Third-party licences
Symmetry Explorer, Symmetry Mechanical and Symmetry Domer use the open-source libraries listed on this page. Their authors keep the copyright; the notices and licences below are distributed with the programs (in the Help\licenses folder) as those licences require. A plain-text summary, THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt, is also next to each program.
Summary
| Component | Version | Used by | Licence | Full text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenTK (OpenGL bindings, mathematics, windowing) | 4.8.2 | Explorer, Mechanical, Domer | MIT; OpenEXR (BSD) for the half-precision type | opentk.txt |
| OpenTK GLControl (OpenGL control for Windows Forms) | 4.0.0-pre.8 | Explorer, Mechanical, Domer | MIT | opentk-glcontrol.txt |
GLFW (native library, glfw3.dll) | 3.3.8 | Explorer, Mechanical, Domer | zlib/libpng | glfw.txt |
| QuestPDF (PDF reports) | 2026.9.1 | Mechanical, Domer | QuestPDF Community License | questpdf.txt |
| Libraries and font included in QuestPDF | Mechanical, Domer | see below | licenses/questpdf/ |
OpenTK
The Open Toolkit: opentk.net, github.com/opentk/opentk. Packages OpenTK.Core, OpenTK.Graphics, OpenTK.Mathematics, OpenTK.Windowing.Common, OpenTK.Windowing.Desktop and OpenTK.Windowing.GraphicsLibraryFramework, version 4.8.2.
MIT License Copyright (c) 2006-2019 Stefanos Apostolopoulos for the Open Toolkit project. 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.
OpenTK.Half offers Half-to-Single and Single-to-Half conversions based on OpenEXR source code, which is covered by the following license:
Copyright (c) 2002, Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucas Digital Ltd. LLC. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * Neither the name of Industrial Light & Magic nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
OpenTK GLControl
Package OpenTK.WinForms, version 4.0.0-pre.8: github.com/opentk/GLControl. The package states Copyright (c) 2024 Team OpenTK; its licence file reads:
MIT License Copyright (c) 2006-2019 Stefanos Apostolopoulos for the Open Toolkit project. 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.
GLFW
The native GLFW library (package OpenTK.redist.glfw 3.3.8.39): www.glfw.org.
Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Marcus Geelnard Copyright (c) 2006-2019 Camilla Löwy This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
QuestPDF
QuestPDF 2026.9.1, Copyright Marcin Ziąbek and QuestPDF contributors: www.questpdf.com. Symmetry Mechanical and Symmetry Domer use it to write their PDF reports, under the QuestPDF Community License, which allows it to be redistributed as a compiled component of these programs. The complete licence (licence selection guide, Community License and Professional / Enterprise License) is in licenses/questpdf.txt.
Inside QuestPDF
QuestPDF includes the following open-source components (in its native libraries QuestPdfSkia.dll and qpdf.dll, and its built-in font). They remain under their own licences, whose full texts are in the folder licenses/questpdf/.
| Component | Copyright | Licence | Full text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skia | Copyright (c) 2011 Google Inc. | BSD 3-clause | skia.txt |
| HarfBuzz | Copyright © 2010-2022 Google, Inc., and the other holders listed in the licence file | "Old MIT" | harfbuzz.txt |
| FreeType | Portions of this software are copyright (c) The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org). All rights reserved. | FreeType Project License | freetype.txt |
| qpdf | the qpdf project (qpdf.sourceforge.io) | Apache 2.0 | qpdf.txt |
| libjpeg-turbo | Copyright (C) 2009-2023 D. R. Commander; Copyright (C) 2015 Viktor Szathmáry; copyright (C) 1991-2020 Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding. This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. | IJG and BSD 3-clause | libjpeg-turbo.txt |
| libpng | Copyright (c) 1995-2024 The PNG Reference Library Authors, and the other holders listed in the licence file | PNG Reference Library License v2 | libpng.txt |
| libwebp | Copyright (c) 2010, Google Inc. | BSD 3-clause | libwebp.txt |
| Wuffs | the Wuffs project (github.com/google/wuffs) | Apache 2.0 | wuffs.txt |
| zlib | (C) 1995-2024 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler | zlib | zlib.txt |
| Expat | Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper; Copyright (c) 2001-2022 Expat maintainers | MIT | expat.txt |
| libgrapheme | Copyright 2019-2025 Laslo Hunhold | ISC | libgrapheme.txt |
| Lato font | Copyright (c) 2010-2019, Łukasz Dziedzic, with Reserved Font Name Lato | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | lato.txt |
| Emscripten SDK, Ninja (build tools listed by QuestPDF) | Copyright (c) 2018 Emscripten authors; the Ninja project (ninja-build.org) | MIT; Apache 2.0 | emsdk.txt, ninja-build.txt |
.NET
The programs run on Microsoft .NET 10 with Windows Forms, which the user installs separately (.NET Desktop Runtime); the runtime is not distributed with the programs. .NET is open source under the MIT licence: github.com/dotnet/runtime, github.com/dotnet/winforms.