Terms of Use
The software is yours under its licence. This page is about the servers.
TuxBlox is free software, and nothing here changes what its licence lets you do with it. What these terms cover is the handful of services we run alongside it: the server that tells your launcher about updates and hands it the files, the one that names the region of a Roblox server, the one that receives crash reports, and this website. They cost nothing, they promise nothing, and this page says what we ask in return.
The code is not covered
Running, reading, changing and sharing TuxBlox is governed by its licence, not by this page.
Nothing to pay, nothing promised
The services are free and best effort. They can be slow, down, moved or withdrawn.
No account anywhere
There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to lose. Limits apply per address.
Use them for what they are
They exist to serve TuxBlox installs. They are not general purpose infrastructure.
What this page covers
These terms apply to the three servers listed under The services we run, and to this website. Using any of them means these terms apply to you. If you would rather they did not, the program still runs without them: what you give up is update checks, downloads from us, crash reporting and the server region notification.
TuxBlox is an open-source project rather than a company. These terms deliberately name no legal entity and no governing law, because we are not in a position to make claims about either. They are the rules for using the servers, written plainly, and nothing more than that.
What each service sends and records is a separate question, and the Privacy Policy answers it. This page is about the terms on which you may use them.
Our Discord server is not covered here. It has its own rules, and Discord's terms apply to it.
The software has its own licence
TuxBlox's own code is licensed under the GPLv3. The
compatibility layer in compat/ is LGPLv2.1,
inherited from Wine and Proton. Those licences decide what you may do
with the software: run it, read it, change it, build it, pass it on.
Repository Structure
describes the split.
Nothing on this page restricts a right your licence grants you. If something here looks like it does, the licence wins and this page is wrong.
So you may redistribute TuxBlox, and you do not need to ask. The one thing we ask is that you do not use our download server as the delivery mechanism for doing it at scale — mirror the files onto your own host, or talk to us first. That is a request about our bandwidth, not a condition on the licence.
The services we run
Three servers, each with one job:
- setup.tuxblox.netWhich version your release channel serves and the file list for it, TuxBlox's own downloads, and the list of builds the releases page shows
- geo.tuxblox.netThe region of a Roblox server you joined, answered from a database held on that same machine
- telemetry.tuxblox.netCrash reports, when one is sent
Roblox's own files never come from us. The launcher downloads the Roblox client, and checks which Roblox version is current, from Roblox's servers. Those requests are between you and Roblox, under Roblox's terms.
The website and documentation
This site, the documentation included, is served by GitHub Pages behind Cloudflare. Their terms cover getting the pages to you; ours cover what is on them.
The documentation is not a specification. It describes TuxBlox as it is meant to work, it can be out of date, and it can simply be wrong. A page saying something works is not a promise that it will, and a page is not a commitment to keep behaving the way it describes. Where a page and the program disagree, the program is what you have.
Quoting these pages, linking to them or translating them is fine and
needs no permission. Mirroring the site with a crawler that ignores
robots.txt is the one thing we ask you not to do.
What we ask of you
The services are small, free, and paid for by the people who run them. Keeping them up for everybody means a short list of things not to do with them:
- Do not use them as general purpose infrastructure. The region lookup answers questions about Roblox servers, not about any address you care to send it
- Do not automate bulk downloads, and do not point another project's updater at our download server
- Do not send crash reports that are not crash reports, and do not flood the endpoint with invented ones
- Do not attack, probe or try to get into the servers, and do not interfere with anybody else's use of them
- Do not use them to do anything that is illegal where you are
Reporting a security vulnerability privately is not a breach of these terms, and we will take no action against you for it. No block, no claim, nothing. That holds even if it turns out you were wrong about what you found.
Finding a hole is not probing in the sense above, as long as you report it rather than use it. Reporting a Security Issue is how to do that, and it is the policy these terms point to: it says what is in scope, what a report should contain, and where to send it.
What this does not cover is using what you found, taking a service down to prove it, or reaching into somebody else's data. Those are the things the list above is about.
Rate limits and blocking
We may rate limit a request, refuse it, or block an address altogether. When something is actively hurting a service we will do it immediately and without warning, because the alternative is the service going down for everybody.
There is no account, so a block lands on an address rather than on a person, and it is not a judgement about you. Addresses are shared and reassigned, which means a block can catch somebody who did nothing — that is a limitation of having nothing to sign in to, not an intention.
If you think you have been blocked wrongly, email
contact@tuxblox.net and we will look.
Availability and changes
The services are free and best effort. There is no uptime figure here, no promise that one answers tomorrow, and no promise that it stays at the same address or keeps answering the same way. Any of them can be taken down for maintenance, moved, changed or withdrawn.
TuxBlox is built so that none of that stops you using what you already have. An update check that cannot finish does not prevent a launch, and the Roblox you have installed runs whether or not our servers answer.
We do not promise that any particular release stays downloadable. If a version matters to you, keep your own copy of it.
Who may use these services
You need to be old enough to agree to these terms where you live. If you are not, a parent or legal guardian has to agree to them on your behalf, and they are responsible for your use of the services.
There is nothing to sign up for, so nobody checks this. It is a condition of use rather than a gate.
TuxBlox and Roblox
TuxBlox is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by Roblox Corporation.
Roblox's own terms and rules apply to your Roblox account exactly as they do anywhere else. Running Roblox through TuxBlox does not change them, does not exempt you from them, and enforcement of them is Roblox's decision alone. We cannot appeal a decision about your account and we cannot undo one.
No warranty, no liability
The licence already says the software comes with no warranty. The services are the same: they are provided as they are, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied.
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for what follows from using them. That includes lost work, lost time, a broken or unbootable install, data you cannot get back, a Roblox account that gets actioned, and anything a file you downloaded does once it is on your machine.
Where the law you live under does not allow part of that, that part does not apply to you, and the rest of these terms still does.
Changes to these terms
When these terms change, the "last updated" date at the top of this page moves, and a change worth knowing about is called out in that release's changelog.
Using the services after a change means the changed terms are the ones that apply. If you do not agree with them, stop using the services — the software itself is yours either way, under its licence.
Contact
Anything about this page, including a block you think is wrong:
contact@tuxblox.net.
Security issues go to security@tuxblox.net instead,
and Reporting a Security
Issue describes what to put in one.
Everything else — questions, bugs, help getting started — is best asked in Discord.