Neuron

Licence

Neuron is licensed to you under the Apache License 2.0.

These are the licence terms for Neuron, wherever you obtained it — including from the Microsoft Store. They replace any default store licence terms.

Last updated 24 August 2026 · applies to Neuron 0.4.3 and later

The licence

Neuron is free and open-source software, licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The full text is in LICENSE in the source repository, and the attribution notice is in NOTICE. Where anything on this page differs from the Apache License itself, the Apache License governs.

Copyright 2026 Shivam Khetan.

What that means in practice

You may, at no cost and without asking:

  • Use Neuron for anything, including commercially, on as many devices as you like.
  • Read, modify and build the source code.
  • Redistribute it, modified or not, provided you keep the copyright and licence notices and state what you changed.

The licence also grants you a patent licence from contributors, and it ends if you bring a patent claim alleging Neuron infringes.

What you may not do is imply that the author endorses your version, or use the Neuron name or logo as your own trademark.

No warranty

Neuron is provided on an "as is" basis, without warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation any warranties of title, non-infringement, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

In no event shall the author be liable for any damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use Neuron, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

This restates sections 7 and 8 of the Apache License. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or liabilities, in which case those exclusions apply only to the extent permitted by law, and your statutory consumer rights are unaffected.

If you obtained Neuron from the Microsoft Store

These terms apply instead of the Store's standard application licence terms. Neuron is open-source software, and the standard terms — which restrict things like redistribution and reverse engineering — would contradict the freedoms the Apache License deliberately grants you.

Microsoft distributes Neuron; it does not own it, did not write it, and is not a party to this licence. Microsoft gives no warranty for Neuron and is not responsible for it. Any support request goes to the project, not to Microsoft.

Neuron contains no in-app purchases and no subscription. Nothing is sold to you and no payment is collected, by Microsoft or by anyone else.

Third-party components

Neuron is built on open-source components — Electron, React, CodeMirror, node-pty, sql.js and others — each under its own licence. Those licences are unaffected by this one and continue to govern those components. Every runtime dependency and its licence can be listed from a source checkout with npm ls --omit=dev, and each package ships its own licence file.

Plain English, not legal advice

The summary above is written to be readable, not to be operative. The Apache License 2.0 is the licence; this page explains it. If you need a legal opinion about how it applies to you, ask a lawyer.

Questions about the project: open an issue.