Licences

Takehouse is built on open-source software and openly licensed AI models. This page lists every one of them and its licence. It is generated from the notices that ship inside the app (Help › About), so the two always match.

Takehouse is © 2026 Gain Publications. It includes or uses the following third-party software, fonts and models. Each is used under its own licence, named below. Full licence texts are in each project's distribution.

Engine and models

ACE-Step 1.5 models (planner, generators, VAE): MIT License, the ACE-Step project.
acestep.cpp (the engine, ace-server.exe): MIT License, © 2023-2026 The acestep.cpp authors.
ACE-Step 1.5's genre vocabulary (genres_vocab.txt, used by the Style check): MIT License, Copyright (c) 2026 ACEStep (github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5 at commit ca1e85fe).
ggml (its tensor library, ggml*.dll): MIT License, © 2023-2026 The ggml authors.
whisper.cpp (the section finder, P6a: whisper\whisper-cli.exe, whisper\whisper.dll and its own whisper\ggml*.dll): MIT License, © 2023-2026 The ggml authors.
Whisper large-v3-turbo (the section finder's model, in whisper.cpp's ggml format from huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp): MIT License, © 2022 OpenAI.
LAME 3.100 (the MP3 encoder for Export, lame\libmp3lame.dll with its COPYING and LAME-SOURCE.txt): GNU Library General Public License 2, © the LAME developers. A separate DLL loaded at run time, not linked into Takehouse; built unchanged from lame-3.100.tar.gz (sourceforge.net/projects/lame, SHA-256 ddfe36ca…a1e); the source is offered on request.
llama.cpp (the local lyrics writer, llama\llama-server.exe, llama\llama-server-impl.dll, llama\llama-common.dll, llama\llama.dll, llama\mtmd.dll; it runs on the section finder's whisper\ggml*.dll): MIT License, © 2023-2026 The ggml authors. Built from github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp at 23f83e056d88ddae0d56b01ccc65fa42ab6625f7. It includes cpp-httplib (MIT, © 2017 yhirose), nlohmann/json (MIT, © 2013-2022 Niels Lohmann), miniaudio (public domain / MIT No Attribution, David Reid), stb_image (public domain / MIT, Sean Barrett) and sheredom's subprocess.h (public domain, Neil Henning). The lyrics models it runs are below (downloaded on request), or a GGUF file the user chooses.
Phi-4 (a local lyrics model, phi-4-Q4_K_S.gguf, Microsoft's own GGUF from huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-4-gguf, downloaded from dl.takehouse.net when the user asks): MIT License, © Microsoft Corporation (full text below).
Phi-4-mini-instruct (a local lyrics model, Phi-4-mini-instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf, converted to GGUF and quantized by Gain Publications with llama.cpp from huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct, downloaded from dl.takehouse.net when the user asks): MIT License, © Microsoft Corporation (full text below).
The Tidy add-on for Phi-4-mini-instruct (Phi-4-mini-instruct-Tidy-LoRA-v1-F16.gguf, a LoRA adapter loaded with Phi-4-mini for Tidy only, downloaded from dl.takehouse.net with it): Gain Publications' fine-tune of Phi-4-mini-instruct, trained by Takehouse. It is derived from Phi-4-mini-instruct: MIT License, © Microsoft Corporation (full text below).
cpp-httplib (compiled into the engine): MIT License, © 2017 yhirose.
Qwen3-Embedding (the text encoder): Apache License 2.0, the Qwen team (Alibaba Cloud).
NVIDIA CUDA runtime 12.9.1 (cudart64_12.dll, cublas64_12.dll, cublasLt64_12.dll, beside the app): © NVIDIA Corporation. Redistributed unmodified under the NVIDIA Software License Agreement and CUDA Supplement (Attachment A: the CUDA Runtime and cuBLAS are redistributable), for use as part of Takehouse only and only with NVIDIA GPUs. Obtained from NVIDIA's redistributable archives (developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist, release 12.9.1). Users need only an NVIDIA driver (525 or newer).
Microsoft Visual C++ runtime and OpenMP runtime (vcruntime140*.dll, msvcp140*.dll, vcomp140.dll, beside the app): redistributed under the Microsoft Visual Studio redistributable licence terms.
Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime, Fixed Version 156.0.4314.50 (WebView2\, in the MSIX packages): © Microsoft Corporation. Distributed unmodified with Takehouse under the Microsoft Software License Terms for the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime, obtained from Microsoft's download page; licensed, not sold, for use as part of Takehouse only. It is built on Chromium and other open-source software; their notices are shown by WebView2\msedgewebview2.exe --embedded-browser-webview=show-credits (the runtime's show_third_party_software_licenses.bat). A fixed runtime doesn't update itself: each WebView2 security update comes with a Takehouse update.

