End user licence agreement

This agreement is between you and Miguel A. Gabriel (the licensor), the copyright holder of Book Artisan, and it governs your use of your copy of the software. Installing it, or using it, means you accept these terms.

1. The software and its editions

Book Artisan is a desktop application for writing and producing books. It is proprietary software: it is licensed to you, not sold.

The software has two editions. Basic mode is free of charge. Pro mode requires a licence key (a “Pro key”) and unlocks the capabilities the software and the website describe as Pro.

The software needs no account and no connection to the licensor to run.

2. Grant of licence

In Basic mode the licensor grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the software, for private or commercial work alike, free of charge, on the machines you own or control and are the primary user of.

With a valid Pro key the same grant extends to the Pro capabilities. A Pro key is issued to one person and may be used on the machines that person uses. The licence is perpetual: it does not expire and nothing is due to renew it.

The licence covers the software as you received it. It does not by itself entitle you to every future version: what you may expect to receive is set out in section 7, and nothing in this agreement promises a particular version, a timetable, or an update for ever.

This licence is not a sale, and every right not expressly granted in it is reserved by the licensor.

3. What you may do

Use the software to create, publish, sell and distribute your own books. You keep every right over what you produce with it, and the licensor claims none of it.
Make copies of the software for backup and archival purposes.
Install the software on a replacement machine when the previous one is retired, provided it is not in use on both at the same time.

4. What you may not do

Copy, redistribute, sublicense, sell, rent, lease, lend or otherwise make the software, a Pro key or any part of either available to a third party. Pro keys are issued per person and are revoked if distributed or sold.
Modify, adapt or translate the software, create derivative works from it, or incorporate any part of it into another product.
Reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, or attempt to discover its source code, structure or algorithms, except to the extent that a restriction of this kind cannot lawfully be imposed on you.
Circumvent, disable or interfere with the licence checks, or use a Pro key the licensor did not issue.
Remove or alter any copyright, licence or other proprietary notice from the software or from its documentation.
Use the software to develop, or to help develop, a competing product.

5. Your content

The text, the images and any other material you put into the software are yours. The software works on them locally and the licensor never receives them.

You are responsible for holding the rights needed to use that material, and for what you do with the books you produce.

6. Third-party components

The software includes third-party components — Qt for Python, the bundled typefaces, the spell-check dictionaries and other libraries — which keep their own licences. Their notices and full texts are distributed with the software and listed in its user guide.

7. Updates, support and changes to this agreement

The licensor may publish new versions. Nothing obliges the licensor to do so, and nothing in this agreement entitles you to receive one.

A new version is governed by the agreement distributed with it. Where that agreement differs from this one, the one that accompanies the version you install applies to that version.

Support is offered by e-mail, as available. It is not a paid service and no level of service is promised.

The licensor may change this agreement for future versions. Continuing to use a version after a change means you accept the changed agreement for that version.

8. Warranty

The software 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 non-infringement.

The licensor does not warrant that the software will be uninterrupted or error-free, nor that the files it generates will be free of defects or suitable for a particular purpose, printer, shop or platform.

Keep your own backups. Do not let the software be the only copy of anything you cannot afford to lose.

9. Liability

To the maximum extent the law that applies to you permits, the licensor is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damage, nor for lost profits, lost data or interrupted business, arising from the use of the software or from the inability to use it.

To the same extent, the total liability of the licensor under this agreement is limited to the amount you actually paid for the software.

Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, and nothing in it affects the statutory rights of a consumer.

10. Term and termination

This licence runs for as long as you comply with it and is perpetual.

It terminates immediately if you breach it. On termination you must stop using the software and remove it from your machines, and the Pro key stops being valid.

Sections 3 to 9 survive termination.

11. Consumers

If you acquired the software as a consumer, the mandatory rules of the country where you live protect you and nothing in this agreement takes them away, including the statutory remedies for a defective product.

Buying a Pro key is also governed by the terms of sale, which describe the price, the delivery, the right of withdrawal and refunds.

12. Trademarks

The software works with products that belong to others, and this agreement and the documentation name some of them. Prince, PrinceXML and Prince for Books, WeasyPrint, Qt and PySide, Microsoft Windows and the Microsoft Store, Amazon Kindle and Kindle Direct Publishing, Linux, Chromium, Flatpak, Flathub, GitHub and Lucide are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Those names are used only to identify the products they refer to. There is no affiliation with, sponsorship by or endorsement from their owners, and nothing in this agreement gives you any right over them.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

This agreement is governed by the law of Spain. The courts of the licensor's domicile have jurisdiction, except where the law that protects you as a consumer gives you the right to bring the case before other courts, which it does not take away.

14. Contact

Miguel A. Gabriel — [email protected]

If any provision of this agreement turns out to be unenforceable, the rest remains in force. This agreement, together with the terms of sale where they apply, is the whole agreement between you and the licensor about the software.