2ksbox stands on the work of many people who gave their code away. Every
machine runs on QEMU, the Voodoo 2 is 86Box’s, the music comes from
emulators of the original sound chips, and the CRT look is the libretro community’s. Thank you, all of you.
Every component the app ships, and its licence, is listed in
THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.
The app carries a copy of that file and the full licence texts. To read
them, open About 2ksbox and click Licences. They are also files:
| System |
Folder |
| Windows |
doc\licenses in the app’s folder |
| macOS |
Contents/share/doc/2ksbox/licenses inside 2ksbox.app (Show Package Contents) |
| Linux |
share/doc/2ksbox/licenses under the install prefix (/app in the Flatpak) |
Emulation
| Project | What it does for 2ksbox | Licence |
|---|
| QEMU | The emulator every machine runs on | GPL-2.0 |
| qemu-3dfx | OpenGL pass-through for the guest | GPL-2.0 |
| 86Box | The Voodoo 2 | GPL-2.0 |
| SeaBIOS | The PC BIOS | LGPL-3.0 |
| EDK II | UEFI firmware for Windows 11 | BSD-2-Clause-Patent |
| libtpms | The TPM for Windows 11 | BSD-3-Clause and TCG |
| virtio-win | Drivers for Windows 11 | BSD-3-Clause |
| libslirp | Guest networking | BSD-3-Clause |
| GLib | QEMU's support library | LGPL-2.1 |
Graphics
| Project | What it does for 2ksbox | Licence |
|---|
| DXVK | Direct3D 9 on Vulkan | Zlib |
| Wine | Direct3D on hosts without Vulkan 1.3 | LGPL-2.1 |
| Mesa | Vulkan on macOS (KosmicKrisp) | MIT |
| wgpu | The player's renderer | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| librashader | Runs the CRT shaders | MPL-2.0 OR GPL-3.0 |
| libretro slang-shaders | The CRT shaders | Various |
Sound
| Project | What it does for 2ksbox | Licence |
|---|
| Nuked-OPL3 | The OPL3 FM chip | LGPL-2.1 |
| nuked-opl3-rs | Nuked-OPL3 in Rust | LGPL-2.1 |
| moont | The Roland MT-32 | LGPL-2.1 |
| Munt | The MT-32 emulator moont ports | LGPL-2.1 |
| RustySynth | SoundFont music | MIT |
| TimGM6mb | The General MIDI sound bank | GPL-2.0 |
| cpal | Audio output | Apache-2.0 |
Other
| Project | What it does for 2ksbox | Licence |
|---|
| mitsuami | The launcher's and player's windows | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| gilrs | Game controllers | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| UIDE | The DOS CD-ROM driver | Free with source |
