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Copyright: 2012 - 2024 ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP adrelanos(at)whonix.org (Replace (at) with @.)Please DO NOT use e-mail for one of the following reasons: Private Contact: Please avoid e-mail whenever possible. (Private Communications Policy) User Support Questions: No. (See Support.) Leaks Submissions: No. (No Leaks Policy) Sponsored posts: No. Paid links: No. SEO reviews: No.

Whonix is copyrighted by ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP and licensed under the same Freedom Software license as Whonix itself.

Trademark

Whonix is a trademark. See Whonix Trademark Policy.

Patents

Whonix is a community member ( licensee ) of the Open Invention Network .

Conditions for Contributions to Whonix

ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP, who has funded and run the Whonix project since the beginning, and who has contributed the majority of Whonix specific code would like to have a right to redistribute parts of this code under proprietary licenses.

That’s why we ask every developer who contributes code to Whonix project to transfer copyright to ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP and permission to reuse the code under a different license. Our Terms of Service apply.

License

Software

• Compilation License vs Individual Software Package License: The Whonix software is a compilation of software packages, each under its own license.
• Individual Software Package License:
  • Various Licenses: Go to the list of Whonix repositories, pick a repository such as for example security-misc to open security-misc's COPYING file to learn about each software package's individual license.
• Compilation License:
  • License long description used for the the compilation: The compilation is made available the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version with additional terms applicable per GNU GPL version 3 section 7.
  • License short identifier for the compilation: The license can be refereed to as AGPL-3+-with-additional-terms-1.
  • Commentary: For comments - which however are not part of the license - why this license was chosen, see our wiki page Dev/Licensing.

Copyright: 2012 - 2024 ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP <adrelanos@whonix.org>
License: AGPL-3+-with-additional-terms-1
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.
On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public
License version 3 can be found in the file
`/usr/share/common-licenses/AGPL-3'.
.
ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE per GNU AGPL version 3 section 7
.
1. Replacement of Section 15.  Section 15 of the AGPL shall be deleted in its
entirety and replaced with the following:
.
15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
.
THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE AND MERCHANTABILITY.  THE PROGRAM IS BEING
DELIVERED OR MADE AVAILABLE 'AS IS', 'WITH ALL FAULTS' AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OR
REPRESENTATION.  THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF
ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
.
2. Replacement of Section 16.  Section 16 of the AGPL shall be deleted in its
entirety and replaced with the following:
.
16. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR ITS AFFILIATES, OR ANY
OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE
LIABLE TO YOU, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, FOR ANY
DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH
THE PROGRAM(INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE
PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), WHETHER OR NOT ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER
OR SUCH OTHER PARTY RECEIVES NOTICE OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES AND WHETHER OR NOT SUCH
DAMAGES COULD HAVE BEEN FORESEEN.
.
3. LEGAL NOTICES; NO TRADEMARK LICENSE; ORIGIN.  You must reproduce faithfully
all trademark, copyright and other proprietary and legal notices on any copies
of the Program or any other required author attributions.  This license does not
grant you rights to use any copyright holder or any other party's name, logo, or
trademarks.  Neither the name of the copyright holder or its affiliates, or any
other party who modifies and/or conveys the Program may be used to endorse or
promote products derived from this software without specific prior written
permission.  The origin of the Program must not be misrepresented; you must not
claim that you wrote the original Program.  Altered source versions must be
plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original
Program.
.
4. INDEMNIFICATION.  IF YOU CONVEY A COVERED WORK AND AGREE WITH ANY RECIPIENT
OF THAT COVERED WORK THAT YOU WILL ASSUME ANY LIABILITY FOR THAT COVERED WORK,
YOU HEREBY AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD HARMLESS THE OTHER LICENSORS AND
AUTHORS OF THAT COVERED WORK FOR ANY DAMAGES, DEMANDS, CLAIMS, LOSSES, CAUSES OF
ACTION, LAWSUITS, JUDGMENTS EXPENSES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION REASONABLE
ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES) OR ANY OTHER LIABILITY ARISING FROM, RELATED TO OR
IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ASSUMPTIONS OF LIABILITY.

