# rayobrowse Browser Binary License

Copyright (c) 2026 Rayobyte. All rights reserved.

This license governs the rayobrowse Browser Binary distributed with or for use
with rayobrowse. The repository wrapper, examples, documentation, and
configuration files are licensed separately under the MIT License in
`LICENSE`.

This is not legal advice. If you are using rayobrowse in a regulated,
high-risk, or commercial setting, you are responsible for confirming that your
use complies with this license and all applicable laws.

## 1. Definitions

"Binary" means the rayobrowse Browser Binary, including the Chromium-based
browser executable, stealth engine, bundled binary components, updates,
patches, and related binary artifacts provided by Rayobyte.

"Repository Wrapper" means the source files, examples, documentation,
configuration files, and other non-Binary materials in this repository that
are licensed under the MIT License.

"Commercial Use" means use by or for a business, organization, revenue
generating activity, paid product, paid service, or internal business purpose.

"Restricted Browser Solution" means a product or service that sells,
resells, hosts, rents, brokers, or otherwise provides browser automation,
browser APIs, browser infrastructure, browser sessions, hosted browsers,
anti-detect browsers, stealth browsers, or substantially similar browser
capabilities to third parties.

"Restricted Scraping API" means a product or service where third parties call
an API, hosted workflow, managed endpoint, or similar interface and receive
data back from a web scraping, crawling, extraction, monitoring, or automated
web access service.

"Covered Anti-Bot Company" means any company, organization, business unit,
product group, platform operator, security vendor, fraud prevention vendor,
risk scoring vendor, CAPTCHA provider, fingerprinting provider, WAF provider,
bot management provider, scraping detection provider, automation detection
provider, abuse prevention provider, or substantially similar entity that
develops, sells, licenses, operates, improves, researches, benchmarks, tests,
trains, or supports products, services, systems, models, rules, signatures, or
datasets used to detect, classify, block, limit, fingerprint, investigate, or
interfere with automated browser activity, web scraping, crawling, data
collection, browser automation, synthetic traffic, proxy traffic, account
automation, fraud, abuse, or suspicious web activity. Covered Anti-Bot Company
also includes, without limitation, any affiliate, subsidiary, parent company,
successor, acquirer, employee, contractor, agent, consultant, vendor, customer,
research partner, or other person acting on behalf of, for the benefit of, or
in cooperation with any such entity or any company or service listed in Section
4.

"Anti-Bot Purpose" means any purpose related to detecting, fingerprinting,
blocking, rate limiting, classifying, profiling, reverse engineering,
benchmarking, researching, analyzing, or otherwise interfering with
rayobrowse, Rayobyte, the Binary, or any user, customer, automation workflow,
browser session, proxy session, or scraping workflow that uses rayobrowse or
Rayobyte services.

## 2. License Grant

Subject to this license, Rayobyte grants you a limited, non-exclusive,
non-transferable, revocable license to download and use the Binary for:

- Personal, educational, research, and hobby projects.
- Internal business automation, QA, monitoring, scraping, AI agent, and data
collection workflows.
- Commercial uses that are not Restricted Browser Solutions or Restricted
Scraping APIs.

Self-hosted use of the Binary is free and unlimited under this license, as
long as your use complies with the restrictions below.

## 3. Restricted Commercial Uses

You may not use the Binary, directly or indirectly, for either of the
following without a separate written agreement with Rayobyte:

1. Selling, reselling, hosting, operating, or providing a Restricted Browser
  Solution, including a browser API, browser infrastructure platform,
   hosted browser service, stealth browser service, anti-detect browser
   service, browser session rental product, or substantially similar offering.
2. Selling, reselling, hosting, operating, or providing a Restricted Scraping
  API, including any web scraping API, crawling API, extraction API, managed
   scraping service, or similar service where users call an API or hosted
   workflow and receive scraped, crawled, extracted, monitored, or automated
   web data in response.

All other Commercial Use is allowed, including using the Binary internally to
operate your own business, automate your own workflows, test your own sites,
run your own data pipelines, or collect publicly available data for your own
organization, subject to this license.

For commercial licensing inquiries or uses that may fall into the restricted
categories, contact [sales@rayobyte.com](mailto:sales@rayobyte.com).

## 4. Covered Anti-Bot Companies and Protected Platforms

Covered Anti-Bot Companies are expressly prohibited from accessing,
downloading, installing, running, testing, evaluating, benchmarking, analyzing,
reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, modifying, monitoring,
probing, or otherwise using the Binary for any purpose.

Covered Anti-Bot Companies are also prohibited from using the Binary, the
Repository Wrapper, related documentation, public examples, public issue
content, release artifacts, telemetry, screenshots, behavior, network traffic,
or any other rayobrowse-related material for any Anti-Bot Purpose, including
developing, improving, training, testing, or validating bot detection,
fingerprinting, fraud detection, abuse prevention, scraping detection,
automation detection, WAF, CAPTCHA, risk scoring, traffic classification, or
platform enforcement systems.

