Legal / Terms

Bitswarm is a protocol and demo for incentivizing seeding of open-licensed files with Lightning.

Allowlist (hosted catalog)

Only SPDX licenses:

MIT · Apache-2.0 · BSD-2-Clause · BSD-3-Clause · CC0-1.0 · CC-BY-4.0 · Unlicense

Out of scope

Copyrighted movies, commercial music, TV, games, warez, and anything without an allowlisted license are permanently out of scope for hosted indexes. Server APIs reject arbitrary magnets.

Client responsibility

Clients may seed user-chosen magnets on a local machine. That traffic never belongs in the public Bitswarm catalog. You are responsible for what you seed locally.

No legal advice

Nothing on this site is legal advice. Follow the laws that apply to you.

Brand

Public brand: Bitswarm (bitswarm.dev). Unrelated software named BitSwarm / bitswarm elsewhere is not this project. Internal repositories may still use paths named satswarm or open-swarm.

Protocol license

Protocol package: MIT (see Gitkey publish).