Legal

panel is a hobby project by Tristan. It is free, and there is no company behind it.

Using panel

You may use panel free of charge, at home or anywhere else, and pass the downloads on to others as long as they are unchanged. panel's own code is not published; this permission does not cover changing it, taking it apart, or selling it.

No warranty

panel is given as it is, without a warranty of any kind, and you use it at your own risk. It runs routers, firewalls and disks, where a mistake can cut a network off or lose data: keep backups, and keep a way back to your old setup until you are sure. As far as the law allows, its maker is not liable for any damage or loss that comes from using it.

Names

Debian, Raspberry Pi, NanoPi, Rockchip, Jellyfin, Plex, Syncthing, Netflix and other names on this site are the trademarks of their owners. They are used only to say what panel runs on or works with; panel is not made, sponsored or endorsed by any of them.

The software inside it

The downloads contain free and open-source software made by others, under their own licences. Those licences, not the terms above, cover that software, and nothing above limits what they allow.

Debian

The Raspberry Pi 4, NanoPi R5S and generic x86 PC images are Debian 13 (trixie), from Debian's own archive, unchanged: its main section and the firmware in non-free-firmware (the PC image also contrib). On an installed machine each package's licence is in /usr/share/doc/package/copyright, and dpkg -l lists the packages and their versions.

The source of every one of those packages, at every version Debian has published, is at snapshot.debian.org, and the current ones at sources.debian.org; on a machine, apt source package fetches it.

The NanoPi R5S's boot loader

The R5S image starts with a boot loader built for it from these sources, unchanged:

panel's own programs

panel's programs are written in Go and use SQLite, through go-sqlite3. SQLite is in the public domain. The fonts, IBM Plex, are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, whose text is here and comes with every copy of panel. The other two licences ask that their words go with every copy:

Go, its standard library, which is built into each program:

Copyright 2009 The Go Authors.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:

   * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
   * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer
in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution.
   * Neither the name of Google LLC nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

go-sqlite3:

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Yasuhiro Matsumoto

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.

Apps

The apps panel installs for you (Jellyfin, Plex, Syncthing and the others in its catalogue) are not in the downloads. Each is fetched from its own makers when you install it, under their own licence and terms.