Copyright (c) 2026 REY SANDU GODAKUMBURA https://www.lifebeyondstars.com All rights reserved. No part of the Transit Chaser software, in source or compiled form, including associated documentation, scripts, code, user interface design, branding, layout, original text, logos, or original website materials, may be copied, modified, distributed, republished, reverse-engineered, decompiled, disassembled, sold, sublicensed, or used in any way without the express prior written permission of the author, except where expressly permitted by applicable law or by the licence terms of any third-party open-source components used by the project. Unauthorized use, reproduction, redistribution, rebranding, or commercial exploitation of this software, or any portion of it, is strictly prohibited and may result in civil or criminal penalties. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Ownership Clarification Transit Chaser is created and maintained by Rey Sandu Godakumbura. The author owns the Transit Chaser code, website design, branding, original written content, original scripts, original documentation, and original application materials, except for third-party components, third-party data, and user-submitted content described below. The author does not own third-party flight data, third-party APIs, third-party receiver networks, aircraft data, airline data, airport schedule data, map data, browser services, email delivery systems, advertising services, analytics services, or open-source libraries used by the application. The author does not claim ownership of user-submitted photographs, user-submitted captions, user-submitted social links, or other community content uploaded or provided by users. Such content remains owned by its original creator or rights holder. By submitting or uploading content to Transit Chaser, the user grants Transit Chaser a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to display, feature, resize, crop, store, reproduce, and share that content within the app, website, gallery, community pages, social posts, promotional material, or related Transit Chaser pages for the purpose of showcasing the app and the community. This permission does not transfer ownership of the content to Transit Chaser. Users are responsible for ensuring they own or have permission to share any content they upload or submit. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Acknowledgments and Third-Party Data/Components 1. **SunCalc** This app uses SunCalc: https://github.com/mourner/suncalc SunCalc is provided under the MIT License. The SunCalc copyright notice and MIT License terms remain applicable to SunCalc code. Any redistribution of SunCalc code, whether modified or unmodified, must retain the required original copyright and licence notices. 2. **adsb.fi** Transit Chaser currently uses adsb.fi as its standard community ADS-B aircraft-data source: https://adsb.fi/ adsb.fi provides aircraft data through its own systems, receivers, community infrastructure, API rules, data formats, rate limits, and terms. Transit Chaser does not own, operate, control, sell, or guarantee adsb.fi data. adsb.fi data remains subject to adsb.fi’s own terms, policies, availability, technical limits, and usage rules. Access may be rate-limited, blocked, changed, or discontinued at any time. 3. **Airplanes.live** Transit Chaser may support Airplanes.live where access is available and permitted by Airplanes.live: https://airplanes.live/ Airplanes.live provides aircraft data through its own systems, receivers, community infrastructure, API rules, data formats, rate limits, and terms. Transit Chaser does not own, operate, control, sell, or guarantee Airplanes.live data. Airplanes.live data remains subject to Airplanes.live’s own terms, policies, availability, technical limits, and usage rules. Access may be rate-limited, blocked, changed, or discontinued at any time. 4. **ADS-B Exchange** Transit Chaser may include optional support for ADS-B Exchange or related access methods: https://www.adsbexchange.com/ ADS-B Exchange data is subject to ADS-B Exchange’s own terms, licensing, pricing, access rules, and rate limits. Users are responsible for complying with any applicable ADS-B Exchange, RapidAPI, or related provider terms when using credentials or API access. 5. **OpenSky Network** Transit Chaser may include legacy or optional support for OpenSky Network: https://opensky-network.org/ OpenSky data is subject to OpenSky’s own terms, API rules, access policies, and rate limits. OpenSky may change access rules or availability at any time. Transit Chaser does not own or guarantee OpenSky data. 6. **Sydney Airport Schedule Data** Transit Chaser may use public or third-party Sydney Airport schedule information for features such as Big Planes mode: https://www.sydneyairport.com.au/ Schedule data may be delayed, changed, cancelled, incomplete, or unavailable. Transit Chaser does not own or guarantee Sydney Airport, airline, or airport schedule data. 7. **FlyItalyADSB** Transit Chaser may use FlyItalyADSB as a server-side authenticated fallback aircraft-data source: https://flyitalyadsb.com/ FlyItalyADSB publishes its distributed ADS-B/MLAT data under CC BY-SA 4.0 and requires attribution. FlyItalyADSB API access, data, rate limits, availability, and licensing remain subject to FlyItalyADSB’s current published terms and conditions. Transit Chaser does not own, operate, control, sell, or guarantee FlyItalyADSB data. 8. **Browser Geolocation** Transit Chaser may request the user’s geographical coordinates through the browser’s Geolocation API or allow users to manually enter or select a location. Location is used to calculate sky geometry and possible aircraft alignments. Transit Chaser does not claim ownership of this data and does not intentionally store precise user location on its servers for long-term tracking. 