MAPu Early access

End-user license agreement (EULA)

1. What this is about

MAPu is a Windows program that adds gauges and a map-based minimap to action camera footage and produces a new video file. This text describes what you are allowed to do with the program, and what liability we accept for it. It's short, because that's really all there is to it.

2. Right of use

You may use the program for an unlimited time, on as many of your own computers as you like, for both personal and business purposes. You may make copies of it and pass it on, unmodified, together with this same text. The finished videos are yours: MAPu claims no rights over them and does not watermark them.

3. What you may do, and what you may not

The program was built with open extension points, and you are welcome to use them:

  • You may write your own gauges or rework the existing ones: in the installation's resources\dash-modules folder one file is one gauge, and their contract is the resources\docs\DASH-MODULE-CONTRACT.md next to it. Gauges you make this way are yours to distribute freely.
  • You may replace the bundled FFmpeg with another build (see section 4).
  • The rest of the program ships in readable source form; on your own computer you may modify that too.

What you may not do:

  • Sell or distribute the program — modified or not — under a different name or as your own product, or pass on a modified version as MAPu. (This does not apply to the open-source components shipped inside it: those are governed by their own licenses — the list is in the program: Help → About → "Third-party licenses".)
  • Remove or obscure the source attribution shown on the map ("© OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors"). This is not a cosmetic matter: the map data's license (ODbL) requires it, so the program writes it onto every map gauge, and there is no switch to turn it off.
  • Use the program to produce infringing content. You are responsible for what you put into your videos.

4. The bundled ffmpeg

Video encoding is performed by the FFmpeg copy bundled with the program, which is a separate program: MAPu does not link against it, but launches it as an independent process. FFmpeg is shipped under the terms of the GNU GPL v3, and that component is governed by the GPL's rights — not this agreement. The full license text and the exact build designation are in the license list on the program's About page; the complete source code (including the statically linked libraries) can be downloaded from the original upstream repositories, at the exact revisions — the manifest that says, item by item, where from, is the installation's resources\vendor\ffmpeg\SOURCES.md (the same manifest is also readable at kotysoft.com/mapu/ffmpeg-src/SOURCES.md). The copy can be replaced: the ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe.exe in that same folder can be swapped for another build with the same capabilities. The license and copyright notices of the libraries compiled into it are in the same license list.

Nothing in this agreement limits the rights that the open-source components shipped with the program (FFmpeg among them) grant under their own licenses: where the two differ, a component is governed by its own license.

5. Trademarks

GoPro, Insta360, Garmin, and any other mentioned brand name belong to their rightful owners. The program mentions them only to state which files it can read; there is no manufacturer relationship, endorsement, or sponsorship behind it.

6. Warranty and liability

The program comes "as is": we do not promise that it is free of errors, that it works with every video and on every computer, or that it is fit for any particular purpose. The program does not overwrite or delete your original footage, but keep a backup of anything important regardless.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for damage arising from its use — including data loss and lost profits. This limitation does not apply to damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, nor to damage to life, limb or health: we do not exclude liability for these. Nothing in this text takes away what the law that applies to you does not allow to be excluded: where a consumer protection or other mandatory rule of your country of residence or of the EU gives you more than this, that rule applies.

7. Privacy

The program collects no data about you; it has no account, analytics or advertising. Which network connections it makes (currently the update check and the map tiles) and what those reveal is described in a separate document, the Privacy notice — in the program (Help → About) and on kotysoft.com/mapu.

8. Changes, contact

This text, and with it the program's terms, may change in later versions; a version is always governed by the text that belongs to it, which can be read in the program (Help → About) at any time; the latest version is also on kotysoft.com/mapu. The program is not published by a company but by a private individual: Kotysoft (Tibor Kovacs, an independent developer), Ireland — "Kotysoft" is the publishing name. Contact: kotysoftc@gmail.com · kotysoft.com/mapu.

The program shows the same text (Help → About).