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License.

worldband is source available, not open source. You can read its code and build it for yourself, but not share or sell it.

You may

  • Read the source code.
  • Build it and change it for your own personal, non-commercial use.
  • Use the radio for free, and the extras on up to three of your Macs once you've bought them.

You may not

  • Share, sell or publish worldband or any part of it, changed or not, in source or as an app.
  • Use it, or any part of it, for anything commercial.
  • Use the worldband name or icon.

The full text

worldband License

Copyright (c) 2026 edbn. All rights reserved.

worldband is source available. It is not open source.

1. You may read this source code.

2. You may build and modify this source code for your own personal,
   non-commercial use.

3. You may not distribute this software or any part of it, in source or
   binary form, modified or unmodified. This includes publishing it on any
   app store or website. Forking this repository on GitHub is permitted only
   to the extent GitHub's Terms of Service require.

4. You may not use this software or any part of it for any commercial
   purpose, including selling it, offering it as a service, or including it
   in a product.

5. If you submit a contribution to this project, you grant edbn a perpetual,
   irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, sublicense
   and distribute that contribution, including in paid products, and you
   confirm that you have the right to grant this license.

6. This license grants no rights to the worldband name, icon or other
   branding.

7. Third-party data, imagery and software included with or used by this
   project remain under their own terms. See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

worldband comes with no warranty. The Terms say more.

Credits

  • Stations come from the community directory at Radio Browser, whose API permits use in free and non-free software. Stations, their streams, names and logos belong to their broadcasters.
  • Cities, their positions and time zones come from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0, matched to stations and reduced to what the app uses.
  • Earth imagery comes from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services and NASA Earth Observatory, including Blue Marble: Next Generation and Black Marble. Its use doesn't imply endorsement by NASA.
  • The map is Apple Maps.
  • Updates come through Sparkle, Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Andy Matuschak and others, under the MIT License.
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Questions about the license: worldband@edbn.me.