Creator Agreement

Version 2026-10-07 · Last updated October 7, 2026

This agreement applies when you publish on the DesktopEngine store: dynamic wallpapers, widgets and desktop companions made with the SDK, and pictures and video wallpapers. It adds to the Terms of Service, and what you publish must follow the Content Policy. You accept it in the store’s account window before your first item; when it changes, you accept the new version before publishing again.

Becoming a creator

• Publishing is by invitation for now. An invitation is for you, not to pass on.
• You choose a namespace: your items’ ids start with app.desktopengine.<namespace>. It can’t change after your first item is published, and it can’t pretend to be someone else or DesktopEngine.
• Publishing tokens (for desktopengine publish in CI) act as you: keep them secret, and revoke the ones you no longer use.

What stays yours, and what you let us do

You keep all rights in what you publish. You give DesktopEngine a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license, for as long as an item is published and as described below after that, to:

• review it: run it on our review Macs and in browsers, take screenshots, read the text in them, measure its energy use, and compare it with other content;
• store it, convert it (for example, transcode videos and make previews), encrypt it, and distribute it to people who install it, who may then use it under the Terms of Service;
• run it in the store’s try-on on the web, and show its title, description, screenshots and your creator name on the store, on its share cards and in DesktopEngine’s own promotion of the store.

What you promise

• You made it, or you have the rights to publish it this way, including any fonts, music, pictures, code and libraries in it; the copyright details you give for each item (original, licensed, open license) are true.
• You mark items made with generative AI as such.
• It does what its listing says, and nothing hidden: the permissions and network domains it declares are the ones it needs, and it uses the network only for the purpose you state.
• It follows the Content Policy and the law where it’s offered.

Review, removal and revocation

• Every version is reviewed before it’s published, and changes to a published item’s listing are reviewed too. We can reject a version or a listing, and we tell you why.
• You can take an item out of the store at any time. People who installed it keep their copy, and it keeps working for them; that’s part of what they got.
• We can remove an item from the store if it breaks this agreement, the Content Policy or the law, or after a valid copyright notice. If an item is harmful (for example, it misuses what it’s allowed to do), we can also revoke it, and it stops running on every Mac. We tell you either way, and you can reply if you think it’s a mistake.
• Copyright notices are handled as the Terms of Service say, including counter-notices. An account with three items taken down after copyright notices can no longer publish.

Money

In this first phase the store is free: you aren’t paid for your items and people don’t pay to install them. If paid items or revenue sharing come later, they’ll be in a new version of this agreement that you accept first.

Your data as a creator

Your creator name and namespace are shown with your items. We keep the files you upload, the review results and which version of this agreement you accepted; the Privacy Policy says for how long. You see how often your items are installed and how many people keep them as favorites, never who.

Leaving

If you delete your account, your items leave the store; copies people installed keep working. We keep the record of what was published and how it was reviewed, without your email address, to handle reports and legal requests. We can end this agreement for an account that breaks it, as the Terms of Service describe.

Responsibility

You’re responsible for what you publish. If someone makes a claim against DesktopEngine because your item broke this agreement or someone else’s rights, you’ll cover the reasonable costs of it, as far as the law allows. Otherwise the warranty and liability limits of the Terms of Service apply.

Changes

A new version of this agreement gets a new version number and is posted here. You accept it in the store before publishing again; what you already published stays as it is.