Open source & licenses
M8Thor includes the open source software and the fonts below. Each entry links to its full license text.
rsync 3.4.4
- License
- GNU General Public License v3
- Copyright
- © 1996–2026 Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison and others
- Used for
- Copying your card during backup and restore
- Web
- rsync.samba.org
M8Thor ships rsync unchanged, as a separate program that it starts for backups and restores. You may copy, change and share rsync under the terms of the GPL v3. The license texts and the complete source also ship inside the app: Settings › About › Licenses & Source.
- GPL v3 license text
- NOTICE.txt
- Source code · rsync-3.4.4.tar.gz · 1.2 MB SHA-256 bd88cf82fa653da32314fb229136407c5c90f80d1758d8f4b091767877d8fa96
- Source code · xxHash-0.8.3.tar.gz · 1.1 MB SHA-256 aae608dfe8213dfd05d909a57718ef82f30722c392344583d3f39050c7f29a80
- Build script for the included binary
Compiled into rsync
- popt · MIT · © 1998 Red Hat Software
- zlib · zlib License · © 1995–2013 Jean-loup Gailly, Mark Adler
- xxHash 0.8.3 · BSD 2-Clause · © 2012–2021 Yann Collet
Sparkle 2.9.1
- License
- MIT
- Copyright
- © 2006–2017 Andy Matuschak, Elgato Systems, Kornel Lesiński, Mayur Pawashe, C.W. Betts, Petroules Corporation, Big Nerd Ranch
- Used for
- Checking for and installing app updates
- Web
- sparkle-project.org
Included in Sparkle
- bsdiff / bspatch · BSD · © 2003–2005 Colin Percival
- sais-lite · MIT · © 2008–2010 Yuta Mori
- Ed25519 · zlib License · © 2015 Orson Peters
- SUSignatureVerifier · BSD · © 2011 Mark Hamlin
libopenmpt 0.8.9
- License
- BSD 3-Clause
- Copyright
- © 2004–2026 OpenMPT Project Developers and Contributors, © 1997–2003 Olivier Lapicque
- Used for
- Reading tracker modules (MOD, XM, S3M, IT, Future Composer and the rest of its formats) in M8Thor's helper m8thor-render
- Web
- lib.openmpt.org
M8Thor's PowerPacker unpacker is ported from libopenmpt's ContainerPP20.cpp.
m8thor-sid
- License
- GNU General Public License v2 or later
- Copyright
- © 2026 M8Thor contributors
- Used for
- Playing and rendering C64 SID tunes; runs as its own program
Compiled into m8thor-sid
- libsidplayfp 3.1.1 · GPL v2 or later · © 2000 Simon White, © 2007–2010 Antti Lankila, © 2010–2026 Leandro Nini and others. Its SIDLite engine is based on cRSID by Mihály Horváth (Hermit). · github.com/libsidplayfp
- libresidfp 1.2.2 (reSIDfp) · GPL v2 or later · Dag Lem, Antti S. Lankila, Ken Händel, Leandro Nini
- hashlib (part of libsidplayfp) · MIT · © 2025 Cra3z · MIT license text
m8thor-tfmx
- License
- GNU General Public License v2 or later
- Copyright
- © 2026 M8Thor contributors
- Used for
- Playing and rendering Amiga TFMX and Jochen Hippel tunes; runs as its own program
Compiled into m8thor-tfmx
- libtfmxaudiodecoder 1.0.14 · GPL v2 or later · © Michael Schwendt · github.com/mschwendt/libtfmxaudiodecoder
ancient 2.3.0
- License
- BSD 2-Clause
- Copyright
- © 2017–2025 Teemu Suutari
- Used for
- Reading Amiga DMS disk images in M8Thor's helper m8thor-unpack
- Web
- github.com/temisu/ancient
Included in ancient
- bzip2 (its tables) · bzip2 License (BSD-style) · © 1996–2010 Julian R Seward
lhasa 0.6.0
- License
- ISC
- Copyright
- © 2011–2025 Simon Howard
- Used for
- Reading LHA and LZH archives in M8Thor's helper m8thor-unpack
- Web
- github.com/fragglet/lhasa
M8 display fonts
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Author
- Trash80 (Timothy Lamb): stealth57 and related FontStructions; the large font after sm0hm's m8xl-ess
- Used for
- Drawing the M8's screen in REMOTE
- Web
- fontstruct.com/…/stealth57
M8Thor ships these bitmap fonts as they are in m8c, only converted from BMP to PNG; no glyph was changed. They are licensed separately under CC BY-SA 3.0 and are not covered by M8Thor's own terms. You may use, share and adapt them under that license.
Taken from
- m8c · MIT · © 2021 Jonne Kokkonen · github.com/laamaa/m8c · MIT license text
Sources and license texts in the app
The license texts, notices and complete sources of these parts ship inside the app, in Contents/Resources/ThirdParty: rsync and xxHash, libsidplayfp, libresidfp and m8thor-sid, libtfmxaudiodecoder and m8thor-tfmx, with the build scripts, and the M8 display fonts with their notice and m8c's license. In the app: Settings › About › Open source › Licenses & Source.
Trademarks
Dirtywave and M8 are trademarks of Dirtywave. M8Thor is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Dirtywave.