TECHNOLOGIES & LICENSES

Technologies and Open Source

Stock Footage Tool is built with a number of open-source projects, libraries, and SDKs. This page lists the major technologies that support the product and the licenses currently associated with them.

PROVISIONAL LIST

This is a provisional development list. Before commercial release, the actual distribution will be audited again—including bundled Python packages, DLLs, VLC-related components, ExifTool, AI models, and SDKs—and reconciled with THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES and other notices shipped with the product.

Application foundation

Technologies used for the desktop UI, media processing, metadata handling, and secure credential storage.

Python Python Software Foundation License Version 2

Application runtime

Qt for Python / PySide6 LGPLv3 / GPLv3 / Commercial (depending on selected terms)

Windows GUI

The selected license path and redistribution obligations will be confirmed against the final distribution before release.

OpenCV Apache License 2.0 (OpenCV 4.5.0 and later)

Video/image analysis and quality checks

VideoLAN / libVLC GNU LGPL v2.1 or later (libVLC)

Video preview and playback

All bundled VLC-related components will be checked again in the final pre-release license audit.

ExifTool Same terms as Perl (Artistic License or GPL)

EXIF / IPTC / XMP metadata reading and writing

keyring MIT License

Stores API keys and credentials using the OS credential store

Local AI

Major technologies used for local generation on supported PCs without an external AI API.

Ollama MIT License

Local AI runtime

Google Gemma 4 Apache License 2.0

Local AI model

Cloud AI SDKs

Official Python SDKs used to connect to cloud AI services with the user's own API configuration.

OpenAI Python SDK Apache License 2.0

OpenAI API integration

Google Gen AI Python SDK Apache License 2.0

Google Gemini API integration

Anthropic Python SDK MIT License

Anthropic Claude API integration