License and Credits

License and Credits

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Licensing at a glance

Part	License	File
Source code	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later	LICENSE
Name, logo, artwork	All rights reserved; limited redistribution license for unmodified releases	LICENSE-ASSETS
Third-party attributions	—	NOTICE

Every source file carries an SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later header.

Versions up to and including 2.7.6 were released under the MIT license and remain available under it. From 2.7.7 on, the code is AGPL.

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Why the AGPL

TinyPPI serves a web dashboard over the network. Under the plain GPL, someone could run a modified TinyPPI as a network service without ever publishing their changes. Section 13 of the AGPL closes that gap: anyone who modifies TinyPPI and lets others interact with it over a network must offer those users the source of the modified version — the same obligation a modified copy handed out as a file already carries.

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Forking

Forking the code is expressly welcome. The conditions that come with it:

1. Keep the copyright notices and the SPDX headers in the files you keep.
2. Publish the complete source of your modified version under the AGPL — including to anyone who reaches its web dashboard over a network.
3. State prominently that you changed the files, and when.
4. Give your fork its own name and its own artwork (see below).
5. Keep the NOTICE file with the third-party attributions.

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Name, logo and artwork

The AGPL covers the code, not the branding. The name TinyPPI, icon.png, fanart.png, and the original artwork under resources/skins/Default/media/ (background gradients, speaker-layout graphics, splash corners, interface elements) and resources/web/icons/ are:

Copyright © 2026 U3knOwn. All rights reserved.

You may copy, host and redistribute them as part of an unmodified release of TinyPPI — for example when mirroring the add-on in a Kodi repository.

You may not, without written permission, use the name TinyPPI (or a confusingly similar one) for a modified version, fork, repository or distribution; use the logo or artwork in a modified version; or suggest that the copyright holder endorses your version. This is the same arrangement Mozilla applies to Firefox: a rebuild needs its own name.

For permission beyond that, open an issue on the repository.

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Trademarks

The format logos under resources/skins/Default/media/codecs/ and the Dolby Vision marks are not TinyPPI's property and are not licensed by it:

• Dolby, Dolby Vision, Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos and TrueHD are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
• DTS, DTS-HD and DTS:X are trademarks of DTS, Inc. / Xperi.
• IMAX and IMAX Enhanced are trademarks of IMAX Corporation.

They are used only to identify the audio and video format a stream carries (nominative use). No affiliation with or endorsement by their owners is claimed.

The rating marks under resources/web/ratings/ (and the same marks in the TinyPPI app) are not TinyPPI's either:

• IMDb, TMDB, Trakt, TheTVDB, Letterboxd, Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes (and its Popcornmeter) and MyAnimeList wear those services' own logos. No licence to them is held or granted; their copyright and trademarks stay with their owners.
• The age ratings (FSK, MPA, TV Parental Guidelines, BBFC), Metacritic's users, Roger Ebert, the IMDb Top 250 and the awards (Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Primetime Emmys) are simplified marks drawn for TinyPPI; their lettering is Inter (SIL Open Font License 1.1) turned into outlines.

The awards list (resources/data/awards.json) is from TheTVDB, read from its API by tools/gen_awards.py — or, without a key, from the awards list of TheMovieDb Helper (plugin.video.themoviedb.helper by jurialmunkey, GPL-3.0-or-later), which is built from TheTVDB's — and cut to the four awards shown.

All of them are used only to name the source of a rating or an age rating (nominative use); no affiliation with or endorsement by their owners is claimed. The full list of trademark holders is in LICENSE-ASSETS.

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Credits

TinyPPI builds on the work of these projects — many thanks to their authors and contributors.

script.module.sidedata

script.module.sidedata by matthane — GPL-2.0-or-later.

Parsers for the raw Dolby Vision and HDR payloads CoreELEC 22 publishes through Player.Process(video.sidedata): the Dolby Vision RPU and dvcC/dvvC configuration record, the HDR10+ ST 2094-40 metadata and the static MDCV / CLL SEIs. TinyPPI reads every Dolby Vision / HDR value it shows through this module, so the overlay follows the stream frame by frame instead of probing the file. It is a separate add-on, declared as a dependency, not bundled.

dovi_tool / libdovi

dovi_tool by quietvoid performs the RPU parsing used by script.module.sidedata.

FFmpeg

libavutil performs the HDR10+ parsing used by script.module.sidedata.

Kodi and CoreELEC

TinyPPI is an add-on for Kodi (GPL-2.0-or-later) and uses its Python API and JSON-RPC interface. It is built for CoreELEC, whose Amlogic integration and side-data InfoLabel make the readings possible. The native vs10.* actions TinyPPI prefers come from SamuriHL's CoreELEC Kodi work.