Terms of use

LibreHub (https://librehub.store) is a directory of free, open source alternatives to paid software. It lists applications published by third parties and passes on, for each one, a regeneration prompt that makes it possible to rebuild it.

Browsing the site means accepting these terms. Creating an account, posting a review or publishing an application requires accepting them without reservation.

Accuracy

You provide accurate information and keep it up to date. An account created under a stolen identity is deleted.

Confidentiality

You are responsible for your password and for what is done from your account. Tell us if you think it has been compromised.

Roles

An account has a role — member, developer, company or administrator — that determines what it gives access to. The administrator role is only granted by the Hub's administrators.

You can ask for your account to be deleted at any time. What deletion erases and what it keeps is detailed in the privacy policy.

Access to the Hub and to the listed applications is free and ad-free. No feature is reserved for payment, no listing is promoted for money.

Donations are possible to cover hosting costs. They are optional and give nothing in return — no option, no priority, no influence on ranking or reviews. Details are on the page Support us.

Publishing requires a developer account and signing the Hub's charter, reproduced below. Its commitments are reconfirmed with every submission.

Every submission is reviewed by an administrator before publication. The review covers 5 points, all mandatory:

• The regeneration prompt holds up — Self-contained, behavioural, with business rules and acceptance criteria. Not a README summary.
• The application answers at its address — The link opens the announced application, not an error page or a repository.
• The test account can sign in — The credentials provided open a session in the application. That is what will later make it possible to check for malicious code.
• The announced features exist — What the listing promises is found in the application.
• The declared gaps are honest — Differences from the paid software are stated, not glossed over.

Rejection

A listing can be rejected, with a reason given to its author. It remains editable and can be submitted again.

Editing

A published listing can no longer be edited by its author: it is public. Corrections go through the administrators.

Unpublishing

The Hub may remove from the catalog a listing that no longer complies with the charter or whose application is no longer reachable. It then becomes editable by its author again.

Subdomain

An address on librehub.store can be requested once the listing is published. It is granted at the Hub's discretion and may be withdrawn with the listing.

You keep the rights to what you publish — listing, regeneration prompt, images, reviews. You grant LibreHub the non-exclusive right to reproduce and display it on the site, for as long as the content is published.

The regeneration prompt is meant to be copied by visitors: that is why the Hub exists. By uploading it, you accept that anyone may use it to rebuild an equivalent application.

You warrant that you hold the rights to what you upload, and that nothing in it infringes a third party's rights.

Account required

Posting a review requires being signed in. An anonymous review commits no one and is worthless to its reader.

One per application

An account posts only one review per application. Posting again replaces the previous one.

Not on your own

The author of an application cannot rate it.

Content

A review is about the application. Abusive, defamatory, discriminatory or off-topic remarks, third parties' personal data and manifestly fake or paid reviews are removed without notice.

You can remove your own review at any time. Administrators may remove a review that breaks the rules above.

The listed applications are published and hosted by their authors, not by LibreHub. Before publication the Hub checks that the application is reachable and matches what it announces; this check is one-off and is not repeated on every update.

LibreHub guarantees neither the availability, nor the security, nor the data retention of these applications. Using them is your decision, and their publisher's terms apply.

The service is provided as is, with no guarantee of continuity. It may be interrupted for maintenance, for lack of hosting funds, or stop permanently.

LibreHub cannot be held liable for damage resulting from the use of a listed application, from the site being unavailable, or from data loss at a third-party publisher.

Any breach of these rules leads administrators to remove the account and withdraw its published applications.

Abusive use of the site — attempted unauthorised access, mass scraping, circumventing the rules above — leads to the account concerned being closed.

These terms may change with the site. The last update date appears at the top of the page. A substantive change to the charter comes with a new version, which may require developers to sign again.

These terms are governed by French law. In the event of a dispute, an amicable solution will be sought before any legal action — write to hcombey@gmail.com.