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Brewser is an independent homebrew project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, licensed by, or approved by Nintendo. "Nintendo Switch" and related marks are trademarks of Nintendo. Brewser does not include, distribute, or provide Nintendo software, firmware, games, ROMs, encryption keys, copyrighted assets, exploits, or tools for bypassing technological protection measures. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws and third-party terms.
Open-source attributions
Brewser's runtime is built from production-grade open-source components. We're grateful to the projects below and reproduce their license notices as an obligation, not an afterthought.
The table below is an accurate component-and-license inventory. Full license texts for all bundled components are available on request via brewser.io.
Engine & core
| Component | Role | License |
|---|---|---|
| nx.js (Brewser fork) | Base runtime | MIT |
| V8 | JavaScript engine | BSD-3-Clause |
| Skia (+ skcms/skshaper/skunicode) | 2D rendering | BSD-3-Clause |
| Mesa / Nouveau, libdrm | OpenGL ES driver stack (bundled) | MIT |
| Abseil | C++ support library | Apache-2.0 |
| libnx | Switch system library | ISC |
Media, imaging & networking
| Component | Role | License |
|---|---|---|
| FFmpeg (avcodec/avformat/swscale/swresample/avutil) | Audio/video decoding | LGPL-2.1+ (or GPL-2.0+) † |
| dav1d | AV1 decoding | BSD-2-Clause |
| Mbed TLS | TLS | Apache-2.0 |
| FreeType | Font rasterisation | FTL / GPLv2 |
| HarfBuzz | Text shaping | MIT |
| libjpeg-turbo | JPEG | IJG / BSD-3-Clause / zlib |
| libpng | PNG | libpng License |
| libwebp | WebP | BSD-3-Clause |
| zlib, zstd, bzip2 | Compression | zlib / BSD-3-Clause / bzip2 |
| ada | URL parsing | Apache-2.0 OR MIT |
| libuv | Async I/O | MIT |
Fonts, data & bundled libraries
| Component | Role | License |
|---|---|---|
| Geist Mono | UI font | SIL OFL-1.1 |
| Twemoji | Emoji artwork | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Mozilla CA bundle | TLS root certificates | MPL-2.0 |
| css-tree, mdn-data, source-map-js | CSS tooling | MIT / CC0-1.0 / BSD-3-Clause |
| web-streams-polyfill, @xmldom/xmldom, and other bundled npm libraries | Runtime polyfills | MIT (and, for color-space, the Unlicense) |
| Nayuki QR generator (clean-room port) | QR codes | MIT |
† FFmpeg's exact license (LGPL-2.1+ vs GPL-2.0+) depends on the build flags used for the Switch
port; this is being confirmed (see OPEN_QUESTIONS.md §C1).
Native system libraries provided by the devkitPro toolchain (newlib, libstdc++/libgcc) are used under their respective licenses (the GCC runtime library carries the GCC Runtime Library Exception).
Note: Brewser's JavaScript runs on V8. Earlier prototypes used QuickJS and wasm3; these were removed in favour of V8 and are not part of the shipped runtime.
Related
- Architecture — where these components fit.
- Privacy & Your Data.