Licensing and dependencies
Dogubako is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or
later (see LICENSE). AGPL was chosen so that the hosted,
multi-user service remains free software for its users: anyone offering a
modified Dogubako over a network must provide its source. It is also compatible
with the GPL-licensed engines Dogubako integrates (Ghostscript is AGPL,
Poppler and some FFmpeg builds are GPL).
Rust crates
Section titled “Rust crates”All 765 third-party crates in Cargo.lock carry OSI-approved licenses
compatible with AGPL-3.0: predominantly MIT and/or Apache-2.0, plus BSD-2/3,
ISC, Zlib, Unicode-3.0, MPL-2.0, BSL-1.0, CC0, Unlicense and CDLA-Permissive-2.0
(Mozilla root certificate data via webpki-roots). No crate is unlicensed. To
regenerate the inventory:
cargo metadata --format-version 1 --locked | jq -r '.packages[] | "\(.name) \(.version) \(.license)"'Notable components bundled into the binary:
| Component | License | Used for |
|---|---|---|
image, imageproc, resvg |
MIT/Apache-2.0 | Native image processing, SVG rendering |
oxipng |
MIT | Lossless PNG optimization |
libwebp (via libwebp-sys) |
BSD-3-Clause | WebP encoding |
rustface (SeetaFace engine) |
BSD-2-Clause | Face detection |
rxing, rqrr, qrcode |
Apache-2.0 / MIT | Barcodes and QR codes |
lopdf |
MIT | Native PDF editing |
WebRTC VAD (via webrtc-vad) |
BSD-3-Clause (WebRTC) / MIT | Voice activity detection |
calamine, rust_xlsxwriter |
MIT / MIT-Apache | Spreadsheets |
hickory-resolver, rustls, x509-parser |
MIT/Apache-2.0/ISC | DNS, TLS inspection |
sysinfo, starship-battery |
MIT / ISC | System and battery info |
jaq, jsonschema, serde_json_path |
MIT | Data querying/validation |
axum, tokio, rusqlite (bundled SQLite: public domain) |
MIT | Server |
| Tauri 2 | MIT/Apache-2.0 | Desktop shell |
| React, lucide-react | MIT / ISC | Web UI |
Bundled data files:
| File | License |
|---|---|
crates/tools-image/assets/DejaVuSans.ttf |
Bitstream Vera / DejaVu (permissive; DejaVuSans-LICENSE.txt alongside) |
crates/tools-text/data/eff_large_wordlist.txt |
EFF Large Wordlist, CC BY 3.0 US (attribution shown with generated passphrases) |
External programs
Section titled “External programs”Dogubako invokes these as separate programs; it never links them, so shipping them alongside the AGPL app is aggregation. How they reach you:
- macOS app: FFmpeg, qpdf, Poppler, ExifTool and 7-Zip ship inside the
app; ImageMagick, Tesseract, Ghostscript, Real-ESRGAN, Pandoc and
whisper.cpp download on demand. All are pinned builds (from Homebrew’s
bottles, Real-ESRGAN’s release, and whisper.cpp built from a tag), and each
engine folder carries
licenses/<component>/with the license text of the engine and every library it links. - Docker image: pinned Debian packages, whose license terms and source availability follow Debian’s.
- CLI and native servers: whatever you install (
dogubako depsshows the commands).
Every release attaches engine-sources-<version>.tar with the corresponding
source of each GPL, LGPL, AGPL and MPL engine component at its pinned version,
and the app includes THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md (generated from the engine lock,
the Rust dependency tree and the web UI’s npm packages, with a written source
offer) next to its LICENSE.
| Program | License | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| FFmpeg / FFprobe | LGPL-2.1+ or GPL-2.0+ (build-dependent) | Debian’s build enables GPL components; combined distribution in the Docker image is under GPL-compatible terms with source available from Debian |
| ImageMagick | ImageMagick License (Apache-2.0 style) | |
| ExifTool | Artistic / GPL-1.0+ | |
| qpdf | Apache-2.0 | |
| Poppler utils | GPL-2.0+ | |
| Ghostscript | AGPL-3.0 | Compatible with Dogubako’s AGPL |
| Tesseract | Apache-2.0 | Language data: Apache-2.0 |
| whisper.cpp | MIT | On demand in the macOS app; in the Docker image by default |
| Piper | MIT (GPL-3.0 via espeak-ng) | In the Docker image by default. Voices have individual licenses (shown in the model list) |
| rembg | MIT | Downloads U²-Net models (Apache-2.0) itself |
| Real-ESRGAN ncnn | BSD-3-Clause | |
| LibreOffice | MPL-2.0 | |
| Pandoc | GPL-2.0+ | |
| 7-Zip | LGPL-2.1+ with unRAR restriction | RAR extraction code is freeware, not open source; RAR creation is never used |
| bubblewrap | LGPL-2.0+ | Optional sandbox |
Known engine issues
Section titled “Known engine issues”- FFmpeg 9
anlmdn: the non-local-means audio denoiser crashes intermittently (SIGSEGV/SIGTRAP in 30–60 % of runs with Homebrew FFmpeg 9.0.2 on Apple-silicon macOS, with or without SIMD).audio.denoiserefusesmethod: anlmdnon FFmpeg ≥ 9 with anunsupportederror and points to the FFT method (afftdn), which was not affected. Other FFmpeg versions run it. - Homebrew’s FFmpeg is built without libvorbis, libass (
subtitlesfilter), drawtext and animated-WebP encoding; tools that need them reportunsupportedinstead of failing obscurely.
Optional models (downloaded on request, never bundled)
Section titled “Optional models (downloaded on request, never bundled)”| Model | License | Verification |
|---|---|---|
| Whisper ggml (tiny … large-v3-turbo, tinydiarize) | MIT (OpenAI Whisper weights) | SHA-1 published by whisper.cpp |
| Silero VAD (ggml) | MIT | No upstream checksum; local SHA-256 recorded |
| SeetaFace frontal detector | BSD-2-Clause | SHA-256 pinned |
| Piper voices | Per voice (CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA …) | No upstream checksum; local SHA-256 recorded |
This documentation site
Section titled “This documentation site”The site is built with Astro and Starlight (MIT), with Pagefind search (MIT). It uses the Instrument Sans and DM Mono typefaces (SIL Open Font License 1.1), the same ones the app bundles.
Trademarks
Section titled “Trademarks”Dogubako does not use proprietary branding, source code or visual assets from other products. Its logo is original.