Legal

Legal & Licenses

Updated September 26, 2026

Publisher

Harshit Garg
Email: harshit.garg@harshit-garg.com
Website: boltchat.harshit-garg.com

Trademarks and affiliation

Boltchat is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Groq, Inc. "Groq" is a trademark of Groq, Inc., used here only to describe the service the app connects to.

Model names such as GPT-OSS and Whisper (OpenAI), Qwen (Alibaba Cloud) and ALLaM (SDAIA) belong to their respective owners. Microsoft, Windows and Microsoft Store are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

Boltchat license

Copyright © 2026 Harshit Garg. Boltchat is released under the MIT License: permission is granted, free of charge, to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense and/or sell copies of the software, provided the copyright notice and permission notice are included. The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind.

This website — its text, design, images, the Boltchat name and logo — is © 2026 Harshit Garg (Boltchat), all rights reserved, and is not covered by the app's MIT License.

Open-source components

Boltchat is built with these open-source projects. Thank you to their authors.

ComponentUsed forLicense
Electron 44Desktop app runtime (includes Chromium and Node.js, under their own licenses shipped with the app)MIT
marked 18Rendering Markdown in repliesMIT
DOMPurify 3Sanitizing rendered contentMPL-2.0 or Apache-2.0
KaTeX 0.18Typesetting mathMIT
KaTeX mhchem extensionChemistry equations (adapted from MathJax mhchem)MIT

The full license texts are included with the installed app.

Artwork

The Boltchat icon and installer artwork were created for this project with AI image generation.