Interface

IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono (via @fontsource): SIL Open Font License 1.1, © IBM Corp.
Phosphor Icons (@phosphor-icons/react): MIT License, © Phosphor Icons.
React and React DOM: MIT License, © Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
Symphonia (decodes WAV, MP3, FLAC and AAC / M4A for Import, and checks exported files): Mozilla Public License 2.0, © the Project Symphonia developers. Unmodified; its source is at github.com/pdeljanov/Symphonia.
rfd and tauri-plugin-dialog (the native open and save dialogs): MIT License / MIT License or Apache License 2.0.
keyring (keeps the lyrics writer's service keys in Windows Credential Manager): MIT License or Apache License 2.0, © the keyring-rs contributors.
ed25519-dalek 3.0.0 (checks the model catalog's Ed25519 signature), with curve25519-dalek 5.0.0: BSD 3-Clause License, © the dalek-cryptography authors (Isis Lovecruft, Henry de Valence and others); ed25519 3.0.0 and signature 3.0.0: MIT License or Apache License 2.0, © the RustCrypto developers; fiat-crypto 0.3.0: MIT, Apache 2.0 or BSD 1-Clause, © the fiat-crypto authors. Verification only: signing happens at build time with a key that is never shipped.
Tauri (the app framework, Rust and @tauri-apps/api): MIT License or Apache License 2.0, © Tauri Programme within The Commons Conservancy.

npm packages in the app

OFL-1.1 (2): @fontsource/ibm-plex-mono 5.3.0, @fontsource/ibm-plex-sans 5.3.0
MIT (6): @phosphor-icons/react 2.1.10, js-tokens 4.0.0, loose-envify 1.4.0, react 18.3.1, react-dom 18.3.1, scheduler 0.23.2
Apache-2.0 OR MIT (1): @tauri-apps/api 2.12.3

Build tools only, not shipped: @resvg/resvg-js 2.6.2 (Mozilla Public License 2.0, © the resvg-js authors; renders the icon set from our masters in scripts\build-icons.mjs).

Rust crates compiled into the app

Grouped by licence (as declared by each crate). Build-time tools and procedural macros are not listed.

