================================================================================ KUULES SUITE -- THIRD-PARTY LICENCES AND ATTRIBUTION Calm Base Oy ================================================================================ Kuules itself is proprietary software. Copyright (c) 2026 Calm Base Oy. All rights reserved. Kuules(TM) is a trademark of Calm Base Oy. This file lists every third-party component distributed as part of, or compiled into, the Kuules plugins, together with the licence each is used under. It is installed alongside the plugins and is also reachable from the "?" button in the bottom-left corner of every Kuules interface. Nothing in this file is GPL, LGPL or otherwise copyleft. Every component below is under a permissive licence (MIT, BSD or Apache 2.0) or is used under a commercial licence held by Calm Base Oy. Components checked and deliberately NOT used, recorded here so the question does not have to be re-answered later: FFTW -- GPL. Never linked. Kuules uses JUCE's own FFT, with an optional Intel IPP backend (KUULES_USE_IPP_FFT) on Windows and Linux. See cmake/KuulesPlugin.cmake. libmysofa -- BSD. Never linked. SOFA/HDF5 files are read by Kuules' own minimal parser, KuulesCore/include/kuules/HDF5Min.h. Eigen -- MPL2. Never linked. ================================================================================ 1. SADIE II HRTF DATABASE -- University of York -- Apache License 2.0 ================================================================================ Used by: Kuules Monitor (subject D1 / Neumann KU100, embedded as the built-in binaural model). REQUIRED NOTICE: SADIE Database Copyright 2018 The University of York. This product includes data developed at The Audio Lab, University of York, UK (Cal Armstrong, Lewis Thresh, Gavin Kearney) as part of the SADIE Project. Copyright 2018, University of York. 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Thresh, D. Murphy and G. Kearney, "A Perceptual Evaluation of Individual and Non-Individual HRTFs: A Case Study of the SADIE II Database", Applied Sciences, 2018, 8(11), 2029. doi:10.3390/app8112029 ================================================================================ 2. VST 3 SDK -- Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH -- MIT License ================================================================================ Used by: every Kuules plugin, via the copy bundled with JUCE. Kuules is built against VST 3 SDK 3.8.0, which Steinberg released under the MIT License in October 2025. No separate Steinberg licence agreement applies. VST is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, registered in Europe and other countries. 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