Wiki

For the following reasons, only the plain text is licensed:

• The design, html, CSS, and JavaScript (mediawiki) aren’t copyrighted by Whonix. These rely upon the license provided by mediawiki / any wiki skins / extensions Whonix is using. Anybody interested in using these elements is better off acquiring it from the origin/upstream and not from Whonix, since Whonix does not fork it. This description is purposefully generic in nature. The actual current license (version) of mediawiki is deliberately unmentioned. This avoids inaccuracies and publications becoming outdated at a later time. The reader is recommended to seek this information from the original mediawiki source.
• Illustrative images (See Missing Libre Illustrative Images for examples) are not copyrighted by Whonix.
• Some screenshots might be Freedom Software licensed by third parties but still not be copyrighted by Whonix or under a Whonix license.

The Whonix wiki text is a compilation of documentation, each under its own license.
The compilation is made available the terms of the AGPL-3+-with-additional-terms-1, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version with additional terms applicable per AGNU GPL version 3 section 7.

The license can be refereed to as AGPL-3+-with-additional-terms-1.
For considerations - which however are not part of the license - why this license was chosen, see our wiki page Dev/Licensing.

Individual pages utilizing different licenses mention these in the wiki source code. This can be viewed when using the edit function (Actions → Edit) and/or when downloading Whonix wiki source code. Additionally, this is mentioned in the chapter License for applicable wiki pages.

Copyright: 2012 - 2024 ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP <adrelanos@whonix.org>
License: AGPL-3+-with-additional-terms-1
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.
On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public
License version 3 can be found in the file
`/usr/share/common-licenses/AGPL-3'.
.
ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE per GNU AGPL version 3 section 7
.
1. Replacement of Section 15.  Section 15 of the AGPL shall be deleted in its
entirety and replaced with the following:
.
15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
.
THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE AND MERCHANTABILITY.  THE PROGRAM IS BEING
DELIVERED OR MADE AVAILABLE 'AS IS', 'WITH ALL FAULTS' AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OR
REPRESENTATION.  THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF
ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
.
2. Replacement of Section 16.  Section 16 of the AGPL shall be deleted in its
entirety and replaced with the following:
.
16. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR ITS AFFILIATES, OR ANY
OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE
LIABLE TO YOU, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, FOR ANY
DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH
THE PROGRAM(INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE
PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), WHETHER OR NOT ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER
OR SUCH OTHER PARTY RECEIVES NOTICE OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES AND WHETHER OR NOT SUCH
DAMAGES COULD HAVE BEEN FORESEEN.
.
3. LEGAL NOTICES; NO TRADEMARK LICENSE; ORIGIN.  You must reproduce faithfully
all trademark, copyright and other proprietary and legal notices on any copies
of the Program or any other required author attributions.  This license does not
grant you rights to use any copyright holder or any other party's name, logo, or
trademarks.  Neither the name of the copyright holder or its affiliates, or any
other party who modifies and/or conveys the Program may be used to endorse or
promote products derived from this software without specific prior written
permission.  The origin of the Program must not be misrepresented; you must not
claim that you wrote the original Program.  Altered source versions must be
plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original
Program.
.
4. INDEMNIFICATION.  IF YOU CONVEY A COVERED WORK AND AGREE WITH ANY RECIPIENT
OF THAT COVERED WORK THAT YOU WILL ASSUME ANY LIABILITY FOR THAT COVERED WORK,
YOU HEREBY AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD HARMLESS THE OTHER LICENSORS AND
AUTHORS OF THAT COVERED WORK FOR ANY DAMAGES, DEMANDS, CLAIMS, LOSSES, CAUSES OF
ACTION, LAWSUITS, JUDGMENTS EXPENSES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION REASONABLE
ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES) OR ANY OTHER LIABILITY ARISING FROM, RELATED TO OR
IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ASSUMPTIONS OF LIABILITY.

License Links

GNU Affero General Public License version 3

The full version of the AGPLv3 can be found here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

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