Standing on other people's work

HomeVault is a small app, and a good deal of what makes it work was written by other people and given away. Everything below is used under a licence that asks for credit, so here it is.

The app itself is not open source. The format it writes is: the vault is plain JSON in a folder you own, the schema is published, and there is a validator and a standalone reader you can run against your own files without HomeVault involved at all.

Software

.NET MAUI — MIT

The cross-platform framework the app is built on, so that one codebase runs on both iOS and Android.

Copyright (c) .NET Foundation and Contributors — licence

CommunityToolkit.Mvvm — MIT

Generates the plumbing that connects each screen to the data behind it.

Copyright (c) .NET Foundation and Contributors — licence

Microsoft.Extensions.Logging — MIT

The logging abstraction behind the in-app diagnostics log.

Copyright (c) .NET Foundation and Contributors — licence

Plugin.LocalNotification — MIT

Schedules the maintenance and warranty reminders on each platform. HomeVault has no server, so every reminder is scheduled locally on your own device — this is the library that asks the operating system to do it.

licence

Fonts

JetBrains Mono — SIL Open Font License 1.1

The monospaced typeface used throughout the app and this site.

Copyright (c) 2020 The JetBrains Mono Project Authors — licence

Open Sans — SIL Open Font License 1.1

Used for longer passages of text inside the app.

Copyright (c) The Open Sans Project Authors — licence

The MIT licence

Each MIT-licensed component above is provided under these terms, with its own copyright holders as listed.

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.

What is not in that list

No analytics library. No advertising or attribution SDK. No crash reporter that phones home. No HTTP client talking to a HomeVault server, because there is no HomeVault server. The list above is the whole of it, which is why the privacy answers on both app stores are simply “no data collected”.

Read the privacy policy