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KohAI third party notices
Last updated: [DATE] (draft of 3 October 2026, checked against app/package.json, app/vendor/ and the Windows build in app/dist/win-unpacked/)
KohAI is closed source, made by [LEGAL NAME] (VNP Media). It includes the open source software below. Each part stays under its own licence, and nothing in the KohAI terms limits your rights under those licences. The full licence texts are in the KohAI install folder and in the app under Settings, Open source licences.
KohAI has no runtime npm packages. The app uses the fonts already on your computer and ships no font files.
What ships inside KohAI
| Component | Version | Licence | Copyright | Where the full text is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electron | 44.5.1 | MIT | Copyright (c) Electron contributors; Copyright (c) 2013-2020 GitHub Inc. | LICENSE.electron.txt in the install folder (Windows), KohAI.app/Contents/Resources (Mac) |
| Chromium and its third party parts (inside Electron) | 152.0.7977.130 | Many, mostly BSD-3-Clause, also MIT, Apache-2.0, LGPL and others (about 780 entries) | The Chromium Authors and others | LICENSES.chromium.html in the install folder (Windows), KohAI.app/Contents/Resources (Mac) |
FFmpeg (ffmpeg.dll, inside Electron) | Chromium's copy | LGPL-2.1-or-later | The FFmpeg developers | See the FFmpeg notice below |
| whisper.cpp and ggml (speech to text) | 1.9.4 (commit 927cfce) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2023-2026 The ggml authors | resources/whisper/LICENSE-whisper.cpp.txt |
OpenAI Whisper base model, converted to ggml (ggml-base-q5_1.bin) | base, q5_1 | MIT | Copyright (c) 2022 OpenAI | resources/whisper/LICENSE-whisper-model.txt |
| Pyodide (Python in the practice runner) | 314.0.7 | MPL-2.0 | Pyodide contributors | resources/pyodide/LICENSE-pyodide.txt. Source: github.com/pyodide/pyodide/tree/314.0.7 |
| hiwire (inside Pyodide) | as pinned by Pyodide 314.0.7 | MPL-2.0 | Pyodide contributors | Source: github.com/pyodide/hiwire |
| CPython and its standard library (inside Pyodide) | 3.14.2 | PSF-2.0 (Python Software Foundation License) | Copyright (c) 2001 Python Software Foundation; also CWI, CNRI and BeOpen.com | resources/licenses/LICENSE-cpython.txt (the source of docs.python.org/3.14/license.html) |
| Emscripten runtime and musl libc (inside Pyodide) | Emscripten 5.0.3 | MIT or NCSA; musl MIT | Copyright (c) 2010-2014 Emscripten authors; musl authors | resources/licenses/LICENSE-emscripten.txt, LICENSE-musl.txt |
| zlib (inside Pyodide) | 1.3.1 | Zlib | Copyright (c) 1995-2024 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler | LICENSE-cpython.txt, zlib section |
| bzip2 (inside Pyodide) | as built by Pyodide | bzip2-1.0.6 | Julian Seward | resources/licenses/LICENSE-bzip2.txt |
| liblzma / xz (inside Pyodide) | as built by Pyodide | Public domain or 0BSD | The XZ Utils authors | resources/licenses/LICENSE-xz.txt, LICENSE-xz-0BSD.txt |
| Zstandard (inside Pyodide) | 1.5.7 | BSD-3-Clause | Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates | resources/licenses/LICENSE-zstd.txt |
| SQLite (inside Pyodide) | as built by Pyodide | Public domain (blessing) | none | none required |
| libffi (inside Pyodide) | as built by Pyodide | MIT | Anthony Green, Red Hat, and others | LICENSE-cpython.txt, libffi section |
| expat (inside Pyodide) | 2.x | MIT | Expat maintainers | LICENSE-cpython.txt, expat section |
| libmpdec (inside Pyodide) | as built by CPython | BSD-2-Clause | Stefan Krah | LICENSE-cpython.txt, libmpdec section |
| HACL* (inside CPython) | as built by CPython | MIT | HACL* contributors | resources/licenses/LICENSE-hacl.txt |
Most of the CPython parts (expat, libffi, zlib, libmpdec, Zstandard) are already acknowledged on CPython's own licence page, so shipping that page's text covers most of the Pyodide rows.
What ships inside the Windows installer only
| Component | Licence | Copyright | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| NSIS (the installer engine) | Zlib | Nullsoft and contributors | Notice appreciated, not required |
| Nsis7z plugin (unpacks KohAI during install) | LGPL-2.1 | Igor Pavlov (7-Zip), brainsucker | Needs a notice and a link to its source: nsis.sourceforge.io/Nsis7z_plug-in. Notice in resources/licenses/NOTICE-nsis7z.txt with LICENSE-lgpl-2.1.txt. Kept rather than switching to zip, because the auto updater runs this same installer |
elevate.exe (in resources/) | MIT (Johannes Passing's Elevate, 2007; the binary carries his name and copyright) | Johannes Passing | resources/licenses/LICENSE-elevate.txt. Kept rather than turning off packElevateHelper, because the auto updater runs the installer |
| electron-builder installer scripts | MIT | electron-builder contributors | Courtesy notice |
Mac build: whisper-cli is built from the same whisper.cpp source commit, MIT only, linked to Apple's own Accelerate framework.
FFmpeg notice
KohAI uses libraries from the FFmpeg project under the LGPLv2.1. FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard. The library is the file ffmpeg.dll (Windows) that comes with Electron; KohAI does not change it, and you may replace it with your own build. The source of this copy is at chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/third_party/ffmpeg, and Electron's build of it is published with each Electron release at github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v44.5.1. The text of the LGPL 2.1 is at gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html. LAWYER: FFmpeg's own checklist at ffmpeg.org/legal.html also asks for the notice in the about box and in the end user licence; both are planned.
MPL 2.0 notice (Pyodide, hiwire)
These files are used unchanged. Their source is available at the links in the table above, under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.
Not part of KohAI
The AI tools KohAI starts (Claude Code by Anthropic, Codex by OpenAI, Gemini CLI by Google) are installed by you, separately, and come under their makers' own licences and terms. KohAI does not include or distribute them.
The build tools (electron-builder and its download chain) are used only to make the installer and are not inside the app, apart from the installer parts listed above.
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