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The majority of KiCad's source code is developed and distributed under the terms
of the GPLv3 or later. However, It does include some third-party code licensed
under AGPLv3 or later as well as sections licensed under the BOOST license v1.0,
the ISC license and the MIT license.

These licenses are compatible, but a combined works as is will be governed under
the terms of the AGPLv3 (or later). This includes any binary distribution of the
KiCad EDA suite by the KiCad project or any third party, e.g. Linux distributor.

You are free to use the *sources* under the terms of their respective licenses.

Licensed under AGPLv3 (or later):
- TTL [https://www.sintef.no/projectweb/geometry-toolkits/ttl/], sources in include/ttl/*
Licensed under BOOSTv1:
- libcontext [https://github.com/boostorg/context], sources in common/system/libcontext.cpp
Licensed under ISC:
- portions of code in include/geometry/polygon_triangulation.h
Licensed under MIT:
- tinyspline_lib in dxflib_qcad/tinyspline_lib
Licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0:
- All the demo files provided in demos/*
Licensed under GPLv3 (or later):
- All remaining code not listed above