Owner legal review and sources

Last updated October 18, 2026

This is an implementation review, not legal advice or a promise of immunity from claims. Public policy text must match the actual operation. A qualified adviser should assess the operator’s location, audience, business activity, and applicable law.

Current assessment

The code review found no application-added advertising, analytics, or marketing-cookie integration. A generic consent banner would not resolve the separate hosting-provider or licensing questions below. Requested project/notes storage and preference storage have different purposes. Preference storage now has a simple opt-out in Settings; it preserves projects and notes. This is an implementation assessment, not a determination that a consent exception applies in every country or that all hosting behavior has been audited.

The 2026 ICO guidance describes exceptions for requested functionality and certain preference-based appearance storage, with transparency and an easy objection where required. If optional tracking, advertising, or other non-exempt storage is introduced, obtain any required consent before activating it, and provide a meaningful refusal/withdrawal mechanism. Reassess the actual audience and the rules of each relevant region.

Implemented

Updated file-processing, project persistence, backup, permissions, hosting, optional speech-download, contact, and donation disclosures.
Kept mandatory consumer rights and third-party software rights; no mandatory arbitration, invented governing jurisdiction, registered agent, or charitable status.
Added accessibility limitations and a barrier-reporting route, copyright reporting, security reporting, and local data-deletion controls.
Kept licenses and source/build information accessible from the site and offline download.

Unresolved owner actions

Corresponding source for binaries: this distribution includes GPL-enabled FFmpeg/x264/x265 and LGPL-family HEIF components. Existing license texts and upstream links do not by themselves establish full source-distribution compliance. Obtain and keep the exact complete corresponding source, dependency revisions, changes, and build instructions for the distributed binaries, then provide them in the manner their licenses require. The bundled provenance inventory is not a representation that this obligation is complete. Do not assume a link to a moving main branch is enough.
Confirm the operator’s legal identity, capacity, country/state, business or trader status, required postal/contact disclosures, taxes, Ko-fi/payment obligations, and any registration requirements. No identity, address, entity, or exemption has been invented.
Assess the regions actually targeted and applicable privacy, local-storage consent, children’s privacy, consumer-protection, accessibility, and international-transfer obligations. A statement that a site is not directed at under-13s is not an exemption if actual practices or audience trigger legal duties.
Review hosting-provider logs, cookies, retention, account terms, and data-processing responsibilities. The application does not control all provider behavior.
Review the dinnerplate name/logo for trademark conflicts in the places and categories where the service is offered. Codec and media-format patent rights are separate from open-source copyright licenses; assess any applicable codec patent licensing for the operator’s use and distribution.
Complete a human accessibility audit with keyboard, screen-reader, zoom, contrast, and mobile-device testing. A statement or automated check is not an ADA/WCAG certification.
If public user uploads/sharing, analytics, ads, accounts, sales, or child-directed features are added, reassess collection/consent, moderation, registered-agent/safe-harbor requirements where applicable, security, and all policies before release.

Primary research sources

Latest review: ICO storage exceptions and objection requirements · FSF corresponding-source guidance · FFmpeg licensing checklist · FTC COPPA guidance · DOJ web accessibility guidance.

Reviewed October 18, 2026. Rules and operational facts can change. Bundled source/provenance inventory.