CaptionForge Source-Available License 1.0 Version date: 2026-10-04 Copyright (c) 2026 Yordin Isaac Garcia (NidroySoft). Original creator: Yordin Isaac Garcia. Original project: https://github.com/NidroySoft/CaptionForge 1. Scope and definitions The "Licensor" is Yordin Isaac Garcia, identified above. "You" is the individual or organization exercising the permissions in this license. "Covered Software" means the original CaptionForge code and associated project material that the Licensor owns and provides under this license, and copies, modifications, and derivative works containing that material. A different name, interface, package, version, or substantial addition does not remove these conditions from the Covered Software it contains. Third-party code, dependencies, models, fonts, effects, media, and other material identified as separately licensed are excluded from this grant. Their own rights holders and licenses govern them. This license cannot restrict rights granted independently for those components. 2. Permissions Subject to the conditions below, the Licensor grants You a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free copyright license to obtain, inspect, run, reproduce, modify, and incorporate the Covered Software, and to distribute it in source or compiled form free of charge. These permissions cover personal, educational, organizational, professional, and commercial use. You may use the Covered Software in paid work, create monetized content, provide services to clients, and charge for the results of that work, subject to the distinction in Section 3. You do not need to disclose private modifications. You may distribute modified versions free of charge, subject to Sections 3 and 4. This license does not require disclosure of the source code of Your own additions. Each recipient may exercise the same permissions for Covered Software under this license. You may not grant rights to sell it or remove these conditions from the Covered Software in a downstream distribution. 3. No sale of the Covered Software You may not sell copies or licenses of the Covered Software, including modified, renamed, repackaged, or compiled versions. Specifically, You may not require money or other consideration in exchange for a copy, download, software license, activation, or unlocking of the Covered Software. This includes a mandatory subscription, mandatory "donation", paid upgrade, or payment through an intermediary for that purpose. Distribution of Covered Software may not be conditional on buying another product or service, including a paid bundle containing it. Charging for work performed WITH the Covered Software is permitted. Charging for the Covered Software ITSELF is not permitted. You may charge for videos, subtitles, editing, transcription work, and other deliverables or services produced using the Covered Software. You may also charge for separately offered support, training, consulting, installation assistance, or maintenance services, provided the Covered Software and the permissions to use it remain available without requiring purchase of those services. These exceptions do not authorize selling a copy or license under another description. Genuinely optional donations are permitted if refusing a donation does not prevent obtaining or using the Covered Software or a distributed feature. 4. Preservation of attribution and terms Every distribution of Covered Software, including a modified version or a substantial portion incorporated into another distribution, must include: (a) this complete license; and (b) the following attribution, supplied in a readable notice: CaptionForge was originally created by Yordin Isaac Garcia (NidroySoft). Original project: https://github.com/NidroySoft/CaptionForge Copyright (c) 2026 Yordin Isaac Garcia. The accompanying NOTICE file is a suitable way to supply that attribution. For a source distribution, keep these notices with the source. For a compiled distribution, include readable license and notice files with the application or make them accessible in its documentation or About screen. You may not remove, conceal, or replace the original attribution when redistributing the Covered Software. You may add credit and copyright notices for Your own contributions, and may rename a modified version. You must not claim to be the original creator of CaptionForge or imply that the original creator endorses Your version without permission. No attribution under this license is required in videos, subtitles, or other output merely because the Covered Software was used to produce it. Private use does not require a public attribution announcement. 5. Output, third-party rights, and exceptions This license makes no claim of ownership over Your input or output. Its sale restriction does not apply to such output merely because the Covered Software generated or processed it. Any independent restrictions on third-party content or resources still apply. Preserve third-party copyright and license notices as their licenses require. In particular, the separately identified Whisper.net compatibility source remains under its own MIT license. This license does not convert that source or its independently licensed rights to a no-sale license. Nothing here limits rights You have under applicable law that do not require the Licensor's permission, or rights received under a separate license from the relevant rights holder. Previously granted rights under another license are not revoked by this document. 6. Reserved rights and separate permission Ownership of the Licensor's material is retained by the Licensor. Rights not granted here are reserved. No trademark, endorsement, or exclusive ownership right is granted by this license. A separate written permission from the Licensor may authorize an activity that this license does not permit. A change to future licensing terms does not withdraw the permissions granted for copies already received under this version, provided You comply with it. 7. Termination Your permissions under this license terminate if You materially violate its conditions. For a first violation, they are automatically reinstated if You correct the violation within 30 days after receiving written notice from the Licensor. Otherwise, reinstatement requires written permission from the Licensor. Termination does not remove the rights of recipients who received copies under this license and continue to comply with it. 8. No warranty; limitation of liability To the extent allowed by applicable law, the Covered Software is provided as available and without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of quality, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, accuracy, or non-infringement. The Licensor does not promise that the software is error-free, compatible with every version of CapCut, or suitable for any particular project. To the extent allowed by applicable law, the Licensor is not liable for loss of data, project damage, lost revenue, interruption of business, or other damages arising from use, distribution, or inability to use the Covered Software. These limitations do not exclude liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. 9. Interpretation This is a custom source-available license permitting commercial use but restricting sale of the Covered Software. It is not an MIT, GPL, Apache, PolyForm, Creative Commons, or OSI-approved open-source license. If a provision is unenforceable under applicable law, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent legally possible. No provision should be interpreted to override mandatory legal rights. The English text in this LICENSE file is the authoritative license text. Spanish summaries and examples explain the intended policy but do not replace or expand these terms.