Open-source notices

Last updated: October 14, 2026

Cutwave Studio is built on excellent open-source software. We are grateful to its authors. This page lists what is included and under which licences.

FFmpeg

Cutwave includes the FFmpeg and FFprobe programs for video processing. The included build is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3). Cutwave runs FFmpeg as a separate program. FFmpeg's source code is available at ffmpeg.org, and the build we ship comes from ffmpeg.martin-riedl.de, which publishes its build scripts and sources. You may also request the corresponding source code from us by email at . The FFmpeg license text is at gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html. FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.

whisper.cpp and the Whisper model

Automatic captions use whisper.cpp (MIT licence) with the "base.en" Whisper speech-recognition model released by OpenAI (MIT licence). Both run entirely on your computer.

Other components

The app is built with Electron, Next.js and React (all MIT licence), plus the Node.js runtime and other open-source libraries under permissive licences. Their licence texts are included with the application.