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This software is licensed, not sold. Permitted use is limited to:

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2. Integrating it into applications that consume the Inferior service.

The following are prohibited without prior written consent from Inferior Inc:

• Redistribution of this package or any modified version.
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Third-party notices

Each Inferior SDK / CLI / MCP package ships a NOTICE.md listing third-party dependencies and their upstream licenses. To inspect locally:

pip show inferior-ai                                   # high-level metadata
pip download --no-deps --pre --dest /tmp/pkg inferior-ai
unzip -l /tmp/pkg/*.whl                                # confirm LICENSE.md, NOTICE.md included

npm view @inferior-ai/sdk                              # high-level metadata
npm pack @inferior-ai/sdk@beta                         # download + extract; check NOTICE.md

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