Official AgreementLast Updated: 07 July 2026

Acceptable Use Policies

AI Provider Policies, Open Source Terms & Operational Conduct for Entropy IDE

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) defines the acceptable and prohibited uses of the Entropy IDE desktop application, web IDE, API services, and associated AI features provided by Knolink (Pty) Ltd (“Entropy”, “we”, or “us”).

By accessing or using Entropy IDE, you agree to comply with this AUP, our Terms of Service, and the respective terms of all third-party AI subprocessors and open source licenses incorporated into the software.

1. Overview & Purpose

Entropy IDE provides an intelligent, agentic development environment equipped with multi-model inference, language servers, live collaboration, and cloud development workspaces. To protect our users, infrastructure, and third-party AI networks, all users must use the software responsibly, legally, and ethically.

Customers are responsible for all prompts, source code, data inputs, and outputs generated through their accounts.

2. AI Subprocessor Policies

Entropy integrates advanced foundation models provided by several industry-leading AI infrastructure providers. As set forth in Section 2.3 of the Terms of Service, Customer usage of any AI-assisted feature (including autocomplete, chat, agentic refactoring, and code review) is explicitly conditioned upon compliance with the relevant provider policies:

Anthropic, PBC

Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku, Claude 3 Opus

Prohibits use for CBRN weapons, cyberattacks, child exploitation, and unauthorized medical advice.

Anthropic Usage Policy

Google LLC

Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 1.5 Flash

Prohibits generating spam, malware distribution, hate speech, and deceptive impersonation.

Google Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy

OpenAI, LLC

GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, o1, o3-mini

Prohibits automated weapon design, illegal gambling, self-harm promotion, and non-consensual surveillance.

OpenAI Usage Policies & Sharing Guidelines

GitHub / Microsoft

GitHub Copilot Services & Language Server Protocols

Governs developer telemetry, repository mirroring, and multi-user synchronization.

GitHub Acceptable Use Policies

LiveKit Incorporated

Real-time Voice, Collaboration & WebRTC Audio Mesh

Prohibits abusive streaming bandwidth consumption and unauthorized eavesdropping.

LiveKit Acceptable Use Policy

3. Prohibited Uses & Activities

You agree not to use Entropy IDE, its APIs, or any AI Output to:

Malicious Software & Cyberattacks: Develop, deploy, or distribute ransomware, spyware, trojans, worms, keyloggers, automated exploit payloads, or conduct denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Legitimate security vulnerability research must be conducted in controlled sandboxes without violating third-party rights.

Illegal Activities & Exploitation: Promote, facilitate, or engage in human trafficking, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), violence, non-consensual surveillance, or violation of applicable national or international laws.

Protected Data Violations (PHI / PCI DSS): Submit Protected Health Information (PHI) under HIPAA, or cardholder payment data (PAN, CVV, PIN) under PCI DSS into the AI prompt pipeline or shared collaboration channels.

Circumvention & Infrastructure Abuse: Reverse-engineer internal non-public APIs, bypass rate limits, spoof licensing tokens, or deploy scraping bots that degrade the performance of Entropy or Apolemia inference infrastructure.

Misinformation & Fraud: Generate deceptive phishing campaigns, fraudulent financial schemes, automated disinformation, or forged cryptographic credentials.

4. Open Source Licensing & Compliance

Entropy IDE incorporates open source components, which are governed by their respective licenses:

Apache License 2.0

Applicable to core editor runtime components, extension APIs, and toolchain harnesses. Grants permissive rights with clear patent and trademark reservations.

GNU GPL v3.0

Applicable to certain server plugins and language runtime bridges. Source code is made available in accordance with copyleft provisions upon request.

To request full source listings and open source attribution notices for your release version, email legal@knolink.co.za.

5. Collaboration & Sharing Guidelines

When utilizing Entropy’s real-time peer-to-peer and cloud collaboration channels (LiveKit WebRTC, shared terminal sessions, and workspace co-editing):

You must have express authority from the workspace owner to share proprietary codebases.
Never transmit root credentials, SSH private keys, or environment secrets via unencrypted workspace chat.
Channel audio and screen-sharing sessions are ephemeral and not recorded by Entropy servers without active participant confirmation.

6. Violations & Enforcement

Entropy reserves the right to investigate potential violations of this Acceptable Use Policy. Depending on the severity of the violation, Knolink may:

Issue a formal warning and request immediate remediation.

Temporarily throttle or restrict access to AI inference engines.

Permanently terminate the account and revoke desktop client access without refund.

To report suspected security vulnerabilities or abuse, contact our Trust & Safety team at legal@knolink.co.za.