// licenses

Licenses & Attribution

Ice Commander License

Copyright © 2026 Ice Commander Project.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Open Source Components

Ice Commander is built on open source. Notable components it ships with:

// desktop application (rust · gtk4)

  • Rustlanguage & standard libraryMIT / Apache-2.0
  • GTK4UI toolkit (gtk4-rs bindings — MIT)LGPL-2.1-or-later
  • Libadwaitaadaptive GNOME widgetsLGPL-2.1-or-later
  • GLib / GIO / GDK-Pixbufcore platform librariesLGPL-2.1-or-later
  • Tokioasync runtimeMIT
  • Actix Webembedded web server (web interface & API)MIT / Apache-2.0
  • SerdeserializationMIT / Apache-2.0
  • reqwestHTTP clientMIT / Apache-2.0
  • rust-i18ntranslations — 15 languagesMIT
  • sysinfosystem & process informationMIT

// media, documents & archives

  • GStreamermedia pipeline & thumbnailsLGPL-2.1-or-later
  • libmpv (mpv)built-in media playbackLGPL-2.1-or-later
  • OpenH264H.264 codec by CiscoBSD-2-Clause
  • PDFiumPDF rendering (pdfium-render bindings — MIT / Apache-2.0)BSD-style
  • imageimage decodingMIT / Apache-2.0
  • rodioaudio playbackMIT / Apache-2.0
  • kamadak-exifEXIF metadataBSD-2-Clause
  • zip · tar · flate2archives that open like foldersMIT / Apache-2.0

// networking, protocols & crypto

  • webrtc-rsdirect P2P links between devicesMIT / Apache-2.0
  • snowNoise Protocol — encrypted P2P transportMIT / Apache-2.0
  • ed25519-daleksignatures & device identityBSD-3-Clause
  • argon2 · sha2 · hmac (RustCrypto)password hashing & digestsMIT / Apache-2.0
  • ssh2 / libssh2sftp:// panelsMIT / Apache-2.0 · BSD-3-Clause
  • suppaftpftp:// panelsMIT / Apache-2.0
  • dav-serverdav:// WebDAVApache-2.0
  • mdns-sdLAN peer discoveryMIT / Apache-2.0

// terminal

  • portable-ptyPTY layer from the WezTerm projectMIT
  • vt100terminal emulation in the native panelsMIT
  • xterm.jsterminal in the web interfaceMIT

// web interface & website

  • React / React DOMweb interface and this websiteMIT
  • React RouterMIT
  • Tailwind CSSMIT
  • TypeScriptApache-2.0
  • Vite · webpackbundlersMIT
  • axiosMIT
  • crypto-jsMIT
  • ssr_rs / V8server-side rendering of this siteMIT · BSD-3-Clause

The full dependency graph additionally includes Rust crates and npm packages distributed under the MIT and/or Apache-2.0 licenses. LGPL components (GTK4, Libadwaita, GLib, GStreamer, libmpv) are dynamically linked; their sources are available from the respective upstream projects.