Open-Source Licenses

LymeScribe is built on excellent open-source software. We're grateful to the authors of the projects below. Each component remains under its own license, and its copyright and permission notices travel with the product. The same acknowledgements are available inside the app (Settings → About) and are installed alongside LymeScribe Server as THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt. Full license texts are available on request.

LymeScribe for Mac

Bundled with the app

• Sparkle — MIT License. sparkle-project/Sparkle
• SignalR-Client-Swift — MIT License. moozzyk/SignalR-Client-Swift
• whisper.cpp and ggml — MIT License. ggml-org/whisper.cpp

Downloaded and run on your own device

These are fetched to your Mac and are not redistributed by LymeScribe.

• OpenAI Whisper models (e.g. large-v3) — MIT License. openai/whisper
• WhisperX — BSD 2-Clause License. m-bain/whisperX
• PyTorch — BSD 3-Clause License. pytorch.org
• pyannote.audio — MIT License. pyannote/pyannote-audio
• pyannote speaker-diarization model — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Model card

LymeScribe Server

Bundled with the server

• .NET Runtime and ASP.NET Core — MIT License. dotnet/runtime
• System.CommandLine — MIT License. dotnet/command-line-api
• LiteDB — MIT License. mbdavid/LiteDB
• Serilog and its sinks — Apache License 2.0. serilog/serilog

Downloaded and run on your own server

These are installed by the operator and are not redistributed by LymeScribe.

• WhisperX — BSD 2-Clause License. m-bain/whisperX
• faster-whisper and CTranslate2 — MIT License.
• PyTorch — BSD 3-Clause License. pytorch.org
• pyannote.audio — MIT License. pyannote/pyannote-audio
• OpenAI Whisper models — MIT License. openai/whisper
• pyannote speaker-diarization model — CC BY 4.0.
• FFmpeg (operator-installed) — LGPL/GPL depending on build. ffmpeg.org

Trademarks

Product and project names above are trademarks of their respective owners. Their inclusion acknowledges the software LymeScribe relies on and does not imply endorsement.