ownCloud Desktop Client

Introduction

The ownCloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from ownCloud Server with your computer.

Download

Binary packages

• Refer to the download page https://owncloud.com/desktop-app/

Source code

The ownCloud Desktop Client is developed in Git. Since Git makes it easy to fork and improve the source code and to adapt it to your need, many copies can be found on the Internet, in particular on GitHub. However, the authoritative repository maintained by the developers is located at https://github.com/owncloud/client.

Building from source

This project uses CMake as build system. Please refer to the cmake documentation for general instructions on how to use CMake: https://cmake.org/documentation/.

Further more as meta build system KDE Craft is used. Please refer to the KDE Craft documentation for instructions on how to use Craft: https://community.kde.org/Craft.

For easy to use instructions on how to build the ownCloud Desktop Client please have a look at https://github.com/owncloud/ownbuild.

Reporting issues and contributing

If you find any bugs or have any suggestion for improvement, please file an issue at https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues. Do not contact the authors directly by mail, as this increases the chance of your report being lost.

If you created a patch, please submit a Pull Request. For non-trivial patches, we need you to sign the Contributor Agreement before we can accept your patch.

Maintainers and Contributors

ownCloud Desktop Client is developed by the ownCloud community and receives patches from a variety of authors.

Past maintainers:

• Markus Goetz guruz@owncloud.com
• Olivier Goffart ogoffart@owncloud.com
• Christian Kamm mail@ckamm.de
• Thomas Müller thomas.mueller@owncloud.com
• Klaas Freitag freitag@owncloud.com
• Daniel Molkentin daniel@molkentin.de
• Andreas Schneider asn@cryptomilk.org

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.