9. **Email Delivery Providers** Transit Chaser may use third-party email delivery providers to send optional alert emails or test emails. Email delivery may fail, be delayed, be rate-limited, or be filtered into spam or junk folders. Transit Chaser does not guarantee email delivery. 10. **Hosting, Analytics, Advertising, and Other Services** Transit Chaser may use hosting, analytics, advertising, mapping, security, storage, or infrastructure providers, including services such as Vercel and Google services. These services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Third-Party Terms and Availability Third-party providers, including but not limited to adsb.fi, adsb.lol, FlyItalyADSB, Plane.watch, Airplanes.live, ADS-B Exchange, OpenSky, Sydney Airport, SunCalc, hosting providers, email providers, analytics providers, and advertising providers, may change their terms of service, pricing, rate limits, data formats, availability, API access, or technical behaviour at any time. The author is not responsible for service disruptions, policy changes, data inaccuracies, access restrictions, rate limits, provider outages, account issues, billing issues, or data-format changes caused by third-party services. It is the user’s responsibility to verify and comply with all applicable third-party terms before using the app or any related credentials, APIs, data sources, or services. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Privacy and User Data Transit Chaser is designed as a browser-based photography and community tool. Location data, manual coordinates, settings, detection logs, email alert preferences, and similar app data may be stored locally in the user’s browser using localStorage, sessionStorage, cookies, or similar browser technologies. Transit Chaser does not sell user personal information. Transit Chaser does not intentionally store long-term user-specific flight histories or precise location histories on its own servers. However, temporary technical logs may be created by hosting providers, email providers, analytics providers, advertising providers, security providers, or other infrastructure services as part of normal operation. Users may clear local app data through their browser settings. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## User-Submitted Content Users may submit, upload, or share photographs, captions, names, handles, social links, comments, or other community content. Users retain ownership of their submitted content unless otherwise agreed in writing. By submitting content, users confirm that they own the content or have permission to share it, and that the content does not infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights. The author may remove, hide, edit, crop, resize, decline, or disable user-submitted content at any time for any reason, including suspected copyright infringement, inappropriate content, technical issues, incorrect attribution, community concerns, or legal risk. If you believe your rights have been infringed by content shown on Transit Chaser, please contact the author with enough information to identify the content and the claim. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Acceptable Use Users must not use Transit Chaser to: - Scrape, bulk-download, harvest, overload, attack, or abuse the app or any third-party data source; - Bypass provider rate limits, access restrictions, blocks, or technical protections; - Use bots, automated scripts, or excessive polling to request aircraft data; - Use the app for aviation safety, navigation, emergency response, drone avoidance, aircraft separation, air-traffic control, or any safety-critical purpose; - Track, harass, target, endanger, or identify people, aircraft, organisations, or locations in an unlawful or harmful way; - Upload content they do not own or do not have permission to share; - Upload illegal, infringing, harmful, abusive, hateful, adult, misleading, or otherwise inappropriate content; - Misrepresent the app, its data sources, or its relationship with third-party providers. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Photography and Informational Use Only Transit Chaser is provided for photography planning, astronomy/skywatching, hobby, educational, and community purposes only. Transit Chaser must not be used for aviation safety, navigation, flight operations, drone operations, emergency response, aircraft separation, legal compliance, or any other safety-critical or operational purpose. Flight data, schedule data, aircraft type information, callsigns, altitudes, headings, speeds, celestial calculations, predictions, alerts, and alignments may be delayed, incomplete, inaccurate, unavailable, or wrong. A predicted transit may not happen. A real transit may be missed. The author makes no guarantee that any alert, prediction, direction, aircraft type, flight number, or alignment is correct. Use Transit Chaser at your own risk. