Terms of Service

Early-access terms, not final yet. These terms cover the free early-access build. They are still awaiting review, and the governing-law clause is not set yet.

Version 1.0.0 early access. Published by PubSalvage ("we", "us"). Contact: support@pubsalvage.com.

1. What this is

This package is a free, early-access DEVELOPMENT BUILD of PubSalvage, a program that opens, rates and converts Microsoft Publisher (.pub) files on your own computer. It is not a finished release. No licence keys are sold or accepted for it: the production licence key has not been issued, so every copy runs as the Free edition (inspect without a limit; render, rate and salvage on up to 3 files per run). Nothing here is an offer to sell you anything. PubSalvage is an independent product. It is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft and Microsoft Publisher are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

2. Permission to use

You may use this build free of charge, on your own computers, to convert and inspect files that you have the right to convert. You may not sell it, rent it, or present it as your own work. Do not redistribute the download; link to pubsalvage.pages.dev/download instead.

3. No warranty

THIS BUILD IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR THAT IT WILL RUN WITHOUT ERROR OR READ ANY PARTICULAR FILE. It is an early-access build, it has been tested on very few real Publisher files, and the ratings it gives are not measured against real 2003-2021 files yet.

4. Check the results; keep your originals

Every result can be wrong. A GREEN rating means that every word was found on the rebuilt pages and every other check passed: it does not mean the page looks identical to Publisher's. Any lost word makes a file AMBER; RED means do not rely on the result. The program's exit code is 0 when every file was processed, even when a file was rated RED or AMBER, so never treat exit code 0 as "the conversion is good". Keep your original .pub files. Do not delete or discard them because a conversion finished, and check every result that matters against the original (or against Microsoft Publisher, if you still have it). PubSalvage never changes your original files and never overwrites results it wrote earlier.

5. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THIS BUILD, INCLUDING LOST, DAMAGED OR INCOMPLETE FILES OR DATA, LOST PROFITS, OR ANY INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS, EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD IT COULD HAPPEN. WHERE LIABILITY CANNOT BE EXCLUDED, IT IS LIMITED TO USD 50. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited, or any right you have under consumer law that cannot be waived.

6. Your data

PubSalvage collects nothing. It has no account, no telemetry and no crash reporting, and the converter contains no networking functions: it makes no network connections and sends nothing to us or anyone else. It reads only the files you point it at and writes only into the folder you choose. The desktop app keeps no history or settings after it closes. We never receive your files. If you email us, we use your address only to reply.

7. Other people's software

PubSalvage contains and was built with third-party software, each part under its own licence: the layout libraries librevenge, libmspub and libodfgen (MPL-2.0), libharu (zlib licence), Monocypher, ICU, Boost and the fonts in the fonts folder, and, in the desktop app, Qt for Python (PySide6, LGPL-3.0), Python and PyInstaller. Their licences are in the files THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES_DESKTOP.txt in this package and are printed by "pubsalvage licences". Those licences apply to those parts only and do not change these terms for the rest.

8. Source code offer (MPL-2.0)

The complete corresponding source code of the MPL-2.0 libraries listed above, in the unmodified form they were built from, is available from https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/ and on request from support@pubsalvage.com. The same address will give you the exact sources of the LGPL-licensed parts of the desktop app, so that you can replace them with your own build.

9. Changes and ending

We may change or withdraw this early-access build at any time. These terms end if you break them. Sections 3 to 8 survive.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of __GOVERNING_LAW__, and the courts of that place can decide disputes about them, unless mandatory law where you live says otherwise.

11. Contact

PubSalvage, support@pubsalvage.com.

The same text ships with the program.