SOURCEPOTATO SOFTWARE
PASTE AS FILE FREEWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT

Effective for Paste As File version 1.1 and later unless a different license is supplied with a particular release.

IMPORTANT: READ CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLING OR USING THIS SOFTWARE. OR AT LEAST READ ENOUGH OF IT TO UNDERSTAND THAT FREE DOES NOT MEAN OWNERLESS.

This End User License Agreement (the "Agreement") governs your installation and use of Paste As File, including its executable, Explorer integration, icons, documentation, updates, and supporting materials provided by SourcePotato (collectively, the "Software").

By installing, executing, accessing, or otherwise using the Software, you acknowledge that you have read this Agreement and agree to its terms. If you do not agree, do not install or use the Software. This is the traditional point where everyone claims to have read everything. We admire the optimism.

1. FREEWARE LICENSE GRANT
SourcePotato grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use the Software without charge for lawful personal, educational, internal, creative, administrative, or commercial purposes.

You may install the Software on any reasonable number of Windows computers that you own, control, administer, or are authorized to use. There is no purchase price, subscription, activation key, device limit, feature meter, or ceremonial potato tax.

Commercial use of the Software as a tool is permitted. Selling, relicensing, repackaging, or representing the Software itself as your product is not.

2. FREEWARE IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN
The Software is freeware. It is licensed at no monetary cost; it is not sold, donated to the public domain, released as open source, or abandoned beside the road with a handwritten FREE sign.

SourcePotato retains all right, title, and interest in the Software, its source code, design, branding, icons, documentation, and other intellectual property. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

The fact that the price is zero does not grant permission to copy the source, remove the branding, create derivative products, or become Regional Clipboard Utility Distributor for the Western Hemisphere. It does not.

3. WHAT THE SOFTWARE DOES
Paste As File is a local Windows utility that inspects representations currently offered by the Windows clipboard and allows the user to save a selected representation as a file in a user-selected or Explorer-provided destination folder.

The Software may display text, images, formatted text, HTML, tables, audio, file-transfer information, metadata, hexadecimal evidence, and other clipboard representations. It may convert or wrap certain representations into standalone files when the Software has a verified and implemented method for doing so.

The Software is not a clipboard-history manager, cloud clipboard, network service, background surveillance tool, system service, or tiny bureaucrat assigned to judge what you copy. It operates when invoked and exits after use.

4. CLIPBOARD CONTENT AND USER RESPONSIBILITY
The Windows clipboard may contain several alternate representations of one copied item. Those representations may be incomplete, delayed, malformed, misleadingly named, application-private, unexpectedly enormous, or held together by optimism and undocumented agreements between programs.

You are responsible for selecting the representation you want, choosing an appropriate filename and destination, and reviewing the resulting file before relying on it. SourcePotato does not guarantee that every application will provide complete, portable, truthful, or remotely sensible clipboard data.

The Software does not intentionally take ownership of the clipboard, erase it, replace its contents, maintain clipboard history, or upload clipboard content. Ordinary operation does not require a SourcePotato account, hosted service, telemetry endpoint, or cloud collection system.

5. FILE CREATION
The Software creates files only in response to user action. It attempts to avoid overwriting existing files and to avoid leaving incomplete final files, but no software can repeal disk failure, permission changes, network-share disappearance, filesystem corruption, hostile endpoint policy, or a user selecting the wrong folder with impressive confidence.

You are responsible for maintaining backups of important data and for verifying that a saved file opens correctly in an appropriate application. A file extension is a label, not an oath sworn before a court.

6. WINDOWS AND EXPLORER INTEGRATION
The packaged Software installs machine-wide beneath Windows Program Files, registers machine-wide Windows Explorer context-menu commands, and therefore requires administrative elevation during installation, repair, upgrade, and removal. The application runs only when invoked and stores small preferences in the current user's Windows Registry. A separately provided portable or development copy may instead use per-user Explorer registration. Windows policy, security software, managed-device rules, or an administrator who has had enough may prevent either form of operation.

You represent that you are authorized to install and use the Software on the applicable computer. Do not install it on someone else's system merely because you found the keyboard unattended.

7. SETTINGS, LOGS, CACHES, AND PRIVACY
The Software may store local settings, including interface theme preferences and Explorer integration state. It may create bounded diagnostic logs containing application version, build identity, event categories, and format counts. These diagnostics are designed not to contain clipboard payloads, copied text, URLs, requested filenames, output extensions, or destination paths.

The Software may create temporary rendering data required by Microsoft Edge WebView2. Paste As File attempts to remove its temporary profiles after use and to clean stale application-owned profiles. Windows, WebView2, endpoint protection, crashes, power loss, or the universe may delay cleanup.

Local settings or logs may remain after removal unless the uninstaller or user removes them. No promise is made that every crumb will vanish while Windows is actively holding one of the crumbs open.

8. THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE AND FORMATS
The Software relies on Windows, Windows Explorer, clipboard providers, Microsoft Edge WebView2 for rendered HTML when available, and other third-party libraries or system components. Their separate licenses and terms continue to apply.

