Splintr
Copyright © 2026 Hermit Dan <hermit.dan@protonmail.com>. All rights reserved.

Splintr is source-available software. It is not open source: the source is
provided so you can run, inspect, and adapt it on your own servers, under the
terms below.

Grant of License:
- You may download, install, and use Splintr free of charge.
- You may run a Splintr server for yourself and for other people (family,
  friends, a club, a community, or an organization), and federate it with other
  Splintr servers.
- You may run Splintr commercially. For example, you may show advertising,
  accept donations, sell accounts or subscriptions to your users (including
  paid tiers such as extra storage or App Gateway API access), or run a server
  as a company's own social presence.
- You may modify the software for use on servers you operate or administer
  for others. Installing a modified copy on a client's server as part of that
  work is not redistribution, but the client receives it under this license.
- You may publicly share patches (diffs or individual changed files) for
  Splintr, provided they are clearly labeled as unofficial and do not include a
  full or substantial copy of the Splintr codebase. Official updates replace
  core files, so patched files may be overwritten when a server is updated.
- You may redistribute verbatim (unmodified) copies of an official release,
  provided you include this license file, all copyright notices, and the
  original branding unchanged.
- You may copy and share the included documentation (docs/) to help people
  install, run, or build for Splintr.

Server Branding:
- You may set your server's name, logo, favicon, theme, and landing page using
  Splintr's admin settings. This is customizing your server, not rebranding the
  software.
- The copyright notices, the About, Help, and Download pages, and the Splintr
  credits must stay in place and unaltered.

Restrictions:
- You may NOT rebrand Splintr, or remove or alter authorship notices, logos, or
  credits, to present Splintr as your own work.
- You may NOT distribute modified versions of Splintr as "Splintr" or under any
  name implying it is an official release or a fork.
- You may NOT sell, sublicense, or rent Splintr itself, modified or
  unmodified. Splintr is always free to obtain.
- You may charge for services around Splintr, such as hosting, installation,
  administration, or support, provided anyone you provide Splintr to receives it
  under this license, free of charge, with these terms intact.

Plugins, Themes, and Other Add-ons:
- Plugins, themes, bots, and other add-ons you create are your own work. You may
  share them freely under any terms you choose, provided they are distributed
  separately and do not include the Splintr codebase.
- The first-party plugins published at https://splintr.net are covered by this
  license.
- Independent software that talks to Splintr servers through the federation
  protocol or the App Gateway API, without copying Splintr's code, is not
  restricted by this license.

Your Content and Your Server:
- Posts, media, messages, and other content belong to the people who create
  them. This license gives the author of Splintr no rights to the content on
  your server.
- If you run a server for other people, you are responsible for it: keeping it
  updated and secure, moderating it, and following any laws that apply to you
  where you operate, including privacy and data-protection laws.

Contributions:
If you send the author code, fixes, documentation, or suggestions, you agree
that the author may use, modify, and include them in Splintr under this license
or any future license, without payment or obligation. Contributions are not
being accepted through any formal process at this time.

Third-Party Components:
Some parts of Splintr and its plugins include third-party material (for example,
fonts distributed under the SIL Open Font License). Those parts remain under
their own licenses, which are included alongside them.

Termination:
If you break these terms, your permission to use Splintr ends automatically.
It is restored if you fix the problem within 30 days of becoming aware of it.

No Warranty / Limitation of Liability:
SPLINTR IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE
FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, DATA LOSS, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OF OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ANY SERVER
YOU OPERATE WITH IT.

Support:
Limited community support is available through the documentation on the
project website. Please report security issues privately to the contact address
below rather than publicly.

Website: https://splintr.net
Contact / Support / Security: hermit.dan@protonmail.com

Developed and maintained by Hermit Dan.
