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- LICENSE (GPL-3.0) at the root; an MIT LICENSE in each components/aes67_* and in web/, so they travel with the code when reused. - THIRD_PARTY.md: third-party code and licences, and the known conflict of the Espressif binary audio libraries with GPL-3.0 (firmware contains cspot). - CLAUDE.md: rule to keep GPL code out of the core; phase 2 item to replace the Espressif binaries (opencore-aacdec, Speex resampler). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Licences
This project
| Part | Licence |
|---|---|
AES67 core: components/aes67_* (each has its own LICENSE) |
MIT |
Web page: web/index.html (web/LICENSE) |
MIT |
Everything else: main/, components/spotify/ (incl. our cspot/bell patches), tools/, docs, build files |
GPL-3.0-or-later (LICENSE) |
The core is MIT so it can be reused in other AES67 projects, including closed ones. It must not depend on GPL code: nothing in components/aes67_* may include or link cspot or main/.
The firmware image as a whole contains cspot (GPL-3.0), so anyone who distributes the firmware (a .bin or a flashed board) must do so under GPL-3.0, with the complete corresponding source.
Third-party code in the firmware
| Code | Used for | Licence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
cspot (philippe44 fork, external/cspot) |
Spotify Connect | GPL-3.0-or-later | Our patches: components/spotify/patches/cspot |
| bell (cspot submodule) | cspot's I/O and utilities | no licence file | Part of the cspot project; licence to be confirmed with the author |
| tremor (via bell) | Vorbis decoding (Spotify) | BSD-3-Clause (Xiph.Org) | |
| nanopb (via bell) | Protobuf (Spotify protocol) | zlib | |
| ESP-IDF, incl. mbedTLS, esp_http_server, esp_eth | Platform, TLS, web server, Ethernet | Apache-2.0 | mbedTLS is dual Apache-2.0 / GPL-2.0-or-later |
| lwIP | TCP/IP | BSD-3-Clause | |
| FreeRTOS | RTOS | MIT | |
| cJSON | JSON | MIT | |
| espressif/mdns | mDNS | Apache-2.0 | |
| espressif/esp_audio_codec | AAC decoding (HLS) | Espressif Modified MIT, prebuilt binary | Only allowed with Espressif chips; no source |
| espressif/esp_audio_effects, gmf_fft | 44.1 → 48 kHz conversion | Espressif Modified MIT; esp_audio_effects is a prebuilt binary | as above |
Algorithms: pink noise uses Paul Kellet's filter and a xorshift32 generator (both public domain).
Known conflict
The two Espressif binary libraries can't be distributed under GPL-3.0: there is no source, and "Espressif chips only" is an additional restriction that GPL-3.0 forbids. A firmware image containing both them and cspot therefore can't be distributed in line with GPL-3.0. Private use is not affected.
Planned fix (phase 2 in CLAUDE.md): replace them with open code, e.g. opencore-aacdec (Apache-2.0, already in bell/external) for AAC and the Speex resampler (BSD) for the sample-rate conversion. The Speex resampler can also do the fine rate steering the clock-drift correction needs.