License and credits
ReelForge is open source. The source code is licensed under the Apache License 2.0: you may use, modify and redistribute it, including commercially, as long as you keep the license and the notices in LICENSE and NOTICE. The license also grants a patent license from every contributor.
The documentation, the example scripts and episodes, and the sample text in the bundled themes and packs are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0); see the content license for the attribution line.
The videos you create are yours, for any use. Neither license places conditions on your recordings, your scripts or your rendered output.
Third-party components
ReelForge is built on open-source software and data, used under their own licenses (full texts in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md):
| Component | License |
|---|---|
| Bundled fonts (Cairo, Inter, Readex Pro, …) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Playwright | Apache-2.0 |
| zod, commander, ws | MIT |
| yaml, zod-to-json-schema | ISC |
| Icons (Lucide) | ISC |
RNNoise voice-cleanup model (sh.rnnn) | Not subject to copyright (author's notice) |
| This site: VitePress | MIT |
FFmpeg and Chromium are installed separately and are not distributed with ReelForge.
The optional speech models and their runtime (Whisper weights and Silero VAD, both MIT; the model runtime packages under Apache-2.0, MIT and, for the libvips image library, LGPL-3.0-or-later) are downloaded once by reelforge align --setup into your user cache folder. They are not part of the ReelForge download.
Contributing and support
Contributions are welcome under the Apache License 2.0; see Contributing. For questions, bug reports and feature requests, see SUPPORT.md. Please include your operating system, the output of reelforge doctor --json and the command you ran with --verbose.