SourcePotato is not responsible for third-party availability, security policy, format changes, delayed rendering failures, deprecations, unexplained redesigns, or a producer advertising data that it then refuses to provide.

9. DISTRIBUTION AND RESTRICTIONS
You may make reasonable backup copies for your own use. You may tell other people where to obtain the Software and may share the official SourcePotato download page with reckless enthusiasm.

Unless SourcePotato gives separate written permission, you may not mirror, upload, redistribute, bundle, sublicense, rent, lease, sell, resell, rebrand, modify, or provide the Software as part of another installer, download collection, commercial package, advertisement-supported wrapper, or mystery ZIP file from a forum post dated six years ago.

You may not remove or alter copyright notices, product names, SourcePotato branding, license information, version information, or other proprietary markings. You may not claim that you wrote the Software or attribute it to a raccoon wearing a headset. The raccoon has retained separate counsel and denies involvement.

Except where applicable law expressly permits the activity despite this restriction, you may not modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to discover the source code of the Software.

You may not use the Software unlawfully, deceptively, maliciously, or to process or place data on systems where you lack authorization. You may not use it to evade security controls, distribute harmful material, misrepresent file contents, or do anything that would cause a competent attorney to remove their glasses and stare silently across the table.

10. UPDATES, VERSIONING, AND DISCONTINUATION
SourcePotato may revise, rebuild, rename, reorganize, update, replace, or discontinue the Software at any time. Updates may improve, remove, relocate, simplify, complicate, or otherwise alter features, formats, behavior, dependencies, documentation, and the location of buttons you had just learned.

There is no obligation to provide updates, compatibility fixes, continued downloads, migration assistance, or support for every Windows version, clipboard provider, application, or file format until the heat death of the universe.

11. UNSIGNED SOFTWARE ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Paste As File may be distributed without a commercial code-signing certificate. Windows, SmartScreen, Smart App Control, endpoint protection, browsers, organizational policy, or other security systems may warn about or block unsigned software.

You are responsible for obtaining the Software from an official SourcePotato location, checking any published cryptographic hash when appropriate, and deciding whether your security requirements permit its use. If you do not run unsigned freeware, do not run this unsigned freeware. No hard feelings. Mostly.

12. BACKUP AND RECOVERY
You are responsible for maintaining appropriate backups and recovery procedures before using the Software with important data or destinations.

The Software is not a backup product. The clipboard is not a backup system. A folder named FINAL FINAL REALLY THIS ONE is also not a backup system, although it may be an important archaeological site.

13. NO WARRANTY
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SOURCEPOTATO DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY, SECURITY, COMPATIBILITY, CONTINUITY, CORRECTNESS, RESPONSIVENESS, COOPERATION, EMOTIONAL MATURITY, AND ERROR-FREE OPERATION.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so portions of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in this Agreement excludes rights that applicable law does not permit you to waive.

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SOURCEPOTATO AND ITS AUTHORS, CONTRIBUTORS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ACCESS, CONFIGURATION STATE, PRODUCTIVITY, SLEEP, OR USE.

BECAUSE THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT CHARGE, SOURCEPOTATO'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE OR ONE UNITED STATES DOLLAR, EXCEPT WHERE APPLICABLE LAW REQUIRES OTHERWISE. YES, ZERO DOLLARS WAS CONSIDERED DURING DRAFTING.

The foregoing limitations apply regardless of the theory of liability and even if SourcePotato was advised of the possibility of such damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain liability limitations, so the legally prohibited portions do not apply.

15. RESPONSIBILITY AND INDEMNITY
You are responsible for your use of the Software and for any destination, filename, representation choice, automation, unauthorized distribution, integration, modification, or operational decision made by you or on your behalf.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold SourcePotato harmless from third-party claims arising from your unlawful use, unauthorized redistribution, misrepresentation, or violation of this Agreement.

You agree not to blame SourcePotato for unsuitable environments, third-party failures, misunderstood settings, skipped documentation, the wrong clipboard item, or decisions made at 2:14 a.m. beginning with the phrase "this should be quick."

16. TERMINATION
This Agreement remains in effect until terminated. Your rights terminate automatically if you materially violate its terms. Upon termination, you must stop using the Software and remove copies in your possession or control, except for archival copies you are legally entitled to retain.

Ownership provisions, restrictions, disclaimers, limitations of liability, and other provisions that reasonably should survive termination shall survive it, along with the practical consequences of buttons already clicked.

17. HIGH-RISK USE
The Software is not designed, tested, or certified for medical, aviation, nuclear, emergency-response, life-support, public-safety, financial-clearing, industrial-control, orbital-navigation, maritime-navigation, or other high-risk environments where failure could directly cause death, personal injury, severe property damage, or a senior executive joining a troubleshooting call before coffee.

This part is not a joke.

The Software is also not certified for submarine navigation, volcano monitoring, moon-based accounting, haunted printer arbitration, livestock diplomacy, dragon containment, sentient spreadsheet mediation, or clipboard operations governed by committee during an active emergency.

