Licence

Northlight is free software, released under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (AGPLv3). “Free” here means freedom as well as price. Everyone who has Northlight has the right to:

• use it for any purpose;
• study how it works and change it to suit them;
• share it with anyone;
• share their changes, so others benefit too.

The licence protects those rights for everyone who comes after you. That’s why we chose it: Northlight can’t be taken private, and nobody can receive it with fewer freedoms than you have.

In practice

• You can use Northlight for anything, including commercial music, without paying. The licence covers the software, not what you make with it. Your songs, recordings and projects are yours.
• Anyone who receives the application is entitled to its complete source code under the same licence.
• If you distribute a changed version, or run one as a service others use over a network, you share your changes under the same licence.
• The plugins Northlight hosts are separate programs and keep their own licences.
• Contributors keep the copyright in their work and license it under the AGPLv3, like everyone else.

Third-party code

Northlight is built on third-party code under compatible licences, including JUCE, the Steinberg ASIO and VST3 SDKs, CLAP and Signalsmith Stretch. The full notices are in the repository’s THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

VST is a registered trademark and ASIO a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.