Licenses & Credits
minNotes is free software under the GNU GPL-3.0-or-later. It ships with the third-party material below. The full license texts live in LICENSES/ in the source repository and inside the app (Contents/Resources/Licenses on macOS, the Licenses folder beside the executable on Windows).
| Component | Role | License |
|---|---|---|
| Qt 6 | application framework | LGPL-3.0 |
| FFmpeg | video decoding | LGPL-2.1+ |
| KSyntaxHighlighting | code block colouring | MIT |
| ink-stroke-modeler | stroke smoothing | Apache-2.0 |
| SoundTouch | constant-pitch review speeds | LGPL-2.1 |
| miniz | package (.mnpkg) zip backend | MIT |
| stb_image | Radiance HDR previews | MIT |
| psd_sdk | Photoshop PSD / PSB previews | BSD-2-Clause |
| SQLite | note storage | public domain |
| Sparkle | updates (macOS) | MIT |
| WinSparkle | updates (Windows installer builds up to 2.0.5) | MIT |
| Phosphor Icons | icons | MIT |
| Geist / Geist Mono | the app’s typefaces: chrome, body and headings (Geist), code (Geist Mono) | SIL OFL 1.1 |
| Aspekta | typeface, bundled (the previous document sans) | SIL OFL 1.1 |
| PT Serif | typeface, bundled (the previous body serif) | SIL OFL 1.1 |
| Inter | typeface, bundled (the previous chrome sans) | SIL OFL 1.1 |
| JetBrains Mono | typeface, bundled (the previous code mono) | SIL OFL 1.1 |
| Lora | typeface, bundled (an alternative serif) | SIL OFL 1.1 |
| Hunspell 1.7.3 | spelling engine | LGPL-2.1 (of its MPL 1.1 / GPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.1 tri-license) |
| SCOWL word lists (2026.02.25) | the US + UK dictionary | SCOWL notice (below) |
| LanguageTool English rules (v6.8) | grammar rule data | LGPL-2.1+ |
Spelling and grammar
Hunspell — Copyright (C) 2002–2022 Németh László and the Hunspell contributors. Compiled into minNotes as a static library; minNotes as a whole is distributed under the GPL, which the LGPL permits. hunspell.github.io
SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) — the dictionary is the union of SCOWL’s en_US and en_GB-ise Hunspell dictionaries. Its notice, reproduced as the license requires:
Copyright 2000–2026 by Kevin Atkinson
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell any part of SCOWLv2, or word lists created from it, is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the above copyright notice and this notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this database for any purpose. It is provided “as is” without express or implied warranty.
The affix file is a heavily modified version of the original english.aff file released as part of Geoff Kuenning’s Ispell, Copyright 1993 Geoff Kuenning, covered by his BSD license.
SCOWL draws on 12dicts and ENABLE2K (public domain, with special credit to Alan Beale) and on data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. wordlist.aspell.net
LanguageTool — the grammar checker interprets the subset of LanguageTool’s English grammar.xml that needs no part-of-speech tagger, about 1,700 rules. Copyright (C) 2001–2026 Daniel Naber, Marcin Miłkowski and the LanguageTool contributors, LGPL-2.1-or-later. Rule data only: no LanguageTool code is part of minNotes. languagetool.org