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The prohibition prevents customers from commercialising or redistributing Snowflake's technology in any form, including allowing third parties to access it, which limits how customers can build and offer their own products.
Interpretive note: The excerpt references subsection (a) only, suggesting additional restrictions exist in the full clause. The canonical claim is limited to what is quoted.
You cannot share, resell, sublicense, or make Snowflake Technology available to third parties in any manner, and you cannot permit third parties to do so either.
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The prohibition prevents customers from commercialising or redistributing Snowflake's technology in any form, including allowing third parties to access it, which limits how customers can build and offer their own products.
You cannot share, resell, sublicense, or make Snowflake Technology available to third parties in any manner, and you cannot permit third parties to do so either.
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