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Terms & Conditions

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Short version: the software is source-available and free for personal use and for charities, schools and public bodies; business use needs a paid licence. It is provided as-is with no warranty. Use it responsibly and only download content you have the right to download.

The software

Goel° (the macOS app, GoelDaemon, Goel° Web and the browser extensions) is source-available software distributed under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 license. That license governs your use of the software; these terms don't restrict any rights it grants you.

It permits any noncommercial purpose. Personal, hobby and student use is free. Use by a charity, school, university, public research body, public safety or health organisation, environmental protection organisation or government institution is also free — the license's Noncommercial Organizations clause permits it outright, regardless of how you are funded. Use in the course of a business, by a contractor in billable work, or on a company's managed/MDM fleet requires a commercial license — see commercial licensing. Deploying by MDM does not itself trigger that: a school or charity managing its own machines with Jamf, Intune or Munki stays on the free side.

As that license states, the software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind — express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. You use it at your own risk, and the authors are not liable for any claim or damages arising from its use.

Bundled third-party components (libtorrent, libssh2, libcurl, OpenSSL, yt-dlp, Sparkle and others) remain under their own licenses — see the third-party notices.

Acceptable use

Goel° is a tool for transferring files over HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and HLS. You are responsible for what you download and share with it. Only download or seed content you own, that is freely licensed, or that you otherwise have the right to access. Respect the terms of the sites and servers you connect to.

This website

The content of this site is provided for information. Demo data shown in the interactive product previews is illustrative, not a measurement or guarantee of performance. We may change or remove any part of the site at any time.

The site links out to external services (GitHub, for source code and releases). We are not responsible for their content or terms.

Names and marks

"Goel°" and the Goel° icon identify this project. Product names of third parties (macOS, Chrome, Firefox and others) belong to their respective owners and are used only to describe compatibility.

Changes

If these terms change, the update will be published on this page with a new date. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Questions? Open an issue on the GitHub repository.