LEGAL / ATTRIBUTION

Third-Party Software

Tenet and qbditrace are built with carefully selected third-party components. We acknowledge their authors and preserve the license terms that make their use possible.

LICENSE SCOPE

Component licenses stay with their components.

Tenet includes third-party software made available under permissive licenses such as Apache License 2.0, MIT, BSD, and zlib. These licenses apply only to their respective components and do not grant rights to Tenet’s proprietary code.

Complete notices and license texts are included with every Tenet distribution and remain available without an internet connection.

MAJOR COMPONENTS

Core technology attributions

This overview highlights major third-party components across the backend and desktop app. The distribution contains the authoritative, version-specific inventory, including transitive desktop dependencies.

QBDI

Dynamic binary instrumentation engine

Apache-2.0

LLVM

Instruction and code-generation infrastructure

Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception

Triton

Symbolic execution and semantic analysis

Apache-2.0

Z3

Satisfiability modulo theories solver

MIT

YARA

Rule-based memory pattern matching

BSD-3-Clause

RocksDB

Persistent trace indexes

Apache-2.0

Capstone

Instruction disassembly

BSD-3-Clause

oneTBB

Parallel task scheduling

Apache-2.0

Tauri

Cross-platform desktop application shell

Apache-2.0 OR MIT

FlatBuffers

Binary protocol between the desktop app and backend

Apache-2.0

zstd / LZ4

Trace and index compression

BSD

OpenSSL

Cryptographic support used by packaged dependencies

Apache-2.0

IN EVERY DOWNLOAD

Authoritative notices ship inside the app.

On macOS, open About Tenet and choose “Third-Party Software…” to view the bundled notice. The same material is stored under Tenet.app/Contents/Resources/licenses/.