MIT OR Apache-2.0 (132): anyhow 1.0.104, base64 0.22.1, base64 0.23.1, bitflags 1.3.2, bitflags 2.13.2, block-buffer 0.12.1, bs58 0.5.1, camino 1.2.6, cargo-platform 0.1.9, cfg-if 1.0.5, chacha20 0.10.2, chrono 0.4.45, cookie 0.18.2, core_detect 1.0.0, cpufeatures 0.3.1, crossbeam-channel 0.5.17, crossbeam-utils 0.8.23, crypto-common 0.2.2, defmt 1.1.1, deranged 0.5.9, digest 0.11.3, dirs 7.0.0, dirs-sys 0.5.0, dtoa 1.0.11, dyn-clone 1.0.20, erased-serde 0.4.10, form_urlencoded 1.2.2, futures-channel 0.3.34, futures-core 0.3.34, futures-io 0.3.34, futures-sink 0.3.34, futures-task 0.3.34, futures-util 0.3.34, getrandom 0.2.17, getrandom 0.3.4, getrandom 0.4.3, glob 0.3.4, hashbrown 0.12.3, hashbrown 0.17.1, heck 0.5.0, hex 0.4.3, html5ever 0.39.0, http 1.5.0, httparse 1.10.1, hybrid-array 0.4.15, idna 1.1.0, ipnet 2.12.2, itoa 1.0.18, json-patch 4.2.0, jsonptr 0.7.1, keyboard-types 0.8.3, keyring 4.2.0, keyring-core 1.0.1, lazy_static 1.5.1, libc 0.2.190, lock_api 0.4.14, log 0.4.34, markup5ever 0.39.0, mime 0.3.17, num-complex 0.4.6, num-conv 0.2.2, num-traits 0.2.19, once_cell 1.21.4, parking_lot 0.12.5, parking_lot_core 0.9.12, percent-encoding 2.3.2, powerfmt 0.2.1, proc-macro2 1.0.107, quinn 0.11.12, quinn-proto 0.11.19, quinn-udp 0.5.16, quote 1.0.47, rand 0.10.3, rand_core 0.10.1, rand_pcg 0.10.2, ref-cast 1.0.27, regex 1.13.1, regex-automata 0.4.18, regex-lite 0.1.9, regex-syntax 0.8.11, reqwest 0.12.28, rustls-pki-types 1.15.1, scopeguard 1.2.0, semver 1.0.28, serde 1.0.229, serde-untagged 0.1.9, serde_core 1.0.229, serde_json 1.0.154, serde_spanned 1.1.2, serde_urlencoded 0.7.1, serde_with 3.24.0, serialize-to-javascript 0.1.2, servo_arc 0.4.3, sha2 0.11.1, simdutf8 0.1.5, siphasher 1.0.4, smallvec 1.16.3, socket2 0.6.5, softbuffer 0.4.8, stable_deref_trait 1.2.1, string_cache 0.9.0, tendril 0.5.1, thiserror 2.0.21, time 0.3.55, time-core 0.1.9, tokio-rustls 0.26.6, toml 1.1.8+spec-1.1.0, toml_datetime 1.1.2+spec-1.1.0, toml_parser 1.1.5+spec-1.1.0, toml_writer 1.1.3+spec-1.1.0, tray-icon 0.25.1, typeid 1.0.3, typenum 1.20.1, unicode-segmentation 1.13.3, url 2.5.8, web-time 1.1.0, web_atoms 0.2.6, windows 0.62.2, windows-collections 0.3.2, windows-core 0.62.2, windows-future 0.3.2, windows-link 0.2.1, windows-native-keyring-store 1.1.0, windows-numerics 0.3.1, windows-result 0.4.1, windows-strings 0.5.1, windows-sys 0.60.2, windows-sys 0.61.2, windows-targets 0.53.5, windows-threading 0.2.1, windows-version 0.1.7, windows_x86_64_msvc 0.53.1
MIT (42): bytes 1.12.1, cargo_metadata 0.19.2, cfb 0.14.0, derive_more 2.1.1, dom_query 0.28.0, extended 0.1.0, http-body 1.1.0, http-body-util 0.1.5, http-range 0.1.5, hyper 1.12.0, hyper-util 0.1.21, infer 0.22.0, mio 1.2.4, new_debug_unreachable 1.0.6, open 5.4.5, os_pipe 1.2.3, phf 0.13.1, phf_shared 0.13.1, plist 1.10.1, precomputed-hash 0.1.1, quick-xml 0.42.0, rfd 0.17.2, schemars 0.8.22, schemars 0.9.0, schemars 1.2.3, shared_child 1.1.2, slab 0.4.12, tokio 1.53.3, tokio-util 0.7.20, tower 0.5.3, tower-http 0.6.11, tower-layer 0.3.3, tower-service 0.3.3, tracing 0.1.44, tracing-core 0.1.36, try-lock 0.2.5, urlpattern 0.6.0, want 0.3.2, webview2-com 0.39.1, webview2-com-sys 0.39.1, winnow 1.0.4, zmij 1.0.23
