Terms of Service

By accessing the OpenKara website or using the OpenKara desktop app, you agree to these Terms of Service.

These terms apply to the OpenKara website, downloadable desktop app, and any project-operated pages or distribution surfaces that link to these terms, unless a separate written agreement expressly applies.

OpenKara is open-source desktop software intended to help users turn music they already own into karaoke tracks, manage karaoke libraries, and sync those libraries to storage providers they choose.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the legal right to use, process, copy, sync, or play any music files, lyrics, artwork, or other content that you access through OpenKara.

You are also responsible for protecting your own devices, accounts, backups, and local credential stores.

You must not use OpenKara in a way that violates applicable law, infringes intellectual property rights, circumvents access controls, abuses third-party APIs, or interferes with the normal operation of the website, software, or connected services.

You may use OpenKara only for legitimate personal, educational, development, or other lawful purposes. You may not use the project website or app to distribute malware, automate abusive traffic, harvest credentials, attack third-party services, or misrepresent your identity or rights in content.

OpenKara may interoperate with third-party services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, WebDAV servers, lyrics providers, and package or hosting platforms.

Your use of those services remains subject to their own terms, policies, and availability. OpenKara does not control those services and is not responsible for their downtime, account restrictions, API changes, or content policies.

If a third-party provider suspends, limits, or revokes your access, OpenKara may lose the ability to access that provider on your behalf, and related features may stop working until you restore that access.

The OpenKara website may link to external repositories, documentation, package managers, cloud providers, or media resources. Those external sites are controlled by their own operators, not by OpenKara.

You are responsible for reviewing the integrity, authenticity, and terms of any third-party download, service, or website you choose to use.

OpenKara is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the extent permitted by law, the project makes no warranties regarding reliability, availability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or uninterrupted operation.

To the extent permitted by law, the OpenKara project and contributors are not liable for loss of data, interruption of service, account issues, content disputes, or any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages resulting from use of the website or app.

The OpenKara source code is distributed under the MIT License. These Terms of Service govern use of the public website and project service surface; the software license remains the governing license for source code redistribution and modification.

Use of the OpenKara website and app is also subject to the Privacy Policy, which explains how data is handled for the website, local desktop workflow, and supported cloud integrations.

The project may change, suspend, or discontinue website content, download links, release channels, or integrations at any time, especially if upstream APIs, hosting, legal requirements, or maintenance capacity change.

These terms may be updated from time to time as the project evolves, including when cloud integrations, website hosting, or compliance requirements change.

The version published on the OpenKara website is the current version for future use of the website and app.

For questions about these terms, use the project contact information published on the OpenKara website or GitHub repository.