved part of the fixed license. Reading it alone does not grant a license; a qualifying purchase and verified payment are required.
7. Hash-bound approval packet
The complete license text below is fixed at SHA-256 f3e9d600ff998147bb2550576999f08d4317a3afed0d3a36043958781c281080. It has 8 of 8 required approvals. Changing the license, its official-source record, market benchmark, or the recorded owner decision invalidates the review.
- Seller identity and disclosures: approved
- Business purchaser and license scope: approved
- Refund rule: approved
- Support operation: approved
- Liability, governing law, and venue: approved
- Standard Stripe Checkout readiness: approved
- Tax code and offered countries: approved
- Exact artifact distribution rights: approved
8. Offline refund boundary
After the purchased file first becomes available to download, refunds for a change of mind or mistaken purchase are generally unavailable. Refunds remain available for non-delivery, duplicate charges, material defects in the supported environment that cannot be resolved by reasonable correction or re-provision, and cases required by applicable law or the payment service.
Include the order reference, enough information to verify the purchaser, and a description of the issue. Please contact us promptly, preferably within 14 calendar days after provision starts. This is a contact target, not an unconditional refund guarantee or a deadline that ends legal or payment-service rights. If the product has not been provided, that target has not begun. Once a valid refund has been determined, BoardPort initiates or submits it within two business days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Japanese public holidays. Refunds use the original payment method and currency. A full refund includes collected tax; BoardPort charges no cancellation fee.
A completed full refund of the purchase price or final chargeback ends the affected license and future downloads. Stop use and delete local copies; offline files cannot be erased remotely. Refunding only an extra duplicate charge does not end a separate valid license that remains fully paid.
Earlier purchases keep the refund terms accepted at purchase, including the 14-day no-reason full-refund promise where it applied. Earlier purchase terms.
Complete English license — exact artifact text
This is the same license text included in the fixed ZIP. English is the controlling language.
BOARDPORT CUSTOMER LICENSE STATUS: FINAL # BoardPort Audit Business-Use License BOARDPORT CONTRACT VERSION: boardport-audit-business-license-v3 BOARDPORT EFFECTIVE DATE: 2026-09-03 BOARDPORT SELLER RECORD VERSION: slr-9749486f12b69f797260fdebd4ae0033 BOARDPORT STATUTORY SELLER PARTY: boardport-seller-and-licensor BOARDPORT DISCLOSURE METHOD: request-based-disclosure BOARDPORT BUSINESS ONLY: true BOARDPORT ELIGIBLE PURCHASER KINDS: legal-entity,sole-proprietor-business-purpose BOARDPORT EXCLUDED PURCHASE PURPOSES: household,personal BOARDPORT AMBIGUOUS PURPOSE HANDLING: reject-before-payment BOARDPORT LICENSEE SCOPE: one-purchasing-business-operator-no-affiliates BOARDPORT USER SCOPE: officers-employees-and-contractors-acting-for-licensee BOARDPORT DEVICE SCOPE: unlimited-licensee-owned-leased-or-controlled-devices BOARDPORT DURATION: perpetual-purchased-version BOARDPORT AFFILIATE SCOPE: excluded-unless-separately-licensed BOARDPORT CLIENT WORK SCOPE: internal-use-for-licensees-own-client-work BOARDPORT THIRD PARTY ACCESS SCOPE: generated-reports-only-no-product-access BOARDPORT REFUND ELIGIBILITY: no-customer-convenience-refund-after-provision-with-exceptions BOARDPORT PROVISION START: first-download-availability BOARDPORT REFUND EXCEPTIONS: non-delivery,duplicate-charge,unresolved-material-defect-in-supported-environment,required-by-law-or-payment-provider BOARDPORT REFUND CONTACT TARGET DAYS AFTER PROVISION: 14 BOARDPORT REFUND CONTACT TARGET LIMITS LEGAL RIGHTS: false BOARDPORT REFUND REQUEST CHANNEL: support@signalandship.com BOARDPORT REFUND INITIATION BUSINESS DAYS AFTER VALID REFUND DECISION: 2 BOARDPORT REFUND BUSINESS DAY CALENDAR: Japan BOARDPORT PRIOR PURCHASE CONDITIONS: purchase-time-terms-preserved BOARDPORT REFUND LOCAL COPY EFFECT: license-ends-stop-use-delete-copies-no-remote-erasure BOARDPORT SUPPORT EMAIL: support@signalandship.com BOARDPORT SUPPORT RESPONSE HOURS: 48 BOARDPORT SUPPORT LANGUAGES: en,ja BOARDPORT LIABILITY CAP: amount-paid-for-licensed-version-with-non-limitable-exceptions BOARDPORT GOVERNING LAW: Japan BOARDPORT VENUE: Tokyo District Court BOARDPORT CONTROLLING LANGUAGE: English BOARDPORT TAX CODE: txcd_10202003 BOARDPORT SALES COUNTRIES: JP BOARDPORT ARTIFACT VERSION: 0.1.0-rc.1 BOARDPORT THIRD PARTY NOTICES FILE: THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt ## Parties and acceptance This agreement is between the licensor identified by the seller record and the one purchasing business operator named by the purchaser. That operator may be a legal entity or a sole proprietor buying for an actual business purpose. For a sole proprietor, the individual purchaser is the customer even when a trade name is used. The individual accepting represents that the purchase is not for personal or household use and that they have authority to act for the customer. Acceptance must be affirmative and recorded against this exact contract version. This version applies only to an order for which it was presented and accepted. Earlier orders retain their purchase-time license and refund conditions. ## Licensed product and supported environment The licensed product is the exact BoardPort Audit version and SHA-256 identified at checkout and in the delivery record. Supported input profiles, operating system, browser, file-size limits, execution limit, and implemented checks are only those documented for that version. ## License grant After payment, the customer receives a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, perpetual license for the purchased version. Officers, employees, and