Ather Core incorporates open source software. Ather Audio and its affiliates are grateful to the authors and contributors of these projects. This page summarizes notable third-party components bundled in our source. The complete license text for each component is included in the corresponding LICENSE, COPYING, or LICENSE.md file within that source distribution. If you require a consolidated notice in another format, contact [email protected].
Binary releases may also link against operating-system libraries (for example OpenSSL) supplied by the platform; consult your OS or SDK documentation for those terms.
License identifiers below follow SPDX-style naming where practical.
| Project | Use | License |
|---|---|---|
| Opus | Audio codec | BSD-3-Clause (Xiph.Org Foundation et al.) |
| nlohmann/json | JSON parsing | MIT |
| RtAudio | Cross-platform audio I/O | MIT (similar terms) |
| libsamplerate | Sample rate conversion | BSD-2-Clause |
| gRPC | RPC framework and tooling | Apache-2.0 |
| Protocol Buffers | Message serialization (via gRPC) | BSD-3-Clause |
| Abseil | C++ library (via gRPC) | Apache-2.0 |
| RE2 | Regular expressions (via gRPC) | BSD-3-Clause |
| c-ares | Async DNS (via gRPC) | MIT |
| zlib | Compression (via gRPC) | Zlib |
| libre | Real-time communication stack (SIP, media) | BSD-3-Clause |
| cpp-httplib | HTTP/HTTPS client & server | MIT |
| libdatachannel | WebRTC data & peer connectivity | MPL-2.0 |
| libjuice | ICE / STUN / TURN (libdatachannel) | MPL-2.0 |
| libsrtp | SRTP (libdatachannel) | BSD-3-Clause–style (Cisco) |
| plog | Logging (libdatachannel) | MIT |
| usrsctp | SCTP userspace (libdatachannel) | BSD-3-Clause |
| libsdptransform | SDP parsing & generation | MIT |
| inih | INI file parsing | BSD-3-Clause |
The gRPC sources under modules/grpc may include further third-party code in third_party/; each subdirectory there ships with its own license file. Refer to the upstream gRPC NOTICE and project documentation for a full accounting when needed.
GoogleTest and related tooling may be built when tests are enabled; they are not required to run Ather Core in production. See modules/grpc/third_party/googletest for the BSD-3-Clause license.
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