Files

T

gramps 0498f7e130 legal: proprietary EULA + privacy policy; GPL terms retired

Licensing posture changes to closed-source commercial software (creator ruling 2026-10-30): free
tier caps output at 720p30, a paid licence unlocks 1080p ($10/month or $400 lifetime).

- LICENSE is now an End User License Agreement: grant, what you may do with your own content,
  no redistribution/reverse engineering, third-party components prevail, updates at publisher
  discretion, warranty and liability limits, termination, governing law.
- ADDITIONAL-TERMS.md deleted — those were GPL §7 terms and have no meaning under the EULA.
- THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt keeps every third-party obligation and drops the GPL header and §6
  source offer; it states plainly that LlamaCasty ships no source.
- PRIVACY.md is new: exactly what is written locally (layout DB, DPAPI token, capped log,
  recordings you choose), what leaves the machine (Google's APIs only, with your account), and the
  standing promises (chat rendered never stored, no telemetry, no ad SDKs).
- README, docs/ai/product.md, docs/ai/decisions.md and TASKS.md record the decision and the
  obligations that still bind (ffmpeg LGPL as a separate process, OFL fonts, CC0 icons, model
  provenance, notices in the About screen).

Deliberately NOT decided here: key issuance/verification and the resolution gate itself. Earlier
GPL builds remain GPL for the versions that shipped under it.

2026-10-30 16:10:38 -07:00

6.5 KiB

Raw Blame History

Decisions log — retired paths, kept so they are not re-litigated

One dated line per decision that no longer governs, plus the reason it died. Read only when you are about to re-open one of them. Live rules live in the subsystem files; this is the graveyard with cause of death.

Monetization

2026-10-30 — freemium replaces free-forever (creator ruling)

Free tier caps output at 720p30; $10/month or $400 lifetime unlocks 1080p. Reverses the 2026-10-08 free-forever ruling below, which was a current decision, not an absolute.

Superseded: free forever (2026-10-08, TASK 54)

2026-09-21 one-time perpetual licence $29 founder → $49 list — superseded 6 days later.
2026-09-27 $10/mo subscription or $400 lifetime, no annual. Store revenue share was verified at 15% (ADA v8.10 §6(b)(i) → $8.50 / $340 net), including subscriptions.
No annual tier because Microsoft does not pro-rate: "monthly subscriptions and initial (pre-renewal) purchases aren't eligible for a prorated refund" — a first-year subscriber who cancels loses the remaining months and the developer cannot refund it.
Clean numbers, no .99 (creator: "Let's stop with the x.99 stuff"). The convention exists only to make a price look cheaper, which is incoherent for a brand sold on honesty.
Escalation model (2026-09-01): the credit was deliberately obnoxious self-promo; the cadence is the nagware — no modals, no feature locks, no stream-time cutoffs.
Pre-GA posture — preview-only flash (reversed 2026-09-26): the credit used to render in the preview and never on the broadcast, to keep test VODs clean. The creator ruled the free tier must be honest advertising; it now composites into output and recordings when enabled.
Rejected: always-on watermark (obscurable — replaced by the flash), hard stream-time cutoffs (a stream dying mid-broadcast reads as broken), soft-limit nagging, freemium feature tiers, donation-only, and any resolution/quality ceiling. Auto step-down (TASK 33) is a protect the stream feature, never a monetization penalty.
Polar — $50 already paid, 5% + $0.50 Starter, merchant of record. Dormant, not deleted-in-principle: no product, org ID, key prefix or discount code exists (d105dfa1-…, c05fb364-…, LCYT-, LLAMAFOUNDER/LLAMA50, the portal-validate endpoint and the 14-day offline-grace machine are all gone). Distribution.md §4.2/§4.5 keeps the design.
Store IAP was never implemented — Windows.Services.Store appears nowhere in the repo.
⚠️ Two obligations any future subscription would create (ADA §6(h)): fulfil the whole period as marketed (breach → Microsoft may refund in full at its discretion), and raising the price disables auto-renew — the launch price is effectively locked for the product's life.

Distribution — Store route withdrawn 2026-10-22

2026-09-27 Store MSIX + Store IAP decided; 2026-10-22 withdrawn. A brand name on the Store's publisher line requires a Company account → a registered legal entity (LLC ~$85 New Mexico with a ~2-week SOS backlog, ~$143 Wyoming). Partner Center does not convert an Individual account to a Company account later, and an Individual account publishes under the verified legal name. The creator will not fund an entity for a nameplate.
2026-10-22 Velopack deleted — it downloaded and executed, which Store policy 10.2.2 forbids. The Store was going to update the app, so that premise died with the route: the app now has no update path, and StorePackagingTests currently asserts that no updater exists — rewrite that guard with the chosen updater, never leave it to veto one.
The MSIX package still builds (159 MB artifacts/LlamaCasty.msix, submitted nowhere). The route contradiction between ai.md's older text and the TASKS files is settled in one sweep at the distribution revisit, not patched piecemeal.
Signing: Microsoft removed the EV instant-bypass for SmartScreen in March 2024, so EV buys what OV buys; the 2026-10-22 ruling is ship unsigned and accept the "unrecognized publisher" warning until download reputation accrues. Deferred, not rejected.
Steam when $100 exists: Steam Direct $100/product (recoupable after $1,000 AGR), categories Audio/Video Production / Player Tools (OBS precedent), developer/publisher name self-chosen (no entity needed), 5+ 1920×1080 screenshots + capsule art, a build Valve runs, a 2-week live page, 30% cut.

Product surface — retired

2026-09-24 StreamElements replaced by native alerts (TASK 43). No third-party widget feed: the chat poll is the event feed.
2026-09-01 the screens/layers settings audit was retired into the gold pass (TASK 36 item 3) rather than run as session debt.
2026-10-04 launch position: restoring the saved position was rejected for a derived top-left placement. The live rule is in ui-surface.md; the old clamp's tolerance range is why it must not come back.
D3D11 swap compositor — superseded by the software compositor (TASK 3 item 16).
Windows 8 / 32-bit support — 64-bit Windows 10/11 only (creator ruling 2026-10-09).
"There is no v1.x" (2026-09-01): everything queues to v1 or to out of product, permanently — no feature parks "for a later version".

Out of product — permanently

Do not build these; each was explicitly ruled out.

D3D11 swap compositor (superseded by the software compositor).
OBS-style source expansion — game capture, browser-source zoo, media playlist, VLC, colour-key, MIDI. The minimal source set is deliberate; creators who need more have graduated to OBS.
Multi-layout / profiles / presets — that is what OBS is for.
Cross-process stream resume (impossible via the API; creator ruling 2026-09-01).
Stream Deck / Loupedeck integration — the device sends keystrokes, and global hotkeys already are the integration.
Per-source audio sync offset — global offset shipped (TASK 22); per-source is the OBS mixer rabbit hole and breaks the one-knob audio rule.
Chroma key / NVIDIA-only background removal (the bundled ONNX path is the one shipped).
Virtual camera output — a different product and a device-driver swamp; our output is one YouTube stream.
Replay buffer, stream clipping, multi-destination restreaming, an in-app bug reporter, and an advanced broadcast-form tab (latency/DVR/embed/projection/CC/region are fixed at sane defaults; every exposed field is a support ticket).

6.5 KiB Raw Blame History Unescape Escape