Information required under § 5 of the German Digital Services Act (Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz, DDG) and § 18 (2) of the Interstate Media Treaty (Medienstaatsvertrag, MStV).
Provider / Diensteanbieter
Viacheslav Shynkarenko
c/o COCENTER
Koppoldstr. 1
86551 Aichach
Germany
This is a personal, non-commercial website operated by a private individual. It is the project site for Niobe, free and open-source software: nothing here is sold, there is no paid tier, no subscription, no advertising and no sponsorship. There is no company, no VAT identification number, no commercial register entry, no regulated professional activity, and no supervisory authority within the meaning of § 5 (1) nos. 3–6 DDG.
Contact / Kontakt
Email: slavik@slavikdev.com
Email is the fastest way to reach me and I read everything. There is no telephone number: § 5 (1) no. 2 DDG requires a means of rapid electronic contact and direct communication, which a monitored email address satisfies.
Bug reports and feature requests are better placed in the issue tracker, where the answer is useful to everyone who has the same question.
Responsible for editorial content / Verantwortlich für den Inhalt
Pursuant to § 18 (2) MStV:
Viacheslav Shynkarenko
c/o COCENTER
Koppoldstr. 1
86551 Aichach
Germany
Niobe and this site are published under the name Slavik Shynkarenko, which is the short form of the legal name given above. Both refer to the same person.
The software / Die Software
Niobe itself is not this website. Its source code is published at github.com/niobe-dev/niobe under the Apache License, Version 2.0, and that licence — not this notice — governs its use.
Two of its clauses are worth naming here, because people read a project website as a product page. Under section 7 the software is provided on an “AS IS” basis, without warranties or conditions of any kind, express or implied. Under section 8 the contributors are not liable for damages arising from its use. Nothing on this site is a warranty, a guarantee of fitness for any purpose, or an assurance that a release will keep working.
Mandatory statutory liability — in particular for intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) — is unaffected by this and cannot be excluded.
Consumer dispute resolution / Verbraucherstreitbeilegung
I am neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle).
No link to the European Online Dispute Resolution platform is given here: that platform ceased operations on 20 July 2025 and the underlying obligation no longer applies. Templates that still reference it are out of date.
Liability for content / Haftung für Inhalte
The content of these pages was created with care, and the documentation is written against the behaviour of the shipped binary. I still cannot guarantee that it is accurate, complete or current — software changes, and a page can lag behind it. Under § 7 (1) DDG I am responsible for my own content on these pages according to general law. Under §§ 8 to 10 DDG I am not obliged to monitor transmitted or stored third-party information, or to investigate circumstances that indicate unlawful activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information under general law remain unaffected; liability in that respect begins only from the point at which a concrete infringement becomes known. Should I become aware of any such infringement, I will remove the content promptly.
Liability for links / Haftung für Links
This site links to external websites — GitHub above all — over whose content I have no control. I cannot accept liability for that third-party content; the respective provider or operator of those pages is always responsible for them. Linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time of linking, and no unlawful content was apparent. Permanent monitoring of linked pages is not reasonable without concrete evidence of an infringement. Should I become aware of any such infringement, I will remove the link promptly.
Copyright / Urheberrecht
The text, design and images of these pages are subject to German copyright law. Reproduction, adaptation, distribution and any kind of exploitation beyond the limits of copyright require my written consent. Downloads and copies of this page are permitted for private, non-commercial use.
This does not restrict the software: Niobe’s source code is licensed under Apache-2.0 and may be used under that licence’s terms, which are broader than anything on this page.
The typefaces served by this site — Space Grotesk and JetBrains Mono — are used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and remain the property of their authors. Where other content here was not created by me, third-party copyrights are respected and such content is marked as third-party. If you notice a copyright infringement, please tell me and I will remove the content promptly.
This notice is written in English because this site is published in English. The German statutory terms are given alongside so the document remains findable and verifiable for German readers and authorities. See also the Privacy Policy / Datenschutzerklärung.