# Phonestra Freeware Licence

Phonestra
Copyright (c) 2026 Nicola Fiorillo. All rights reserved.

This licence applies to Phonestra from the first version released after
1.0.0-rc.8. Versions up to and including 1.0.0-rc.8 were released under their
own licence (free personal use only, `LICENSE-1.0.0-rc.8-and-earlier.md`), and
copies of those versions keep that licence.

## 1. Definitions

- **"Phonestra"** means the AppImage file `Phonestra-<version>-x86_64.AppImage`
  and everything it contains that is not a third-party component (section 6),
  including the program `phonestra` and the component that Phonestra copies to
  the phone (`phonestra-helper.jar`), the manuals and every other file
  published with them by the Author.
- **"Author"** means Nicola Fiorillo.
- **"You"** means any person or organisation that obtains a copy of Phonestra.
- **"Commercial Offering"** means anything offered for a fee or as part of a
  business, including: software, operating systems, hardware, pre-installed or
  bundled software, subscriptions, cloud or hosted services, support, training
  or consulting.

## 2. What you may do, free of charge

1. **Use** Phonestra for any purpose, on any number of computers and with any
   number of phones, privately or at work, including as a tool while doing
   paid work.
2. **Copy** Phonestra and **give it to others**, unchanged and free of charge,
   together with this licence.
3. **Run** the AppImage in any way it allows: make it executable, move or
   rename it, extract it (`--appimage-extract`) to run it, add it to your
   desktop's menu. These are not modifications under section 3.
4. **Include** Phonestra in a collection of software (for example a software
   repository or a disk of programs) only if the whole collection is given
   away free of charge, Phonestra is unchanged, and this licence is included.

## 3. What you may not do without a written licence from the Author

1. **Sell** Phonestra, or charge any fee for it, for copies of it, or for
   access to it.
2. **Include, bundle, pre-install, or distribute** Phonestra as part of, or
   together with, a Commercial Offering, or offer a Commercial Offering whose
   value comes, entirely or substantially, from Phonestra.
3. **Modify** Phonestra, translate it or create derivative works of it, except
   as allowed in sections 2.3 and 6.
4. **Decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer** Phonestra, except as allowed
   in section 6 and to the extent that applicable law expressly permits it
   notwithstanding this limitation (in the European Union, Articles 5(3) and 6
   of Directive 2009/24/EC; in Italy, Articles 64-ter and 64-quater of Law
   no. 633 of 22 April 1941).
5. **Remove or alter** the copyright notices, this licence, or the name of the
   Author.
6. **Use the name "Phonestra" or its logo** to suggest that the Author
   endorses you, your product or your service.

## 4. Commercial licences

To do anything in section 3, for example to include Phonestra in a product,
write to **phonestra@nicfio.it**. The Author may grant a commercial licence or
transfer the project, on terms agreed case by case. Nothing in this licence
obliges the Author to do either.

## 5. Ownership

Phonestra is licensed, not sold. The Author keeps all rights not expressly
granted here, including the copyright in the program and in the manuals.

## 6. Third-party components

The third-party components distributed with Phonestra (libraries in the
AppImage and libraries built into the program) keep their own licences,
listed in `NOTICE.md` and included in the AppImage
(`usr/share/doc/phonestra/`). Nothing in this licence limits the rights that
those licences give you. In particular, where a library under the GNU Lesser
General Public License is linked into Phonestra, you may modify Phonestra for
your own use and reverse engineer it to debug such modifications, as that
licence requires; this does not allow you to distribute the modified copy.

## 7. No warranty

Phonestra is provided **"as is"**, without warranty of any kind, express or
implied, including the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose and non-infringement. Phonestra connects to the phone through
Android's Wireless debugging and changes some of its settings while in use:
you use it at your own risk.

## 8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Author is not liable
for any damage arising from the use of Phonestra or from the inability to use
it, including loss of data and loss of business. This does not limit
liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for wilful
misconduct or gross negligence (Article 1229 of the Italian Civil Code).

## 9. Termination

This licence ends automatically if you break it. You must then stop using
Phonestra and destroy your copies. Sections 5 to 10 survive the end of the
licence.

## 10. Governing law

This licence is governed by Italian law. Any dispute belongs to the courts of
Rome, Italy, except where the law gives a consumer the right to their own
court.