contractors acting for the customer may use it on any number of devices owned, leased, or controlled by the customer, solely for the customer's work and under the customer's responsibility. Affiliates, subsidiaries, clients, and other independent business operators are not covered. Reasonable backup copies may be made when all notices are retained. ## Restrictions The customer may not resell, redistribute, sublicense, rent, publish, or provide the product or access to an affiliate, subsidiary, client, or other independent business operator. The customer may not operate it as a hosted service, software-as-a-service offering, service bureau, managed service, or similar direct-access offering for third parties. The customer may use the product internally while performing its own consulting or contract work and may share lawfully generated reports when authorized to share the underlying information; report recipients may not receive or directly access the product. Restrictions do not override rights that applicable law makes non-waivable. ## Customer files and confidentiality boundary BoardPort claims no ownership of customer PCB files or generated reports. The documented product processes supported design-file contents on the customer's device and does not send those contents to BoardPort. Transaction and support providers may process ordinary operational data under the approved privacy notice. The customer remains responsible for its files, reports, and downloads. ## Output limitations The software reports only its documented comparisons and may return NOT_CHECKED. It is not an electrical, safety, regulatory, ERC, DRC, manufacturing, Gerber, reliability, or design certification. The customer remains responsible for all engineering and manufacturing decisions and must not rely on the report as the sole basis for a safety-critical decision. ## Delivery, updates, and support The purchased version is delivered electronically at the time stated before checkout. Later versions, updates, maintenance, custom work, consulting from BoardPort, and live support are excluded unless an approved offer expressly includes them. Product and transaction support use support@signalandship.com with an operational response target within 48 hours. The BoardPort operator, trading as Signal & Ship, is the seller and licensor. Stripe processes payments and is not the seller of this product. ## Refunds Provision starts when the purchased file first becomes available to download, whether or not the customer downloads or opens it. After provision starts, refunds for the customer's convenience, including a change of mind or mistaken purchase, are generally unavailable. Refunds remain available for non-delivery, duplicate charges, material failures of documented functions in the supported environment that cannot be resolved by reasonable correction or re-provision, and cases required by applicable law or the applicable payment service. BoardPort will assess the reported problem and provide correction or re-provision where appropriate. This does not require the customer to accept correction first when applicable law or payment-service rules provide a different remedy. If a payment is accepted from outside the eligible sales countries, the product is not provided and the payment is handled for refund; the customer-convenience restriction does not remove this handling. Contact support@signalandship.com with the order reference, enough information to verify the purchaser, and a description of the issue. Please contact us promptly, preferably within 14 calendar days after provision starts. This is a contact target, not a refund deadline, and does not shorten rights under law or the applicable payment service. If the product has not been provided, that contact target has not begun. Once a valid refund has been determined, BoardPort initiates the refund within 2 business days to the original payment method in the original payment currency. Business days exclude Saturdays, Sundays and Japanese public holidays. A full refund includes any collected tax; BoardPort charges no cancellation fee. Provider and financial-institution posting time is separate, commonly about 5 to 10 business days, and may vary. BoardPort follows up on pending or failed refunds and does not treat initiation as completion. A completed full refund of the licensed purchase or a final chargeback ends the license and future re-download access. The customer must stop use and delete local copies; the offline product has no remote deletion mechanism. Refunding only an extra duplicate charge does not end a separately valid, fully paid license. A failed refund does not establish that a full refund was completed. Earlier purchases remain governed by the refund conditions accepted at purchase. ## Ownership and notices BoardPort and its licensors retain rights not expressly granted. The customer artifact must include the notices identified by its manifest. Compatibility references identify third-party formats only and do not imply affiliation with or endorsement by Autodesk or the KiCad project. ## Warranty The limited warranty covers material performance of documented checks in the documented supported environment. Available remedies are reasonable correction, replacement, or refund. Aggregate liability is limited according to the exact liability-cap decision recorded above, except where Japan or other applicable law does not permit the parties to limit liability. ## Termination The license continues unless a material breach remains uncured after reasonable notice, or immediate action is reasonably necessary for unlawful distribution or infringement. After termination, use must stop and copies must be deleted. Provisions that by their nature should survive continue to apply. ## Governing law Japan governs and Tokyo District Court is the agreed court of first instance. English is the controlling language. Mandatory law prevails wherever it cannot be varied by agreement.