Terms

There is no service. Here are the terms.

sigstop is a program you run on your own Mac. Nothing of ours sits between you and it: no account, no subscription, no server. Directories that list software ask for a terms page next to the privacy page, so this is that page, as short as the facts allow.

Covers the app, at v0.2.2, and this site.

1. 01The licence is the agreement

   The app and this site are free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3. Run it, read it, change it, pass it on, charge for it if you like, and if you distribute a changed copy the source goes with it under the same terms. Nothing on this page narrows the licence, and where the two disagree, the licence wins.

   LICENSE→

2. 02No warranty

   The licence says this in capitals, in sections 15 and 16, and it reads the same in lower case: the program is provided as is, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied, not that it is fit for any purpose and not that it will not break. The whole risk of using it is yours, and the authors are not liable for what it costs you, as far as the law lets them say so. The download is also ad-hoc signed, so macOS will call it damaged before you have run it. The README has the one command, and reading the source is the warranty.

3. 03No account, no payment, no service

   There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay, and no tier above the one you have, because there is only one. Nothing of ours runs on a server on your behalf: the app does its work on your Mac and keeps what it keeps in a folder you can open. A build that asks you for an account or a card is not this project.

4. 04One network request, and you make it

   The app opens one kind of connection: a GET of a static update feed, only when you press Check for updates in Settings, carrying no identifier and not even its own version. Every update it offers is checked against a signing key compiled into the app before it can install. The request reveals your IP address and the time to whoever serves the file, which today is GitHub, and nothing on our side changes that. The privacy page has the commands that show the rest.

   privacy→

5. 05This site

   Static pages. No analytics, no tracker, no cookie of its own, no font fetched from a third party: the dependency list is three entries long and you can read it. The theme switch writes one word into your own browser's local storage and reads it back from there and nowhere else. The pages are served by Vercel, and a host sees what every host sees, which address asked for which page and when. That log is the host's, under the host's terms, and nothing on these pages sends anything beyond the request for the page.

   package.json→

6. 06The name is not in the grant

   The code is GPL-3.0; the name sigstop and the mark are not part of that grant. Fork it, change it, ship it, under a name of your own. Saying your project is based on sigstop is fine and true. Shipping a modified build still called sigstop is the one thing that needs a different name, because the claims on the privacy page only hold while there is one sigstop to check them against.

   TRADEMARK.md→

7. 07Contact

   There is no support desk and no address to write to. Open an issue in the repository: it is where the maintainer reads, and it is public, so the next person with your question finds the answer. Bugs in the app go to the app's repository, and problems with this site go to its own.

   issues→

8. 08Changes

   These terms can change. The record of what changed, when, and in which commit is the git history of the file they are written in, which is more than most terms pages can say for themselves. Nothing is announced by email, because nobody here has your email.

   git log→