Apache-2.0 OR MIT (27): atomic-waker 1.1.2, bit-set 0.8.0, bit-vec 0.8.0, const-oid 0.10.2, ctor 1.0.13, ed25519 3.0.0, equivalent 1.0.3, fnv 1.0.7, idna_adapter 1.2.2, indexmap 1.9.3, indexmap 2.14.2, muda 0.20.0, pin-project-lite 0.2.17, rustc-hash 2.1.3, signature 3.0.0, tauri 2.12.3, tauri-plugin-dialog 2.8.4, tauri-plugin-fs 2.7.1, tauri-plugin-shell 2.5.0, tauri-runtime 2.12.1, tauri-runtime-wry 2.12.1, tauri-utils 2.10.1, utf8_iter 1.0.4, uuid 1.28.0, window-vibrancy 0.8.1, wry 0.57.0, zeroize 1.9.1
Unicode-3.0 (15): icu_collections 2.3.0, icu_locale_core 2.3.0, icu_normalizer 2.3.0, icu_normalizer_data 2.3.0, icu_properties 2.3.0, icu_properties_data 2.3.0, icu_provider 2.3.1, litemap 0.8.3, potential_utf 0.1.6, tinystr 0.8.4, writeable 0.6.4, yoke 0.8.3, zerofrom 0.1.8, zerotrie 0.2.5, zerovec 0.11.8
Unlicense OR MIT (10): aho-corasick 1.1.5, byteorder 1.5.0, jiff 0.2.38, jiff-core 0.1.1, jiff-tzdb 0.1.9, jiff-tzdb-platform 0.1.3, memchr 2.8.3, same-file 1.0.6, walkdir 2.5.0, winapi-util 0.1.11
MPL-2.0 (14): cssparser 0.37.0, dtoa-short 0.3.5, option-ext 0.2.0, selectors 0.38.0, symphonia 0.6.1, symphonia-bundle-flac 0.6.1, symphonia-bundle-mp3 0.6.1, symphonia-codec-aac 0.6.1, symphonia-codec-pcm 0.6.1, symphonia-common 0.6.1, symphonia-core 0.6.1, symphonia-format-isomp4 0.6.1, symphonia-format-riff 0.6.1, symphonia-metadata 0.6.1
BSD-3-Clause (5): alloc-no-stdlib 3.0.0, alloc-stdlib 0.3.0, curve25519-dalek 5.0.0, ed25519-dalek 3.0.0, subtle 2.6.1
Apache-2.0 OR ISC OR MIT (2): hyper-rustls 0.27.10, rustls 0.23.46
ISC (2): rustls-webpki 0.103.16, untrusted 0.9.0
MIT OR Apache-2.0 OR Zlib (2): lru-slab 0.1.3, raw-window-handle 0.6.2
Apache-2.0 (2): sync_wrapper 1.0.2, tao 0.37.1
Apache-2.0 AND ISC (1): ring 0.17.14
CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (1): webpki-roots 1.0.11
Zlib OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT (2): bytemuck 1.25.2, tinyvec 1.13.3
Apache-2.0 OR BSL-1.0 (1): ryu 1.0.23
CC0-1.0 OR MIT-0 OR Apache-2.0 (1): dunce 1.0.5
Apache-2.0 AND MIT (1): dpi 0.1.2
BSD-3-Clause AND MIT (1): brotli 9.0.0
BSD-3-Clause OR MIT (1): brotli-decompressor 6.0.1
Zlib (1): foldhash 0.2.0
(MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-3.0 (1): unicode-ident 1.0.27
(Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-3-Clause (1): encoding_rs 0.8.42
MIT OR Apache-2.0 OR BSD-1-Clause (1): fiat-crypto 0.3.0

Phi-4 and Phi-4-mini-instruct: the licence

Both models are distributed under this licence (each model repository's LICENSE):

Microsoft.
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