Terms

The software

The LightPhotos app, in both its desktop and browser versions, is licensed under your choice of the MIT License or the Apache License, version 2.0. That license sets out what you may do with the code, and it governs wherever it and these terms overlap.

The Windows, Linux and browser versions also include a modified copy of rawler, the RAW decoder, which is licensed under the GNU LGPL, version 2.1. The macOS desktop app does not include it. The licenses of rawler and every other third-party component, and where to get rawler’s modified source, are in THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt.

Your photos stay yours

LightPhotos reads and edits files on your own machine. We claim no rights to your photos or your edits. If you export to an Immich server, photos go to the server you chose, not to us, and that server’s own terms apply.

Keep backups

LightPhotos works on your real photo library. Software has bugs, so keep backups of anything you can’t afford to lose.

No warranty

The website, the browser app and the desktop app are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss or damage from using them, including lost or corrupted photos, edits or metadata. This matches the warranty disclaimers in the MIT and Apache licenses.

Privacy

What the site and apps record is described on the privacy page.

Changes

These terms may change as LightPhotos does. The current version is always on this page, and its history is public in the site’s repository.

Questions

Open an issue on GitHub.