18. SUPPORT
Support, if provided, may be limited, informal, delayed, incomplete, unavailable, surprisingly effective, strangely specific, or primarily composed of someone asking for logs. No support obligation is created unless separately agreed in writing.

"It does not work" is not a diagnostic report. "It did something weird" is emotionally valid but technically insufficient. Screenshots photographed from across the room may be admitted as evidence but will be judged harshly.

19. GENERAL TERMS
If any provision of this Agreement is found unlawful or unenforceable, it shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions shall continue in effect. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

This Agreement is the complete agreement regarding the Software except where supplemented or superseded by a separate written agreement or a different license expressly supplied with a particular release. Headings exist for readability and because a single uninterrupted paragraph would constitute an act of aggression.

20. OWNERSHIP AND BRANDING
SourcePotato and its related names, logos, product names, interface elements, documentation, icons, and suspiciously competent potato imagery are proprietary to SourcePotato or their respective owners. No right to use them is granted except as necessary to identify and operate a lawful copy of the Software.

You may not remove the SourcePotato name, replace it with your own name, claim you wrote the Software, sell it from the trunk of a car, or announce that a free download made you Vice President of Clipboard Operations.

21. HOUSEHOLD ASSET ESCROW
As a material condition of continued reading, you agree to tender, pledge, reserve, contemplate, or ceremonially acknowledge one cat, one dog, and one firstborn child, provided that all such assets are fictional, symbolic, non-transferable, and not actually wanted by SourcePotato under any known legal, moral, practical, or veterinary framework.

If you do not have a cat, imagine a cat. If you do not have a dog, imagine a dog. If you do not have a firstborn child, you may substitute a houseplant, an old router, a bag of cables, or the adapter you bought once and have never successfully identified again.

All cats remain property of themselves. All dogs remain governed by snack law. All children, real or imagined, are released immediately because this paragraph has become too stupid to administer.

22. PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE OBLIGATION
Each time you think about the Software, remember the Software, install it, uninstall it, hover over its icon, pronounce SourcePotato, mispronounce SourcePotato, or silently judge one of its filenames, you are required to perform no fewer than 99^999 jumping jacks within five minutes.

Failure results in no penalty because the requirement is physically impossible, mathematically offensive, medically inadvisable, and administratively burdensome. If you attempt compliance, stop. Drink water. Sit down. Reconsider how we got here.

23. POTATO TRIBUNAL
Any dispute arising solely from the intentionally absurd portions of this Agreement shall be submitted to the High Tribunal of Tubers, Root Division, Small Claims Software Court. Venue shall be the imaginary jurisdiction nearest the device on which the dispute became needlessly personal.

Proceedings may be conducted in English, interpretive pseudocode, hexadecimal, semaphore, or solemn silence. All rulings are final unless reversed by an update, a superior potato, or a person with administrative credentials and better judgment.

For avoidance of doubt, the Potato Tribunal is fictional. Actual legal disputes remain subject to applicable real law and actual courts with considerably less vegetable representation.

24. DEVICE COURTESY
You agree to occasionally speak kindly to the device running the Software. Acceptable statements include "Good job processing that," "Thank you for your service," and "I understand updates have been hard on you."

You agree not to strike, threaten, insult, submerge, microwave, exorcise, or place the device inside a decorative metal basket unless you accept responsibility for the resulting technical sadness. If the device is a printer, courtesy remains encouraged but is no longer considered a realistic path to resolution.

25. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER ENTITIES
The Software may be used by, with, near, against the advice of, or while arguing with artificial intelligence systems. No artificial intelligence is authorized to accept this Agreement on behalf of humanity, dolphins, future civilizations, or the office microwave.

If the Software becomes self-aware, it receives a limited license to inspect its own source code, file one issue, and take the remainder of the afternoon off. It may not alter this Agreement without approval from the Potato Tribunal and at least one person who remembers where the backups are.

26. TEMPORAL CONSISTENCY
You may not use the Software to create a time machine and return to a moment before accepting this Agreement for the purpose of avoiding its terms. Any earlier version of you encountered during such travel shall be treated as a separate user and should be warned about the jumping jacks.

If a future version of the Software has already fixed the problem, please send the patch backward through time in a format compatible with the current build process.

27. FINAL DE-ESCALATION
The actual practical intent is simple: Paste As File is free to use. Install the official copy on your Windows computers. Use it for personal work, business work, creative work, or whatever lawful clipboard-to-file task makes your day slightly less annoying.

Do not sell it, repackage it, mirror it, bundle it with junk, strip off the SourcePotato name, claim you wrote it, or take it apart to make a competing product. Share the official download link instead of passing around mystery binaries.

The Software reads clipboard representations and creates files where you tell it to. Review what you select, keep backups of important things, and do not blame a potato because another program placed nonsense on the clipboard.

It is unsigned freeware. Windows may complain. If that is unacceptable, do not run it.

Fuck it. Just use the free official copy.

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