Terms of use

Revised on 2026-09-04.

Definitions

• The author: Aron Soto, who holds the rights over Verbaly and over this site.
• The software: the open source packages published on npm under the Verbaly name, compiler, runtime and framework adapters included.
• The site: the pages where these terms are shown, together with the documentation.
• You: whoever uses the software, reads the site, or both.

The software and the site are two different things and it helps not to mix them. The software is governed by its licence. The site is governed by the sections that follow. How the data of a visitor is handled is covered by the privacy policy.

Licence of the software

Every Verbaly package is published under the MIT licence, which is among the most permissive there is. In one sentence: you can use the code for whatever you want, commercial work included, as long as you keep the copyright notice and the licence itself in the copies you distribute.

The text below is the one that governs, and it is the one shipped inside every package. If anything on this page contradicts it, the licence wins.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Aron Soto

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.

No warranty

The two paragraphs in capitals in the licence are the part most often skipped and the part that matters most, so they go here in plain language too.

The software is offered as it is, with no warranty of any kind. Nothing is promised about it working for your case, about it being free of defects, or about it still being maintained tomorrow. Before putting it into something serious, try it in your project: that is what the build gate is for, and it fails when a translation is missing.

Limitation of liability

If using the software causes you harm, a loss of data or a problem with a client, the liability does not fall on the author. This is the norm in free software and it is the condition under which the work is given away.

None of this is meant to exclude liabilities that the applicable law does not allow to be excluded.

Use of the site

The site is public documentation and can be read, quoted, linked and shared without asking. The only thing asked in return is that you do not do what would spoil it for everyone else:

• Do not try to take it down or to overload it with automated requests.
• Do not go looking for access to parts that are not public.
• Do not republish the documentation as your own or strip its authorship.
• Do not use the name or the logo in a way that suggests an official product that it is not.

Brand and documentation

The Verbaly name and its logo are not part of the MIT licence: the licence covers the code, not the identity. You can name Verbaly to say that your project uses it, and you can show the logo when you link to it, but you cannot use it as the brand of a product of your own or imply an endorsement that does not exist.

The text of the documentation belongs to the author. Quoting it with a link to the source is fine. Copying it wholesale to another site is not.

Third party links

The site links to GitHub, to npm and to other pages we do not control, and it shows public figures those services publish. Whatever happens at those destinations is governed by their own terms, and we answer neither for their content nor for their availability.

Availability

This is the documentation site of a personal project, so there is no availability commitment. It can go down, it can change address and it can be reorganised without notice. When a page moves it leaves a redirect behind, but that is good practice and not a promise.

The versions published on npm are permanent, because npm does not allow a published version to be withdrawn at will. What you installed will stay there.

General

These terms pick no country and no court, and that is deliberate. Verbaly is a personal project that is given away, so a choice of forum would add nothing for someone reading the documentation. Were there ever a dispute, it would be settled by whichever general rules apply.

If you live somewhere that grants you consumer rights, those rights remain yours. Nothing here is meant to cut them back, or to exclude liabilities the law does not allow to be excluded.

If any section here turned out not to be valid, the rest stays valid all the same.

The MIT licence always governs the code. These terms cover the site and its documentation, and they neither replace it nor change it.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change, the revision date above changes with them. A change of licence, were there ever one, would be written up in the changelog as well. Versions already published keep the licence they went out with.

Contact

For anything about these terms, open an issue on GitHub. It is public, it stays on the record, and the answer serves whoever has the same question.