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  "slug": "cutwire-drift",
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  "use_label": "Video editing for Shorts and game clips",
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    "take": "A GPLv3 editor that flatly refuses the usual ending of a free editor — a watermark or a login wall — with the caveat that it is still in 0.x releases.",
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      "Because the MCP server lets an agent import media, place clips and export, you could wire up a semi-automatic pipeline that cuts one long recording into several Shorts. GPL-3.0 means derivatives must publish their source."
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        "situation": "MP4 and GIF export without a watermark"
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        "text": "# Windows (.exe / portable zip), macOS (.dmg, Apple Silicon) and Android (APK) builds are on the latest GitHub release"
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        "text": "adb install Drift-*-arm64-v8a.apk   # on a phone"
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    "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.",
    "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.",
    "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.",
    "Reconstructed from archive data, not a live discovery.",
    "A summary, not legal advice."
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