Brønd Licence Agreement

1. The agreement
Brønd is published by Nhat Dang as a private individual. By using Brønd you accept this agreement. If you do not accept it, you may not use Brønd, and you can simply delete it.

2. Your right to use Brønd
Brønd is free. You get a personal, non-transferable right to install and use Brønd on your own computers. You may not sell, rent out or pass on Brønd as part of a product or service without written permission, and you may not remove copyright or licence notices.

3. The language models
The models are downloaded separately from Hugging Face when you ask for them, and have their own licences. DFM-Mimir belongs to Danish Foundation Models (Apache 2.0). The speech model hviske-v6 is made by syv.ai (CC BY-NC 4.0) and is for non-commercial use only, so dictation and transcribing recordings may only be used for non-commercial purposes. Brønd is an independent project, not made or endorsed by Danish Foundation Models or syv.ai.

4. Answers can be wrong
Brønd writes text with a small language model. Answers can be wrong, out of date or one-sided, and the model can invent names, numbers, sources and events that do not exist, and state them as confidently as what is true. Check important information in a reliable source, and do not rely on Brønd alone for decisions about health, law, money or safety. You are responsible for how you use what Brønd writes.

5. Your data
Your conversations, notes, memory and recordings stay on your computer. Brønd has no account and no tracking, and does not send your content anywhere. Brønd goes online only to download the language models from Hugging Face when you ask, and to look for and download new versions of Brønd if you allow it (see section 6).

6. Updates
At first start Brønd asks whether it may keep itself up to date. If you say yes:
• Every second week Brønd asks whether it may look for a new version now. It looks only when you answer yes.
• Brønd then fetches a small file with the latest version number from broend.usual.dk. The request contains nothing about you or your content, and the server does not keep your IP address in its log.
• If there is a newer version, Brønd downloads and installs it automatically. Every new version is digitally signed by the publisher, and Brønd installs it only if the signature is valid. The new version is used when Brønd restarts. Your conversations, notes, memory and language models are not touched.
• If Brønd cannot install it itself, for example because it is in a place where you may not change files, you get a link to the website instead.
If you say no, Brønd never looks for new versions, and you can download them yourself from broend.usual.dk. You can change your choice in Settings at any time.

7. Other people's software
Brønd uses software by others under their own licences, among them Qt (LGPL 3) in the Windows and Linux version and Swift (Apache 2.0). The licences come with the program.

8. No warranty
Brønd is provided as is, without any warranty that it works without errors or interruptions or suits a particular purpose, as far as the law allows. Keep backups of your notes.

9. Liability
Nhat Dang is not liable for losses arising from the use of Brønd or from what Brønd writes, including lost data, indirect and consequential losses, as far as the law allows. Rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived are not limited by this agreement.

10. Changes and ending
If the agreement changes in substance, you are asked to accept it again. You can stop using Brønd at any time by deleting it and its data folder.

11. Governing law and contact
This agreement is governed by Danish law. Contact: Nhat Dang, nhatdang (at) gmail.com, broend.usual.dk.

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