Third-Party Notices
Stagewright includes the following third-party software. These acknowledgements are distributed with the application (shown under About > Licenses) and published at https://docs.nubisco.io/stagewright/licenses/.
Last updated: 2026-06-22.
JUCE 8.0.14
The JUCE Framework, used under a commercial JUCE 8 licence (JUCE Indie). The framework is dual-licensed under AGPLv3 or the commercial JUCE licence; Stagewright uses the commercial licence. Copyright (c) Raw Material Software Limited.
- https://juce.com
- JUCE 8 End User Licence Agreement: https://juce.com/legal/juce-8-licence/
JUCE bundles further components, compiled into the modules Stagewright links. Each is under a permissive license; full texts ship in the JUCE source tree:
- AudioUnitSDK — Apache 2.0
- FLAC — BSD
- Ogg Vorbis — BSD
- jpeglib — Independent JPEG Group License
- CHOC (incl. QuickJS) — ISC / MIT
- Box2D — zlib
- pnglib — zlib
- zlib — zlib
- HarfBuzz — "Old MIT"
- SheenBidi — Apache 2.0
- LV2 — ISC
VST3 SDK
VST3 SDK 3.8.0, bundled with JUCE 8.0.14. The MIT License.
Copyright (c) 2025, Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, registered in Europe and other countries. The trademark/logo terms apply only if the VST logo is used.
QuickJS-NG v0.8.0
Powers Stagewright's scripting layer. The MIT License (MIT).
Copyright (c) 2017-2021 Fabrice Bellard Copyright (c) 2017-2021 Charlie Gordon Copyright (c) 2023 Ben Noordhuis Copyright (c) 2023 Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
doctest v2.4.11
The MIT License (MIT). Copyright (c) 2016-2023 Viktor Kirilov.
Note: doctest is used only by the engine test target (stagewright_engine_tests) and is not linked into the distributed runtime binary. Listed here for completeness; no distribution obligation arises from it.
Space Grotesk (font)
SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2020 The Space Grotesk Project Authors (https://github.com/floriankarsten/space-grotesk). The variable-weight woff2 is bundled at app/public/fonts/SpaceGrotesk-Variable.woff2 and used as the application display face. The OFL permits bundling with software under any license provided the font is not sold by itself; the full license text is available at https://openfontlicense.org.
Bundled JavaScript packages (app frontend)
The desktop app's frontend bundle ships ~80 npm packages, all under permissive licenses (MIT, ISC, BSD-2/3-Clause, Apache-2.0, or MIT/Apache dual). The full per-package list with licenses can be regenerated with pnpm licenses list --prod in app/. Notable inclusions and their copyright notices:
- Monaco Editor (the Logic panel's code editor) — MIT. Copyright (c) 2016 - present Microsoft Corporation.
- TypeScript (Monaco's language service) — Apache License 2.0. Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
- Vue.js — MIT. Copyright (c) 2013-present, Yuxi (Evan) You.
- PixiJS (the back-canvas GPU renderer) — MIT. Copyright (c) 2013-2023 Mathew Groves, Chad Engler.
- vue-i18n — MIT. Copyright (c) 2016 kazuya kawaguchi.
- Zod — MIT. Copyright (c) 2020 Colin McDonnell.
- qrcode — MIT. Copyright (c) 2012 Ryan Day.
- html-to-image — MIT. Copyright (c) 2017 W.Y.
The MIT License text, applying to every MIT-licensed package above and in the regenerated list:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Apache License 2.0 packages (TypeScript; Tauri's JS API under its MIT option is used instead): full text at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
Tauri / Rust crates (app/src-tauri)
The desktop shell links 500+ Rust crates, overwhelmingly under MIT and/or Apache-2.0, plus permissive-with-attribution licenses (Unicode-3.0, ISC, BSD, Zlib, BSL-1.0, 0BSD, Unlicense, CC0). The full per-crate list can be regenerated with cargo license in app/src-tauri/.
The following crates are under MPL-2.0 (weak, file-level copyleft; included unmodified). Their source is available from crates.io and the Servo project:
- cssparser
- cssparser-macros
- dtoa-short
- option-ext
- selectors
MPL-2.0 license text: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/