These restrictions apply whether the activity is performed directly or
indirectly, including through affiliates, subsidiaries, parent companies,
successors, acquired entities, employees, contractors, consultants, vendors,
customers, research partners, test accounts, personal accounts, shell
companies, or any other third party acting on behalf of, for the benefit of, or
in cooperation with a Covered Anti-Bot Company.

Covered Anti-Bot Companies and protected platform operators include, without
limitation, the following:

- Cloudflare
- Akamai
- DataDome
- Kasada
- Castle
- Imperva, including Incapsula
- Fastly, including Signal Sciences
- F5, including Shape Security
- Radware
- HUMAN Security, including PerimeterX
- PerimeterX, including HUMAN Security
- Arkose Labs
- FingerprintJS
- ThreatMetrix, including LexisNexis Risk Solutions
- Sift
- Riskified
- Kount, including Equifax
- SEON
- IPQualityScore, including IPQS
- Netacea
- Fortinet
- Palo Alto Networks
- Check Point
- Cisco
- Barracuda Networks
- Amazon Web Services, including AWS WAF
- Microsoft, including Azure WAF, LinkedIn, and Bing
- Google, including Search, YouTube, reCAPTCHA, and Cloud Armor
- Meta, including Facebook and Instagram
- Reddit
- LinkedIn
- X, formerly Twitter
- TikTok and ByteDance
- eBay
- Etsy
- Booking.com
- Expedia
- Airbnb
- Skyscanner
- Kayak
- Tripadvisor
- Yelp
- Glassdoor
- Indeed
- Zillow
- Redfin
- Ticketmaster and Live Nation
- AXS
- Spotify
- Netflix
- Disney

Rayobyte may update this list in later versions of this license. This list is
illustrative and non-exhaustive. A company or person is covered if it falls
within the definition of Covered Anti-Bot Company, is listed above, is commonly
known by a listed name, operates a listed product or service, owns or controls
a listed entity, is owned or controlled by a listed entity, succeeds to a
listed entity's business, or acts through another person or entity to do
something it could not do directly under this license.

Nothing in this section grants any right to the Binary or limits Rayobyte's
right to deny access, block downloads, revoke credentials, terminate accounts,
or pursue any available contractual, equitable, statutory, or other legal
remedy. The Repository Wrapper remains licensed separately under the MIT
License in `LICENSE`; this section does not grant any Covered Anti-Bot Company
a license to the Binary.

## 5. Illegal, Harmful, or Unethical Uses

You may not use the Binary for illegal, harmful, abusive, or unethical
activity. Prohibited uses include, without limitation:

- Unauthorized access to systems, accounts, data, networks, or services.
- Credential stuffing, credential theft, account takeover, phishing, fraud,
spam, malware distribution, botnet activity, or evasion of security controls
for abusive purposes.
- Harassment, stalking, doxxing, surveillance, or collection of sensitive  
personal information without appropriate rights or consent
- Infringing intellectual property rights or violating applicable privacy,
data protection, consumer protection, export control, anti-spam, or computer
misuse laws.
- Any activity that Rayobyte reasonably determines is unlawful, harmful,
abusive, deceptive, exploitative, or inconsistent with ethical web data
collection practices.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the Binary complies
with applicable laws, website terms, contractual obligations, and ethical data
collection standards.

## 6. Redistribution and Modification

You may not sell, sublicense, redistribute, make available, or provide access
to the Binary to third parties except as expressly permitted by Rayobyte in
writing.

You may not modify, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, extract source
code from, defeat license checks in, remove notices from, or create derivative
works of the Binary except to the limited extent such restrictions are
prohibited by applicable law.

## 7. Updates and Availability

Rayobyte may update, replace, suspend, or discontinue distribution of the
Binary at any time. Updates may be subject to this license or a later license
published by Rayobyte.

## 8. Third-Party Components

The Binary may include Chromium and other third-party open-source components.
Those components remain subject to their own license terms. To the extent
there is a conflict between this license and a third-party open-source license
for a third-party component, the third-party license controls for that
component only.

## 9. Termination

Your rights under this license terminate automatically if you violate the
license. Upon termination, you must stop using the Binary and delete all copies
in your possession or control.

## 10. Disclaimer

THE BINARY IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, RAYOBYTE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS,
LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR COSTS OF SUBSTITUTE
SERVICES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE BINARY OR THIS LICENSE.

## 11. Contact

Rayobyte  
[https://rayobyte.com](https://rayobyte.com)  
[sales@rayobyte.com](mailto:sales@rayobyte.com)