License

License

FindRomCover is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Summary

The GPL v3 gives you the freedom to:

• use the software for any purpose;
• study how it works and modify it;
• share copies with others;
• share modified versions, provided they remain under the same license.

In return, you must:

• keep the license and copyright notices intact;
• make the source code of distributed versions (including modifications) available under the GPL v3;
• state significant changes you made.

This summary is not legal advice. The binding terms are in the full license text.

Full license text

The complete license is available in the repository:

• LICENSE.txt
• GNU GPL v3 on gnu.org

Third-party components

FindRomCover builds on excellent open-source projects:

Component	License / project
Avalonia (UI, desktop, Fluent theme, WebView)	MIT — cross-platform .NET UI framework
Magick.NET (ImageMagick)	Apache-2.0 / ImageMagick license
Serilog and sinks	Apache-2.0 — structured logging
Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection	MIT
Microsoft.Data.Sqlite	MIT
MessagePack	MIT
WebView engine	Platform-provided: WebView2 (Microsoft) on Windows, WKWebView (Apple) on macOS, WebKitGTK (LGPL) on Linux
xUnit	Apache-2.0
FluentAssertions	Xceed community license (non-commercial)
Moq	BSD-3-Clause
coverlet	MIT
Meziantou.Analyzer, Roslynator.Analyzers, Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Analyzers	MIT / Apache-2.0 — build-time analyzers (not shipped)

Refer to each project's repository for the exact license terms. The former WPF application has been removed from the repository; its icon assets live on in FindRomCover/icon/.

MAME data

mame.dat contains data derived from the MAME project. MAME is distributed under its own license; see the MAME project for details.

Trademarks

All game titles, platform names, and trademarks mentioned in the documentation belong to their respective owners. FindRomCover is not affiliated with any game publisher or platform holder.

Related pages

• Contributing
• FAQ