Dependency licenses

Although plaso is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, binary builds of plaso include third party code that have been made available under various licenses.

Core dependencies

Dependency | License — | — artifacts | Apache License 2.0 LibYAML and Python-bindings | MIT license Psutil | BSD 3-clause license Python | Python Software Foundation License
Also see: http://docs.python.org/2/license.html Python dateutil | BSD 3-clause license pytz | MIT license pywin32 | Python Software Foundation License
Windows only pyzmq | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 requests | Apache License 2.0 zeromq | GNU Lesser General Public License 3

dfVFS dependencies

Dependency | License — | — dfVFS | Apache License 2.0 Libbde and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libewf and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libqcow and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libsigscan and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libsmdev and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libsmraw and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libvhdi and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libvmdk and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libvshadow and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Pytsk | Apache License 2.0 SleuthKit | The SleuthKit is multi licensed
Common Public License 1.0; applies to most of the code
IBM Public License 1.0; applies to the file system code (tsk/fs, tools/fstools)
GNU General Public License 2; applies to srch_strings which should not be included in a binary build of plaso. talloc | GNU Lesser General Public License 3

Parser dependencies

Dependency | License — | — bencode | BitTorrent Open Source License binplist | Apache License 2.0 construct | MIT license DPKT | BSD 3-clause license Hachoir | GNU General Public License 2
Not integrated in the binary build. Libesedb and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libevt and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libevtx and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libfwsi and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Liblnk and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libmsiecf and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libolecf and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Libregf and Python-bindings | GNU Lesser General Public License 3 Six | MIT license Sqlite | Public domain pefile | BSD 3-clause license Pyparsing | MIT license Pysqlite | zlib/libpng license

Output/Storage dependencies

Dependency | License — | — Pyelasticsearch | BSD 3-clause license XlsxWriter | BSD 2-clause license

Tool dependencies

Dependency | License — | — IPython
PyReadline is considered part of IPython | BSD 3-clause license

Windows packaged version dependencies

Dependency | License — | — PyInstaller | GNU General Public License 2 with an exception for the bootloader, which is the part that is used in plaso binaries.

To do

Dependencies not mentioned explicitly yet:

• zlib (used in libqcow and libewf)
• openssl (used in libqcow and libewf)
• bzip2 (or part of python)
• Visual studio runtime dlls