Terms of service

Welcome to Cmdr! These terms apply to your use of Cmdr, the desktop file manager app, made by Rymdskottkärra AB (“we”). By downloading, installing, or using Cmdr, you agree to them.

1. The software and its license

Cmdr’s source is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL). You can read, study, and modify it, and use Cmdr free for personal, non-commercial purposes. Commercial use needs a paid license. Each version becomes AGPL-3.0 three years after we release it, so in case we’re hit by a bus you’ll still get the code and can continue it under AGPL.

Two documents are in play. The LICENSE file in the source governs the source code and builds you make yourself. These terms govern the official signed app we distribute, your paid license, and everything else between you and us. Where they differ about the source code, the LICENSE wins.

Personal use (free)

Cmdr is free if you’re using it for personal, non-commercial purposes, outside any employment, freelancing, or business activity, and you’re the only person using your installation. No trial, no feature limits, no watermarks. About once a month Cmdr shows one dismissible reminder that commercial use needs a license. That’s the only thing it will ever ask you for.

Commercial use (paid)

A paid license is required if you’re using Cmdr for work: during employment (even for side tasks), for freelancing and consulting, or in any business activity. You can evaluate Cmdr for commercial use for up to 14 days first. A license is personal and non-transferable, covers your own devices under the fair use guideline below, and includes the updates described on the pricing page.

2. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Share your license key with others, or use it on behalf of multiple people
• Circumvent or tamper with the licensing system in the official signed binary, or use a build with the licensing removed for commercial work (the BSL still lets you modify the source and use your own build non-productively)
• Redistribute the official signed binary commercially, or claim it as your own product
• Attack or reverse engineer our license key signing servers. Studying Cmdr’s own source, and the decompilation rights your local law gives you for interoperability, aren’t affected.
• Use Cmdr for anything illegal

Fair use: a license is meant for one person, on their own devices. There’s no hard limit on how many machines, but we do watch the number of distinct devices per key. If a pattern looks like key sharing rather than one person with a few computers, we’ll write to you first and explain what we’re seeing. If we still think it’s being shared, we may suspend the key and refund the unused part. If you think we’ve got it wrong, tell us and we’ll take another look.

These restrictions keep the project sustainable. We’re a small team, license revenue is what keeps Cmdr alive, and we’re ordinary folks rather than millionaires. Please respect that.

3. Your files

Protecting your data is the first principle Cmdr is built on: overwrites are staged and swapped in only once they’re complete, deletes ask first and go to the Trash where there is one, long operations are cancelable, and the data-writing paths are tested against hostile cases like a transfer killed partway through. How Cmdr protects your files has the detail, including where the limits are.

None of that is a guarantee. No software is free of defects, and Cmdr moves real files on real disks, sometimes across a flaky network, on operating systems that change underneath it. Cmdr is a file manager, not a backup tool, so please keep current backups of anything you’d be upset to lose. If Cmdr loses or corrupts a file, tell us at [email protected] or through Help > Send error report… in the app.

4. AI features

• AI features are non-deterministic, so results vary and aren’t guaranteed to be accurate. They’re off until you turn them on, and you choose the provider.
• Cmdr’s own AI can only propose file operations, never carry them out. Every suggestion opens a review screen listing exactly what would happen, and nothing runs until you approve it. That isn’t a setting you can switch off.
• Cmdr can also act as an MCP server so an outside AI client drives it. That server is off by default. If you turn it on and hand a client the access token, that client can run file operations without the review screen. That’s a meaningful risk, and it’s yours to take.
• If you review an AI suggestion and approve it, that’s your call, and a court will take it into account when working out who’s responsible for what. It doesn’t get us off the hook for defects in Cmdr itself.

5. Payment and refunds

Your purchase contract is with Paddle, who sells Cmdr licenses as Merchant of Record and handles payment, tax, invoicing, and refunds. Your license to use Cmdr, and everything else in these terms, is with us. If you’re not sure who to contact, write to us and we’ll sort it out.

Subscription renewals: commercial subscriptions renew every 12 months until you cancel, and Paddle charges the renewal on the anniversary of your purchase. If you bought at an introductory price, renewals are at the standard price shown on the pricing page at the time. Cancel anytime from your Paddle account and keep access to the end of the period you’ve paid for. If you’re in Germany, your renewed subscription runs for an indefinite period and you can cancel it with one month’s notice.

We offer a 30-day, no-questions-asked refund (see the refund policy). That’s on top of your legal rights, not instead of them.

6. What we do and don’t promise

We’re not going to pretend Cmdr is perfect. We don’t promise it will run without interruption, that every feature works on every system or keeps working after an operating system update, or that it does everything you specifically need.