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Trademark and Branding “Transit Chaser”, “LifeBeyondStars.com”, and related branding, names, logos, graphics, designs, and trade dress are owned by Rey Sandu Godakumbura unless otherwise stated. No part of the app may be redistributed, copied, rebranded, republished, cloned, or presented under the same or confusingly similar branding without express prior written permission. Third-party names, logos, providers, services, APIs, and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners. Reference to third-party services does not imply endorsement, partnership, sponsorship, or approval unless expressly stated. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## DMCA, Copyright, and Takedown Requests The author reserves the right to enforce intellectual-property rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Australian copyright law, and any equivalent local legislation where applicable. If you believe that content, code, images, or material connected to Transit Chaser infringes your copyright or other rights, please contact the author with enough information to identify the material and your claim: https://www.lifebeyondstars.com/contact or sandu.godakumbura@gmail.com The author may remove or disable access to disputed content while reviewing the request. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## No Support or Maintenance The author is under no obligation to provide support, maintenance, bug fixes, compatibility updates, feature updates, data-source replacements, or future development. Transit Chaser may be changed, paused, limited, discontinued, or removed at any time without notice. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Compiled, Minified, and Obfuscated Code Reproduction of this LICENSE file in its entirety is required whenever any portion of this software is duplicated, redistributed, republished, compiled, minified, obfuscated, mirrored, or otherwise made available, except where a third-party open-source licence specifically provides otherwise for that third-party component. Removing, altering, hiding, or omitting this LICENSE text from any copied, derived, redistributed, or republished version of the author-owned portions of Transit Chaser constitutes a violation of the author’s rights. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Local-Law Carve-Out If any provision of this LICENSE is held invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable under applicable law, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. Nothing in this LICENSE is intended to exclude, restrict, or modify rights that cannot be excluded, restricted, or modified under applicable law. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability THIS SOFTWARE AND WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, REY SANDU GODAKUMBURA (THE “AUTHOR”) DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, COMPATIBILITY, AND RELIABILITY. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF, INABILITY TO USE, PERFORMANCE OF, OR RELIANCE ON TRANSIT CHASER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MISSED PHOTOGRAPHIC OPPORTUNITIES, INCORRECT PREDICTIONS, INACCURATE FLIGHT DATA, PROVIDER OUTAGES, EMAIL FAILURES, LOST CONTENT, LOST DATA, DEVICE ISSUES, TRAVEL COSTS, PERSONAL INJURY, PROPERTY DAMAGE, LEGAL ISSUES, OR THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS, EVEN IF THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. USE TRANSIT CHASER AT YOUR OWN RISK. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Developer Acknowledgment This application was built with assistance from OpenAI tools. AI-assisted code, documentation, wording, and feature planning may contain mistakes, omissions, bugs, inaccuracies, or security issues. Any errors, omissions, or inaccuracies in the app, code, documentation, legal pages, or related materials are the responsibility of the author. If you discover a mistake, bug, issue, or concern, please contact the author: https://www.lifebeyondstars.com/contact or sandu.godakumbura@gmail.com ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ## Version History - 2025-01-01: Initial release of Transit-Tracker. - 2025-06-09: Updated provider acknowledgments and RadarBox references. - 2026-05-31: Updated license for Transit Chaser branding, Airplanes.live usage, third-party data disclaimers, user-submitted content, email alerts, analytics/advertising services, AI-assisted development disclosure, and photography-only use. - 2026-07-08: Updated provider acknowledgements to add adsb.fi as the current standard aircraft-data source and clarify Airplanes.live as permitted/available access only. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Reproduction of this LICENSE file in its entirety is required whenever any portion of the author-owned Transit Chaser software, code, website, design, branding, documentation, or original material is duplicated, redistributed, republished, compiled, minified, obfuscated, mirrored, or otherwise made available. Any attempt to remove, alter, hide, or omit this LICENSE text from any copied, derived, redistributed, or republished version constitutes a violation of the author’s rights.