End User Licence Agreement
This agreement is between you and David Willart, an individual entrepreneur registered in Israel (osek patur), trading as DisplayWord ("we", "us"), and governs your use of the DisplayWord software ("the Software").
By installing or using the Software you accept this agreement. If you do not accept it, do not install the Software.
1. What you are granted
We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the Software for the purpose it is made for: presenting worship material during services, rehearsals and preparation.
You are granted a right to use the Software. You are not buying the Software itself — ownership of it and of all intellectual property in it stays with us.
2. Editions and installations
The Software comes in editions with different capabilities. Which edition you may run is determined by your licence key.
- Church — free of charge, no key needed for its own features.
- Paid editions — require a valid key and an active subscription.
A key is issued to a named congregation or organisation and permits activation on a limited number of installations. That limit is stated when the key is issued.
Within your congregation you may install the Software on the computers your licence covers, and any number of your people may operate it. The licence follows the congregation, not the individual.
3. What you may not do
You may not:
- share, publish, resell, sublicense, rent or lend your licence key;
- use one congregation's key for a different congregation or organisation;
- circumvent, disable or interfere with licence enforcement, activation or the installation limit;
- decompile, disassemble or reverse-engineer the Software, except to the extent this cannot lawfully be prohibited — in particular for interoperability under Article 6 of EU Directive 2009/24/EC, and where mandatory law otherwise permits it;
- remove or alter copyright notices, attributions or licence texts;
- distribute a modified copy of the Software.
4. Activation
Paid editions require a one-time activation over the internet. During activation the Software transmits your licence key and an installation fingerprint — a one-way, irreversible hash derived from characteristics of your computer.
The fingerprint exists for one reason: to count installations against your licence limit. What exactly it is made of, and how we treat it, is set out plainly in the Privacy Policy, and we recommend reading that section before activating.
After activation the Software works offline. It does not require a permanent connection.
5. Your content is yours
Everything you create or import — song texts, chords, service plans, Bible reading plans, images, media, settings — belongs to you.
- It is stored locally on your computer. It is never uploaded to us.
- We have no access to it and cannot read it.
- We cannot recover it if it is lost. Keep your own backups.
- Ending your subscription does not delete it. Uninstalling the Software does not delete your data folders.
Rights in the material you use are your responsibility. Displaying song lyrics during a service commonly requires a licence from a rights organisation in your country. This agreement grants you no rights in any third-party work. What DisplayWord does is display material you are already entitled to use.
6. Bible translations included with the Software
The Software ships with seven Bible translations.
Six are in the public domain: Russian Synodal (1876), King James Version (1769), Westminster Leningrad Codex, Luther (1912), Reina-Valera (1909), Almeida (1911).
One is under an open licence and requires attribution, reproduced here as required:
Переклад Огієнка · 1962 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Українське Біблійне Товариство ·
Біблія в перекладі Івана Огієнка, 1962 (текст — Вікіджерела)
The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence requires that attribution be preserved and that derivative texts be distributed under the same licence. If you copy or adapt that translation outside the Software, those obligations follow it.
7. Backgrounds and media included with the Software
The background images supplied with the Software are our own work, produced by algorithmic generation. You may use them in your services and presentations without restriction or attribution.
Any media you add yourself is governed by whatever licence you obtained it under. We do not check what you add and take no responsibility for it.
8. Third-party components
The Software includes third-party components, used under their respective licences with their copyright notices preserved.
| Component | Licence |
|---|---|
| .NET 8 runtime | MIT |
| Avalonia UI (with Desktop, Skia, Fluent themes, Svg.Skia) | MIT |
| SkiaSharp / Skia | MIT / BSD-3-Clause |
| Inter (typeface) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| JetBrains Mono (typeface) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Lucide (icons) | ISC |
| LibVLC and LibVLCSharp | LGPL-2.1 or later. The distribution uses the LGPL build of LibVLC; modules distributed under the GPL are excluded at build time |
| Newtonsoft.Json | MIT |
| Microsoft.Data.Sqlite | MIT (SQLite itself is public domain) |
| BouncyCastle.Cryptography | Bouncy Castle Licence (MIT-style) |
| NAudio | MIT |
| Makaretu.Dns.Multicast | MIT |
| QRCoder | MIT |
| QuestPDF | QuestPDF Community Licence |
| System.Text.Encoding.CodePages | MIT |
| Velopack | MIT |
The full text of each licence is supplied with the Software, in the licenses/ folder installed alongside the program, from version 0.3.4 onwards.
Your right to replace the LGPL components
LibVLC and LibVLCSharp are licensed under the LGPL, which gives you the right to replace them with your own version.
The Software is deliberately not packaged as a single bundled file, precisely so that this right is usable. The native libraries libvlc.dll and libvlccore.dll, together with the modules folder, are installed as separate files alongside the program.
To replace them: close the Software, substitute those files with a compatible build of LibVLC 3.0.x — official builds are available from videolan.org — and start the Software again. It links to these libraries dynamically and will use the version you supplied.
9. Updates
The Software can check for and install updates. Updates may add, change or remove features.
We may remove a component or feature where we must — for example where material can no longer lawfully be distributed. Where that happens, the update may remove that material from your installation as well. Your own content is never touched by this.
10. Term and termination
This licence runs for as long as your subscription is active, or indefinitely for the free edition.
It terminates automatically if you breach it materially — in particular by sharing or reselling a key.
On termination you must stop using the paid edition. You may continue with the free Church edition, and your own content remains yours and stays where it is.
11. No warranty
The Software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that it will be free of defects or that it will run uninterrupted on every configuration.
Said plainly: this software is used during live services, and live services are unforgiving. Test before you rely on it, and have a fallback. We would give the same advice about any presentation software, including the expensive ones.
12. Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or in connection with the Software is limited to the amount you paid for it in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of data, loss of profit, or disruption of a service or event.
Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, and mandatory consumer rights in your country of residence.
13. Governing law
This agreement is governed by the laws of Israel, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence.
14. Entire agreement
This agreement, together with the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy published at displayword.com, is the entire agreement between us regarding the Software.
If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in force.