AcreetionOS is free, open-source software offered to everyone with no accounts, no ads, and no strings attached. These terms exist to protect you, our volunteers, and our infrastructure — not to restrict you.
Effective date: August 23, 2026
By accessing acreetionos.org or this download mirror, downloading AcreetionOS, using our mirrors, subscribing to our newsletter, or participating in our community spaces (collectively, the "Services"), you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please do not use the Services.
You must be old enough under your local law to form a binding contract, or have permission from a parent or guardian.
The AcreetionOS project provides:
All Services are offered on a volunteer basis. We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of them at any time without notice. There is no service-level agreement for community-run infrastructure.
AcreetionOS does not require an account, registration, or personal information to download or use the operating system. We collect zero telemetry from the OS. The only personal data we ever process is an email address if you voluntarily subscribe to the newsletter; that handling is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.
The AcreetionOS operating system is free and open-source software released under the GNU General Public License v3. You may run, study, share, and modify it under that license.
The source code and content of the acreetionos.org website are released under the MIT License.
AcreetionOS is built on Arch Linux and includes thousands of third-party software packages. Those packages remain under their own respective licenses, which are not modified by these terms. Nothing in these terms limits your rights under any applicable open-source license.
You agree not to:
We may block abusive traffic or revoke access to project-operated infrastructure at our discretion.
ISO mirrors operated by third parties are independent hosts. They must apply, pass review, keep their mirrors up-to-date and accessible, and act in the project's interests. Hosting provider status may be revoked at any time for failing to meet these obligations. We do not control third-party mirrors and are not responsible for their availability or conduct; always verify downloads against the checksums and signatures we publish.
Bug reports, feature requests, wiki edits, translations, and code contributions are welcome through GitHub and GitLab. By submitting a contribution, you license it to the project under the license of the repository it targets (GPL v3 for the OS, MIT for the website), and you confirm you have the right to do so.
Contributions are voluntary; no compensation is owed, and the core team decides what is merged.
If donations are accepted, they are voluntary contributions to help cover domain, server, build, and tooling costs. Donations are non-refundable, confer no ownership, decision-making power, or special treatment, and are not payment for goods or services.
The Services — including AcreetionOS itself — are provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Rolling-release software carries inherent risk. Back up your data before installing or updating. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the AcreetionOS project, its lead developers, and its contributors shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, or business, arising from or related to your use of the Services — even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with the Services is to stop using them.
The Services link to or rely on third parties such as Discord, Root, GitHub, GitLab, Cloudflare, Google reCAPTCHA, and our mirror partners. Your use of those platforms is subject to their own terms and policies.
AcreetionOS is an independent project based on Arch Linux. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Arch Linux. The Arch Linux trademark is owned by Judd Vinnet and is used with acknowledgment. The name "AcreetionOS" and the official repositories are managed exclusively by the core team; forks are welcome under the license but must clearly identify themselves as unofficial builds.
We may update these terms from time to time. The effective date above will change when we do, and significant updates may be announced on the blog or newsletter. Continued use of the Services after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
Questions about these terms can be sent through the contact page on the main site or filed as an issue on GitHub.
No EULA pops up during install. Using the operating system is governed by the GPL v3, which travels with the software itself. These terms apply when you interact with acreetionos.org, this mirror, and our community services.
Yes, within the rules of the GPL v3. You may copy and redistribute it, and charge for distribution services, as long as recipients get the same freedoms and source code. You may not present unofficial builds as official AcreetionOS releases.
No. The software comes with no warranty, and our liability is limited as described in sections 9 and 10. That said, the community on Discord and the issue trackers will genuinely try to help you fix it.
The Privacy Policy explains what little data we handle and is incorporated into these terms by reference. Short version: no telemetry, no accounts, nothing to track.