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The majority of KiCad's source code is developed and distributed under the terms
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of the GPLv3 or later. However, it does include some third-party code licensed
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under other licenses (see below for details).
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These licenses are compatible, but a combined works as is will be governed under
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the terms of the GPLv3 (or later). This includes any binary distribution of the
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KiCad EDA suite by the KiCad project or any third party, e.g. Linux distributor.
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You are free to use the *sources* under the terms of their respective licenses.
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Licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0
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- portions of code in libs/kimath/include/math/util.h
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Licensed under BOOSTv1:
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- libcontext [https://github.com/boostorg/context] in thirdparty/libcontext
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- clipper in thirdparty/clipper
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Licensed under ISC:
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- portions of code in include/geometry/polygon_triangulation.h
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Licensed under MIT:
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- compoundfilereader in thirdparty/compoundfilereader
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- delaunator in thirdparty/delaunator
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- tinyspline_lib in thirdparty/tinyspline_lib
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- nlohmann/json in thirdparty/nlohmann_json
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- nlohmann/fifo_map in thirdparty/nlohmann_json
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- pboettch/json-schema-validator in thirdparty/json_schema_validator
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- picoSHA2 in thirdparty/picosha2
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Licensed under GPLv2 (or later):
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- dxflib in thirdparty/dxflib_qcad
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- potrace in thirdparty/potrace
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- math_for_graphics in thirdparty/other_math
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- SutherlandHodgmanClipPoly in thirdparty/other_math
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Licensed under ZLib:
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- nanosvg in thirdparty/nanosvg
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Licensed in the public domain:
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- lemon in thirdparty/lemon
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Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0:
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- All the demo files provided in demos/*
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Licensed under clause-3 BSD:
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- ibis / kibis files in pcbnew/signalIntegrity
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Licensed under CC0
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- uopamp.lib.spice in some directories in qa/data/eeschema/spice_netlists/
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Licensed under GPLv3 (or later):
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- All remaining code not listed above
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