3rd party components and licenses

This software would not be possible without a number of other components. These components are included with the BitPim binary distribution and are under licenses and warranties separate than that of BitPim. Redistribution of these components is compatible with the BitPim license.

• Python programming environment (License)

• wxPython graphical toolkit for Python. wxPython in turn uses wxWidgets (License)

• pySerial Python serial communications package. (License)

• Python-DSV Python library for working with delimiter separated files (such as CSV) (License)

• libusb Libusb is used for interacting with USB on Linux and Mac. On Windows the derived project libusb-win32 is used. The portion shipped with BitPim is under the LGPL

• Paramiko SSH implementation (LGPL license) which uses pycrypto (License) for the actual cryptography.

• APSW (License) Python wrapper for SQLite (Public Domain)

• usb.ids data file from the Linux-USB project is used to map USB vendor and product names to strings. (No license is listed).

• pngtopnm, ppmquant, and pnmtopng executables from the netpbm project are used. The binaries, located in the helpers directory, are taken from netpbm builds for the Gallery project and have no source code changes. (Licensed under a combination of the Artistic, GNU General Public License, and MIT licenses)

• Various recipes from the ASPN Python Cookbook which are under the BSD License

• (On Windows) win32all Windows Python extensions (License)

• (On Windows) ffmpeg Audio/Video tool. The ffmpeg executable is included in the helpers directory, and has no source changes. LGPL license

• (On Windows) InnoSetup Windows installer (License)

• (On Windows) py2exe program to convert scripts to standalone executables (License)

• (On Linux) cx_Freeze packaging tool (License)

• (On the web) Destroy Drops Javascript Tree used to show the help contents on the web copy of the online help.

• (On the web) Icons from awstats are used for the different operating systems.

• Icons from Tango Desktop Project are used for some of the toolbar icons.

• Some icons used in BitPim were created using GIMP.

Additionally a number of other tools are used, but not shipped with BitPim

• The online help in BitPim is authored using HelpBlocks. They generously donated a copy of the software for this purpose.

• The project is managed on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitpim/

• The SWIG tool is used to generate Python wrappers for native C/C++ code

• The GNU Compiler Collection is used to compile native code on Windows (MinGW), Linux and Mac

BitPim Online Help             built 27 December 2006