License

Stego-Lab is released under the MIT License (SPDX identifier: MIT). The canonical, legally binding text below is in English. The MIT License has no version number — it is a single, unmodified standard text.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Christian Raith

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.

Note (German, non-binding)

The MIT License is a short, permissive open-source license. It permits use, copying, modification, merging, publishing, distribution, sublicensing, and selling of the software — under the sole condition that the above copyright notice and license text are included in all copies or substantial portions of the software. The software is provided "as is" without any warranty; liability of the authors is excluded.

This German summary is for explanatory purposes only. The binding text is the English original above. Further information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License.

The full license is also available in the repository root as LICENSE.

What the MIT License covers — and what it does not

The MIT License applies to the source code of Stego-Lab. It does not cover the project's brand and editorial assets, which remain under separate rights:

The MIT grant lets you use, modify, and redistribute the code freely. It does not grant permission to use the "Stego-Lab" name, logo, or manual to brand a derivative product.