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Who made Open Wallpaper Engine, its licence, and its relationship to Wallpaper Engine.
Important
Open Wallpaper Engine is an independent, open-source macOS app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Wallpaper Engine or its developers, or to Valve. "Wallpaper Engine" is the name of a commercial application sold on Steam (https://www.wallpaperengine.io).
- Neither the repository nor the app contains any of Wallpaper Engine's files. The app takes the files scenes need from the user's own copy of Wallpaper Engine on Steam, or from an existing install the user chooses. See Wallpaper Engine assets.
- The fonts keep their own licences; their licence files come with them.
- Wallpapers belong to their Steam Workshop authors and are not part of this project.
The single place the project credits Wallpaper Engine is ATTRIBUTION.txt.
Open Wallpaper Engine is free software under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0), the same licence as the original project. See LICENSE.
| Who | Role |
|---|---|
| Deepratna Awale | Author and maintainer of this release: the Metal scene renderer and effect pipeline, GLSL→MSL shader translation and caching, the SceneScript runtime, audio-reactive rendering, the Workshop and Downloads overhaul, placement and performance settings, Scene Edit / Export, and the logo redesign |
| Haren Chen | Original creator of Open Wallpaper Engine for Mac: the core app architecture (SwiftUI, video wallpaper playback, the import system, the playlist UI) |
| MrWindDog | Maintainer of the upstream fork: new features and UI refinements |
| Klaus Zhu | The original app logo design (redesigned by Deepratna Awale for macOS 26's Liquid Glass icons) |
| Chen Chia Yang | Scene wallpaper rendering, web wallpaper fixes, Steam Workshop integration, multi-display support, zip import |
| 1ris_W | Chinese translation |
Contributors are also listed in AUTHORS.md and on the app's About page.
- Open Wallpaper Engine for Linux: a PyQt6 GUI for linux-wallpaperengine, with Workshop integration and UI design ported from the macOS version.
Read more (for developers): Contributing
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