License

Updated 10 November 2026

Kinara is free and open source under the MIT License. You can use it, read it, change it and share it, as the license below sets out.

In short

Use Kinara on as many Macs as you like, for anything. Read the source, change it, and share your own copies, changed or not, as long as they keep the copyright notice and this license.

Kinara comes as it is, with no warranty. It uses parts of macOS that Apple can change, and an update to macOS can stop some of it working until Kinara catches up.

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Third-party software

Kinara includes Sparkle, for updates, under its own MIT License. Its license text ships inside the app as Sparkle-LICENSE.txt.

Contact

Questions about the license: support@kinara.example, or open an issue on GitHub.