Legal & licences

This website

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads nothing from any other server — no fonts, no scripts, no embeds, no tracking pixels. Every page is static HTML served from a single machine. The build checks this automatically and refuses to publish a page that requests an external host.

The web server keeps ordinary access logs (IP address, timestamp, requested URL, user agent) for the short term, for operational and security purposes only. They are not analysed for behaviour, not combined with anything else, and not shared.

The extension

Rea-Sixty contains no telemetry of any kind. It does not phone home, check for updates, or transmit anything about you, your projects or your hardware. The source is public, so this is a checkable claim rather than a promise.

The extension does make network connections in two optional cases you turn on yourself: the Stream Deck / Companion bridge (loopback only by default) and DynaMount control (to mic stands on your own network). Both stay inside your network.

The Mapping Exchange — not live yet

A planned service for sharing plug-in mappings will accept user accounts. It is not running, and no accounts exist. When it launches, this policy will be extended before it accepts a single sign-up, and the design is already committed to two things:

• Passkeys as the primary login, which means most accounts will carry no personal data at all — a public key and a display name you choose.
• An email address only if you choose to add one, for account recovery and as an alternative sign-in where passkeys are not available. It will never be shown publicly and never used for marketing.

Browsing and downloading mappings will not require an account at all.

Rea-Sixty is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Solid State Logic Ltd.

“SSL”, “Solid State Logic”, “SSL 360°”, “UF8” and “UC1” are trademarks of Solid State Logic. They are used in this project and on this site solely to identify the hardware and software Rea-Sixty interoperates with — nominative fair use. They are not used as source identifiers for this project, its releases, or its distribution channels.

“REAPER” is a trademark of Cockos Incorporated. Rea-Sixty is not affiliated with Cockos.

Rea-Sixty's protocol knowledge comes from passive observation of USB traffic between SSL hardware and SSL software that the user legally owns and licenses, for the sole purpose of interoperating with REAPER.

What the project does not do:

• No decompilation, disassembly or binary analysis of SSL 360°, SSL360Core, or any SSL driver or firmware.
• No circumvention of DRM, code signing or licence checks. There are none in the observed path — the USB traffic is cleartext between two components on the user's own machine.
• No redistribution of SSL binaries, firmware, updaters, installers or proprietary creative content.

The statutory basis relied on:

• EU: Directive 2009/24/EC (Software Directive), Article 6 — decompilation and observation for interoperability by a lawful user, where the information is not otherwise available and the acts are confined to what interoperability requires. Article 8 voids contractual clauses purporting to exclude this.
• Germany: §69e UrhG transposes Article 6; §69d Abs. 3 UrhG additionally permits observing, studying and testing a program during normal operation.
• United States: 17 USC §1201(f), the DMCA interoperability exception, cited as a fallback — no circumvention is required here. Sega Enterprises v. Accolade (9th Cir. 1992) confirms reverse engineering for interoperability can be fair use.

This is a factual record of what the project does, not a legal opinion. The full rationale, including the review triggers that would require it to be revisited, is in the repository.

This rationale covers the non-commercial open-source use case specifically. Commercial distribution would require fresh legal review.