License
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- Permission. You may download, install and use Hourlet free of charge, for personal or commercial purposes, on any number of Macs you own or control. You may share the unmodified download link.
- Restrictions. You may not sell Hourlet, redistribute modified copies, or remove this notice.
- Source code. Where the source code is made available, you may read it and build Hourlet from it for your own personal use on Macs you own or control. You may not distribute builds or copies of the source, or publish modified versions or derivative works. All other rights in the source code are reserved.
- Acceptable use. Focus Guard is a tool for managing your own focus. Use it only on a Mac you use yourself, or with the informed consent of the person who uses it. Do not use Hourlet to monitor other people.
- Your data. Hourlet stores your tasks, focus history and settings only on your Mac. You are responsible for keeping your own backups. The automatic backups and the Export feature are provided as a convenience and are not guaranteed to prevent every loss.
- Third-party software. Hourlet includes open-source components, such as Sparkle, that are provided under their own licenses. Those licenses are included with Hourlet (Settings › General › About › Acknowledgements) and listed below, and they govern those components.
- No warranty. Hourlet 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.
- Limitation of liability. In no event shall the author or copyright holder be liable for any claim, damages (including loss of data) or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with Hourlet or its use. Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions; in that case they apply to the fullest extent the law permits.
- Trademarks. Product, company and website names mentioned in Hourlet or on this site, such as Apple, Mac, macOS, Safari, Apple Music, Spotify, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera, Firefox, Instagram and YouTube, are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to identify them. Apple, Mac, macOS, Safari and Apple Music are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. Spotify is a trademark of Spotify AB. Hourlet is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by any of them.
- Changes. Later versions of Hourlet may come with updated terms, which apply to those versions.
By installing or using Hourlet you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, delete it.
Open-source software
Hourlet uses Sparkle to install updates. Its license, including the licenses of the code it contains:
Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Andy Matuschak. Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Elgato Systems GmbH. Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Kornel Lesiński. Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Mayur Pawashe. Copyright (c) 2014 C.W. Betts. Copyright (c) 2014 Petroules Corporation. Copyright (c) 2014 Big Nerd Ranch. All rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. 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