Trademark

The code is yours. ClayJS and the libraries are MIT-0, which means you can use, modify, sell, and ship them with no attribution required and no strings attached. We are not going to surprise you later.

The names are the one thing we keep: Hyperclay, ClayJS, and HTML Clay. They exist so that when someone says "it's a Hyperclay app," you know where it came from. That is the whole reason for this page, and it is short on purpose.

You never need to ask

• Say what you built with. "Built with ClayJS," "runs on Hyperclay," "works with HTML Clay." If it is true, say it.
• Say your thing is compatible. Truthful compatibility and interoperability claims are always fine.
• Write about us. Tutorials, courses, reviews, comparisons, conference talks, criticism. You do not need our blessing to teach or to disagree with us in public.
• Use the code however you like. Fork it, vendor it, paste it into your own file, ship it in a product you sell. That is what MIT-0 is for.
• Say "malleable HTML." This one matters to us: "malleable HTML" is a generic term. It belongs to everyone, we will never register it, and we will never come after anyone for using it. It is the name of the idea, not the name of our product. Please use it.
• Run a user group or meetup named for the community rather than positioned as official, like "Portland Hyperclay Meetup."

Please ask first

Only four things, and the answer is usually yes.

• Your product's name. A name that leads with ours, like "Hyperclay Pro" or "ClayJS Studio," reads as something we made. Describe the relationship instead of absorbing the name: "Foo, a deployment tool for Hyperclay" needs no permission at all.
• The logo and wordmark. Use them to link to us or to say what you built with, unmodified. Anything else, ask. Do not use them as your own logo or as part of one.
• Domain names containing Hyperclay, ClayJS, or HTML Clay.
• The certification badge, once it exists. It means something specific and has to stay earned.

A fork is welcome, under its own name

• You can fork anything we publish; the license says so and we mean it. Give the fork its own name, and say plainly what it is derived from.
• "Bar, a fork of ClayJS" is accurate, honest, and completely fine. "ClayJS Community Edition" is not, because it reads as ours.

The formal part

• Hyperclay, ClayJS, and HTML Clay are trademarks of Hyperspace Systems LLC.
• Please use them as adjectives attached to a noun ("a Hyperclay app," "the ClayJS library") rather than as verbs or plurals, and keep the spelling and capitalization as written here.
• If a use is not covered above, or you are unsure, email david@hyperclay.com and describe what you want to do. We answer, and we are not looking for reasons to say no.
• This policy may change, but not retroactively: anything we have already told you is fine stays fine.