Fuse Documentation and Licensing
This document lists third-party software and licenses used in Fuse to comply with App Store Review Guidelines.

1. Apple Frameworks (macOS SDK)
Fuse uses the following Apple system frameworks: AppKit/Cocoa, SwiftUI, Combine, AVFoundation, AVKit, Accelerate, Speech, NaturalLanguage, UniformTypeIdentifiers, Foundation, and ObjectiveC.runtime. These are provided under Apple™'s Software License Agreement. No separate redistribution license is required beyond App Store distribution.

License: Proprietary (Apple SDK Terms).

2. whisper.cpp (MIT License)
Repository: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

MIT License (Full Text):
Copyright (c) 2022-present Georgi Gerganov

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 NON-INFRINGEMENT. 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.


3. Whisper Model Weights (MIT License)
Original models: https://github.com/openai/whisper

MIT License (Full Text):
Copyright (c) 2022 OpenAI

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 NON-INFRINGEMENT. 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.

3.1. WhisperKit (Apache License 2.0)
Repository: https://github.com/argmaxinc/WhisperKit

Apache License 2.0 (Full Text):
Copyright (c) 2023-present Argmax Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.


4. SQLite (Public Domain)
SQLite may be present transitively via macOS frameworks. SQLite is in the public domain (http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html). No attribution is required, but acknowledgment is appreciated.

5. Notes
- FFmpeg is not used in Fuse. Audio extraction and processing are performed with AVFoundation.
- All bundled third-party components are compatible with App Store distribution.

Last updated: September 2025
