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October 22, 2021 - 11:49pm
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RabbitRednck
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LivingWriter-Authoring Application Dev-Test 1

LivingWriterPortable- An app for authors. Write, modify, and create amazing stories, and have them synced across all your devices! This app is wrapped using a chromium wrapper. It allows for access to the Living Writer Author's portal without the use of a browser. Distraction and ad free. Living Writer currently supports iOS, Android, Web, and now with this portable app, it can be used on Windows as well!

Check It out here!

[Download link removed pending confirmation of license terms & permission to distribute - mod GC]

This link is safe, an the appliocation itself is safe. I host the application on my own web servers to provide speed, security, and stability.

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October 23, 2021 - 12:24am
Gord Caswell
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Affiliated with LivingWriter, Not permitted by license?

Hello,

Are you affiliated with LivingWriter, and if so, can we get permission in writing to distribute this?

The terms of use for LivingWriter are clear that this is not permitted:

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Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on LivingWriter LLC.'s web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:
modify or copy the materials;
use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on LivingWriter LLC.'s web site;
remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server.
This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by LivingWriter LLC. at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

Until such time as permission has been confirmed, I am removing the download link.

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October 23, 2021 - 10:23am
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RabbitRednck
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Thank you

@Gord Caswell
As an author and programmer, I truly appreciate your wont to protect LivingWriter LLC.; however, my software does not invalidate, violate, or otherwise go against their Terms and Conditioning or licensing as my software is merely a Chromium Browser wrapper that is allowing you access to the Living Writer Website. It would be the same as accessing the site using a chrome browser and such is allowed under their licensing. It is merely a browser app that has access to one website, and one website only. I did not download or distribute proprietary software or code to develop this app.It is not an HTA app either. It is basically a chromium based browser that is programmed to access LivingWriter's site, it also lacks basic toolbar, URL functionality, bookmarks, history, settings, and what you would normally see in a browser. I am myself an author and I hated having to open Waterfox Browser to access my book. I wanted it to be more of an app like experience. This was the reasoning behind my creation of the app. Unfortunately, as you yourself have seen, their Terms and Conditions prevented me from making a locally run app, so I merely developed an alternative way to access the data that they make publicly available.

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” – Albert Einstein

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