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Open-source licences

GUIDE PLAYER is built on the work of the open-source community. The components we use and their licences are listed below.

Last updated: 28 September 2026

Android TV app

The GUIDE PLAYER Android TV app is based on the open-source OwnTV project, Copyright © Ashiq Hasan and contributors, licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Full licence text: gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.

Source code: Under the GPLv3, we provide the complete corresponding source code of every version of the Android TV app we distribute to anyone who asks. Send your request to [email protected] with the app version (Settings → About). This offer is valid for at least three years after we last distribute that version.

Android phone app

The GUIDE PLAYER phone app uses the application framework of the open-source Another IPTV Player project, under the following MIT licence:

MIT License

Copyright 2025 Another IPTV Player

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.

Other components

ComponentLicenceUsed in
mpv / libmpvLGPL-2.1-or-laterTV and phone
FFmpegLGPL-2.1-or-laterTV and phone
AndroidX Media3 (ExoPlayer)Apache 2.0TV
AndroidX, Jetpack Compose, KotlinApache 2.0TV and phone
OkHttp, Coil, Koin, ZXingApache 2.0TV and phone
media-kitMITPhone
android-youtube-playerMITTV
juniversalchardetMPL 1.1 / GPL / LGPL (tri-licence)TV

Source code for the LGPL libraries is available from their projects (mpv.io, ffmpeg.org); on request we also provide the exact versions we use. Apache 2.0 text: apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

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