License

PolyShot has a free trial of 30 days, then a yearly license. It isn't open source. This is the agreement you accept when you install it.

PolyShot also includes open-source software and fonts, under their own licenses: third-party notices.

POLYSHOT END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Please read this agreement. By installing or using PolyShot you accept it. If
you don't accept it, don't install or use PolyShot.

1. What you get

PolyShot (the "Software") is licensed to you, not sold. Paris Polyzos
("the Author") grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable,
revocable licence to install and use the Software on computers you own or
control, for your own personal or internal business use: free of charge
during the trial, and after that while you hold a valid paid licence
(section 5).

2. What you may not do

You may not, and may not let anyone else:

a. sell, rent, lease, sublicense or otherwise commercialise the Software, or
charge for access to it;
b. copy, modify, translate or create derivative works of the Software;
c. redistribute the Software, or host it for download anywhere other than the
official PolyShot website and releases page, unless you have the Author's
written permission;
d. reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software, or try to extract
its source code, except to the extent that applicable law allows this
despite this restriction;
e. remove or change any copyright, trademark or licence notice;
f. bypass or disable any technical protection, update signature check or
licensing mechanism in the Software, now or in the future;
g. use the name "PolyShot", its logo or its icon for a product or service that
isn't the Author's, or in a way that suggests the Author endorses it.

3. Ownership

The Software, including its code, design, icons, text and documentation, is
owned by the Author and protected by copyright and other laws. This agreement
gives you a right to use the Software; it doesn't transfer any ownership. All
rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Screenshots, recordings and other files you make with PolyShot belong to you.
The Author claims no rights to them.

4. Open-source components

PolyShot includes third-party open-source components and fonts. They are
licensed under their own terms, which apply to those components instead of this
agreement. Nothing here limits your rights under those licences. Their notices
are listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt.

5. Trial and paid licence

a. Every copy starts with a free trial with all features: 30 days from the
day you first start it on a computer, followed once by 7 more days.
Updating or reinstalling the Software doesn't restart the trial.
b. After the trial, taking screenshots and recordings needs a paid licence,
sold as a yearly subscription through Creem (creem.io). Creem is the
seller of record: it handles payment, invoices, taxes and refunds under
its own terms.
c. A licence key can be activated on as many computers as stated when you buy
it. To move it, remove it from a computer in Settings › License first.
d. Without a valid licence (after the trial, 14 days after a subscription
ends without being renewed, when it is refunded or removed from the
computer, or when it can't be confirmed for 60 days) the Software stops taking new screenshots and recordings. Everything you made stays yours and usable:
the library, mark up, export and your files keep working.
e. The Software confirms the licence with the Author's licence server about
once a day. When the server can't be reached, a licence that was valid
keeps working for 60 days after its last confirmation, and again as soon
as the server answers.
f. The Author may change prices, licensing or features for new purchases and
new versions, or stop offering the Software. A version you have already
downloaded stays covered by the terms you accepted for it, and a paid
subscription keeps its terms until it ends.

6. Privacy

PolyShot has no accounts and no telemetry, and keeps your screenshots and
recordings on your computer. Its only network requests are the daily update
check, which you can turn off in Settings; the optional download of a text
recognition language model; and, once you enter a licence key, the licence
check, which sends the key, a name for the computer (its system name) and the
app version to the Author's licence server, which passes the key and that name
to Creem. During the free trial, PolyShot also sends that server, once, an
anonymous code made from the computer's built-in identifier (a one-way hash:
the identifier itself isn't sent) and the date the trial started, so that
reinstalling doesn't restart the trial. The server keeps only that code and
that date. PolyShot keeps a copy of its licence details (the trial's start
date and, once entered, the key) in the system's password store (Keychain on
macOS, Credential Manager on Windows), which stays after PolyShot is removed.

7. Updates

PolyShot can check for and install updates. Updates are covered by this
agreement unless they come with their own terms.

8. No warranty

The Software is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any
kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for
a particular purpose, non-infringement, or that it will be error-free or
won't lose data. You use it at your own risk and are responsible for backing
up your files. Some places don't allow these exclusions, so some may not apply
to you.

9. Limit of liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, the Author is not liable for any
indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost
profits, lost data or business interruption, arising from the Software or this
agreement, even if told they might happen. The Author's total liability for any
claim is limited to the amount you paid for the Software in the 12 months
before the claim. Nothing in this agreement limits liability that cannot be
limited by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or
for fraud or wilful misconduct.

10. Ending this agreement

This agreement lasts until it is ended. It ends automatically if you break it.
The Author may also end it at any time by stopping distribution of the Software.
You can end it by uninstalling the Software and deleting all copies. When it
ends, you must stop using the Software and delete your copies. Sections 2, 3,
4, 8, 9, 10 and 11 survive.

11. General

a. Governing law and courts: this agreement is governed by the laws of the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and the courts of Luxembourg City have
jurisdiction, without affecting any mandatory consumer-protection rights you
have in the country where you live.
b. If a part of this agreement is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
c. Not enforcing a right isn't giving it up.
d. This is the entire agreement about the Software. The Author may publish a
new version of it with a new version of the Software; the version that
shipped with the copy you have applies to that copy.
e. You may not assign this agreement without the Author's written consent. The
Author may assign it, for example if PolyShot is sold or transferred.

12. Contact

Questions, licensing requests and permission to redistribute: see the contact
details on the PolyShot website.