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Draft of ⁨November 4, 2026⁩

License agreement

This agreement is between you and us, and covers installing and using Compiler. Buying it is covered by the terms of sale.

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This page is a draft. It isn't in force until it's reviewed and published, and what's marked below is still to settle.

Who we are

Company
Garciel Inc.
Address
76 Pl. Montmorency, Laval, QC H7N 1T6
Email
support@compiler.tv

What a license lets you do

A license lets you install Compiler and use every feature on up to two computers at a time. The monthly plan does the same while you subscribe.

The free trial lets you use every feature on one computer for 14 days. Each computer gets one trial, ever, and starting it needs a connection.

Without a trial or a license, Compiler runs in limited mode. It records one stream at a time, for up to 10 minutes, with no auto-recording or uploads.

To settleWhether a license is for one person, and whether business use is allowed.

Computers

Activating a computer takes one of the license's two places. To move the license to another computer, deactivate the first from the customer portal, which lists your computers and when each last checked in.

Each computer checks in with our license server to keep its license current, at launch, every 6 hours and when it wakes. Offline, it keeps working for up to three weeks after its last check-in, then goes to limited mode until it's back online.

A license is tied to the computer it was activated on. Copied to another computer, it doesn't work there.

If a computer's clock is set back by more than 6 hours, Compiler stops until the clock is right again.

Updates

A license includes the updates released during its year of updates. After that, the app keeps working, and installs no update released later until you buy another year.

The monthly plan includes every update while you subscribe. After 12 paid months, the version you have is yours to keep, with every update released until your last paid month ends.

Compiler checks that an update is signed by us before it installs it.

What you agree not to do

  • Share your license key, or use a license on more computers than it allows.
  • Get around the license's checks, or help someone else to.

We may suspend or revoke a license used against this agreement, such as a key shared beyond its computers.

What you record

Compiler records, downloads and edits what you ask it to. Make sure you have the right to, and use what you make within the law and the terms of the sites it comes from.

Open-source parts

This software uses libraries from the FFmpeg project under the LGPLv2.1. Compiler includes the FFmpeg programs ffmpeg and ffprobe, licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later. Their source code and build configuration are published with each release, beside its downloads.

Nothing in this agreement limits your rights under that licence, including your right to modify FFmpeg and to reverse engineer Compiler as far as needed to debug such modifications.

On Windows and Linux, Compiler can download Cisco's OpenH264 binary to encode H.264, once you turn it on. OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. Its licence follows in full, as it asks. It covers personal, non-commercial encoding only.

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About The Cisco-Provided Binary of OpenH264 Video Codec
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Cisco provides this program under the terms of the BSD license.

Additionally, this binary is licensed under Cisco’s AVC/H.264 Patent Portfolio License from MPEG LA, at no cost to you, provided that the requirements and conditions shown below in the AVC/H.264 Patent Portfolio sections are met.

As with all AVC/H.264 codecs, you may also obtain your own patent license from MPEG LA or from the individual patent owners, or proceed at your own risk.  Your rights from Cisco under the BSD license are not affected by this choice.

For more information on the OpenH264 binary licensing, please see the OpenH264 FAQ found at http://www.openh264.org/faq.html#binary

A corresponding source code to this binary program is available under the same BSD terms, which can be found at http://www.openh264.org

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BSD License
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Copyright © 2014 Cisco Systems, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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AVC/H.264 Patent Portfolio License Notice
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The binary form of this Software is distributed by Cisco under the AVC/H.264 Patent Portfolio License from MPEG LA, and is subject to the following requirements, which may or may not be applicable to your use of this software:

THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL USE OF A CONSUMER OR OTHER USES IN WHICH IT DOES NOT RECEIVE REMUNERATION TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC STANDARD (“AVC VIDEO”) AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO.  NO LICENSE IS GRANTED OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE.  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. SEE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM

Accordingly, please be advised that content providers and broadcasters using AVC/H.264 in their service may be required to obtain a separate use license from MPEG LA, referred to as "(b) sublicenses" in the SUMMARY OF AVC/H.264 LICENSE TERMS from MPEG LA found at http://www.openh264.org/mpegla

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AVC/H.264 Patent Portfolio License Conditions
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In addition, the Cisco-provided binary of this Software is licensed under Cisco's license from MPEG LA only if the following conditions are met:

1. The Cisco-provided binary is separately downloaded to an end user’s device, and not integrated into or combined with third party software prior to being downloaded to the end user’s device;

2. The end user must have the ability to control (e.g., to enable, disable, or re-enable) the use of the Cisco-provided binary;

3. Third party software, in the location where end users can control the use of the Cisco-provided binary, must display the following text:

       "OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc."

4.  Any third-party software that makes use of the Cisco-provided binary must reproduce all of the above text, as well as this last condition, in the EULA and/or in another location where licensing information is to be presented to the end user.



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The app's third-party notices, in Settings → Advanced, list every open-source part and its licence in full.

When it ends

A refunded license ends, on every computer it's on.

A monthly plan cancelled before 12 paid months ends when its last paid month does.

Warranty, liability and the law

Nothing in this agreement takes away rights the law gives you where you live.

To settleThe warranty, the limits of liability and the law that governs this agreement, for a lawyer to write.