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License

Main Source Code

(contents of app/ directory)

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2012 - 2026 Samuel Aaron and contributors (sam@sonic-pi.net)

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 NONINFRINGEMENT. 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.

GPL Compliance

As Sonic Pi links with and contains GPLv3-licensed software, distributors of Sonic Pi GUI binaries must comply with the terms of the GPL.

Samples

(contents of etc/samples/)

All the bundled samples are individually licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. They have been obtained from freesound.org and links to their sources can be found in the file etc/samples/README.md

Two exceptions: the samples prefixed with arovane_ have been kindly donated by Uwe Zahn (Arovane), and those prefixed with tbd_ by The Black Dog — both also under a CC0 license. Thanks Uwe and TBD!

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Wavetables

(contents of etc/wavetables/

All the bundled wavetable samples are individually licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. They have been obtained from the Adventure Kid site.

Font

The font used in the GUI is Hack released under the Hack Open Font License v2.0

Icons

Some GUI icons are from Tabler Icons released under the MIT License (Copyright (c) 2020-2026 Paweł Kuna). See app/gui/widgets/Tabler-Icons-License.md.

Docs, Tutorial and Examples

(contents of etc/doc/ and etc/examples directories)

All the examples (in etc/examples) and contents of the doc directory including the articles and the tutorial are copyright by Sam Aaron unless a specific author is stated with the comment # coded by ... in which case the copyright is associated with that author (2015) and the content is released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Synth Designs

(contents of etc/synthdefs/ directory)

The bundled synth designs (synthdefs) are licensed under the MIT License with the following exceptions, which are licensed under the GNU General Public License v3:

The sc808 drum synths are adapted from Yoshinosuke Horiuchi's SC-808, released free of charge with the author's published permission for free use; the original carries no formal licence text. The adaptations retain attribution in their source headers.

The Overtone designs under designs/overtone/ are licensed under the Eclipse Public License 2.0 (see the LICENSE file in that directory).

See the source files for links to the original designs.

Bundled Software

The following is a list of the software included in Sonic Pi with their relevant licenses:

Standalone bundled programs (separate processes, not linked to the GUI)

Compiled into or shipped with the GUI

Compiled into SuperSonic

Included Ruby Libraries for Spider Language Server

(contents of app/server/ruby/vendor/)