Skynat Live is our own software. It also carries some open-source programs written by others — here is each one, its licence, and where to get its source code.
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Skynat Live is the proprietary software of Skynat Holdings (Pty) Ltd. It is licensed to you, not sold, under our Terms of service.
The desktop app also contains separate programs written by others, which it runs alongside its own code. Each is open-source software that comes to you under its own licence, listed below. Our Terms do not apply to those programs and take nothing away from the rights their licences give you — including the right to copy, change and share them on their licences' terms.
The Hybrid beta includes a separate program, the Skynat engine, which does the video work in its own process; the app talks to it over a local pipe. The engine is built from OBS Studio's libobs (OBS Studio 31.0.4, unmodified) and is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or (at your option) any later version. The current release, Skynat Live 5.1.5, does not include it.
Its complete source code is published at https://github.com/skynatlabs/skynat-engine. The licence text is in the COPYING file of that repository (https://github.com/skynatlabs/skynat-engine/blob/HEAD/COPYING), which is also installed with the engine, and at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html.
The engine includes libraries from the OBS Project's prebuilt dependencies, each under its own licence — among them FFmpeg 7 (built with its GPL parts), x264 (GPL 2.0 or later), mbedTLS (Apache 2.0), SRT (MPL 2.0) and librist (BSD 2-clause). Their licence texts are installed with the engine, in its licenses folder.
"OBS" and "OBS Studio" are names of the OBS Project. The Skynat engine is built with OBS Studio's engine; it is not made or endorsed by the OBS Project.
Skynat Live runs FFmpeg, a separate program, for recording, clips and some streaming. It comes from the ffmpeg-static package (version 5.3.0), which supplies a ready-built FFmpeg for each kind of computer.
Windows: FFmpeg 6.1.1, the "essentials" build by gyan.dev (https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/), configured with --enable-gpl and --enable-version3 — so it is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.
Mac with Apple Silicon: FFmpeg 6.0, built by osxexperts.net (https://osxexperts.net/), configured with --enable-gpl and --enable-version3 — the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.
Intel Macs (both Intel downloads): FFmpeg 6.1.1, built by evermeet.cx (https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/), with GPL components such as x264 and x265 and version-3 components such as opencore-amr — the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.
FFmpeg on its own is mostly under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1 or later; these builds include its GPL parts, so the GPL applies to them (text: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html). Each copy comes with its licence file beside it in the app (ffmpeg.LICENSE on a Mac, ffmpeg.exe.LICENSE on Windows). Source code for these versions: https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-6.1.1.tar.xz and https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-6.0.tar.xz; each builder's page above describes how it was built. The written offer below covers FFmpeg too.
The Hybrid beta (6.0.0-beta.2) on a Mac — Apple Silicon, Intel and older Intel Macs alike — carries FFmpeg 7.1.1 built by Skynat Holdings (Pty) Ltd from FFmpeg's own source (https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-7.1.1.tar.xz) with x264 (https://code.videolan.org/videolan/x264, stable branch), configured with --enable-gpl and --enable-version3 and nothing non-free — the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. The exact configure line and where the source is are in the app's licences (Help › About › Open-source licences). On Windows the beta uses the gyan.dev FFmpeg 6.1.1 build above.
For at least three years from the date you received your copy of Skynat Live or of the Hybrid beta — and for as long as we offer that version, if that is longer — Skynat Holdings (Pty) Ltd will give anyone who has a copy the complete corresponding source code of the GPL-licensed programs in it (the Skynat engine and FFmpeg), in machine-readable form: by download, or on a physical medium for no more than our cost of making and sending it.
Ask by email at support@skynat.cloud, by phone on +27 76 616 8470, or by post to Skynat Holdings (Pty) Ltd, 1 Elsecar Street, Kya Sands, Randburg, South Africa. Tell us which version of the app you have, and for which computer.
The desktop app is built on Electron, under the MIT licence (https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/LICENSE). Electron includes Chromium, under a BSD-style licence together with the notices of Chromium's own third-party components (https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:LICENSE), and Node.js, under the MIT licence (https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/LICENSE). The Apple Silicon, Intel and Windows downloads use Electron 44; the download for older Intel Macs uses Electron 37.
On Windows the app includes softcam (https://github.com/tshino/softcam), under the MIT licence, which provides the "Skynat Live Camera" that other programs see as a webcam.
The app's own code is built with open-source libraries under permissive licences, such as React and three.js (both MIT). They are compiled into the app rather than run as separate programs, and they remain under their own licences.
Last updated October 2026. Questions about this page: support@skynat.cloud. See also Terms, Privacy, Refunds and Open-source software.
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