What we won’t do is talk you out of rights you already have. If Cmdr doesn’t work the way software of this kind should, tell us and we’ll fix it. If you paid for a license and we can’t or don’t fix it in a reasonable time, you can ask for a price reduction or your money back, and because Paddle is the seller we’ll arrange that with them rather than sending you off to chase it.

EXCEPT WHERE THE LAW SAYS OTHERWISE, CMDR IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “WITH ALL FAULTS”, AND WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Plenty of places don’t allow that. Where the law where you live limits warranty disclaimers on consumer products, the paragraph above doesn’t apply to you and your legal warranties stand in full. The BSL carries its own broad “as is” disclaimer, which we can’t edit because the license text is fixed; as between you and us, these terms and your local law govern.

7. Limitation of liability

What we’re responsible for no matter what

Some responsibility can’t be signed away. Nothing here limits or excludes our liability for:

• Intent or gross negligence on our part
• Death or personal injury
• Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation
• Anything mandatory product liability law makes us liable for
• Anything else the mandatory law where you live doesn’t allow us to exclude

Lost or damaged files

If a defect in Cmdr destroys or corrupts files you keep for personal reasons, we’re liable for that under product liability law, and nothing in these terms limits it. If you’re using Cmdr for work, product liability law doesn’t cover work data, and the limits below apply instead, except where consumer law says otherwise, as it does in Australia (section 10).

Everything else

For anything other than the above, we’re liable for losses that follow normally and foreseeably from what went wrong. Only where the law where you live permits an exclusion at all, we’re not liable for losses remote from it: lost profits, lost business, lost time, or knock-on costs we had no way to anticipate. In Quebec, and anywhere else that grants a consumer a right to punitive or exemplary damages, that right isn’t affected.

Where a cap is allowed, our total liability for all claims together is limited to what you paid for your Cmdr license in the 12 months before the claim, or, if you bought a perpetual license, what you paid for it. That’s a ceiling on what we can owe, not an amount we’re promising to pay.

If you’re using Cmdr for work

A commercial license is a business purchase in most places, and that usually means consumer protection rules don’t apply to it. Some countries disagree and their rules win: Australia treats anyone paying under AUD 100,000 for goods as a consumer, and in Quebec what matters is whether you’re a business at all rather than someone employed by one. Where consumer rules genuinely don’t apply, the cap above is what you paid in the 12 months before the claim (or, for a perpetual license, what you paid for it), and we’re not liable for lost profits, lost revenue, business interruption, or the cost of reconstructing lost data.

8. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms when the law changes, when Cmdr changes in a way the terms need to describe, or to fix something unclear. Whenever a change reduces your rights or adds an obligation, we’ll tell you at least 30 days ahead by email if you hold a license, and post a notice on the website. Corrections that don’t change what either of us owes take effect when we post them.

If a change reduces your rights and you don’t want it, tell us within 30 days. On a subscription you can cancel and we’ll refund the unused part. With a perpetual license you keep the terms you bought under.

9. Who we are

Cmdr is made by Rymdskottkärra AB, a limited company registered in Sweden, with its registered office in Järfälla, at Vattmyragränd 47, 177 39 Järfälla, Sweden. Organisationsnummer 559471-0401. VAT number SE559471040101. Reach us at [email protected].

10. Governing law and your local rights

These terms are governed by Swedish law.

That doesn’t take away the rights you have where you live. If you’re a consumer, you keep every protection your local law gives you, and where those rules conflict with anything here, those rules win. If you’re a consumer in the EU, you can sue us either in Sweden or where you live, and we can only ever bring a claim against you in the courts of the country where you live.

Australia. Our goods come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. You are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced if the goods fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure. These guarantees apply whether you use Cmdr personally or for work, and nothing in these terms limits them.

United Kingdom. If Cmdr damages your device or other digital content you own, and that damage wouldn’t have happened had we taken reasonable care and skill, section 46 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 entitles you to repair or compensation, whether you paid for Cmdr or use it free.

We’d much rather sort things out by email than in a courtroom, so please write to [email protected] first. If you’re a consumer and we can’t agree, you can take the matter to the Swedish National Board for Consumer Disputes (Allmänna reklamationsnämnden), Box 174, 101 23 Stockholm, Sweden. It applies Swedish law, charges a small filing fee, and has minimum claim values, so it won’t fit every dispute.

11. If part of this doesn’t hold up

These terms are written for people all over the world, and no single set of words is valid everywhere. If a court or regulator finds any part of them unenforceable where you live, that part drops out and the rest keeps working.

New Jersey residents: no provision of these terms is void, unenforceable, or inapplicable in New Jersey, except that we don’t limit our liability for our own intentional acts, gross negligence, fraud, or for death or personal injury, and the warranty disclaimer in section 6 applies to you in full.