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Licences and attribution

Playarr Server and Playarr

Playarr Server's and Playarr's own source code is released under the MIT licence.

Copyright (c) 2026 Thomas McFarlane

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.

The full text is in the repository.

FFmpeg

This is an important distinction and worth stating plainly: Playarr's own source is MIT-licensed, but the published container images additionally bundle FFmpeg, which is licensed under the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or later. The image as a whole is therefore distributed subject to that licence.

This software uses libraries from the FFmpeg project under the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or later. FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard, originator of the FFmpeg project. Playarr is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or the owner of FFmpeg.

FFmpeg runs on the server as a separate process. It is not embedded in any Playarr client application.

Corresponding source. Anyone distributing a Playarr Server container image must make the exact corresponding FFmpeg source, and the build configuration used, available alongside the binaries. This page is where those links belong, per published image tag. They are not yet published here. If you need them before they are, pleaseopen an issue.

TMDB

TMDB

This website uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

The first notice applies to this website. The second applies to Playarr Server and the Playarr apps. Metadata identifiers and artwork reaching a Playarr Server installation may originate with TMDB, by way of the library-management tools it reads from or the metadata sources the operator configures. TMDB is not a partner, sponsor or endorser of this project.

Codecs and patents

Media codecs may be covered by patents in some jurisdictions. Nothing on this site, and no licence granted by this project, conveys any patent rights. Deploying this software commercially, or distributing builds of it, may require a separate patent licence depending on where you are and what you are doing. No claim is made that operating Playarr Server is royalty-free.

Other third-party software

Playarr Server and the Playarr apps include the open-source and vendor components below. Each remains under its own licence, and each project's own licence text applies. Exact versions are pinned in the dependency manifests and lock files in therepository, which are authoritative.

Playarr Server (Rust)

The server is built from Rust crates. The project's licence policy accepts only these licence families: MIT, Apache-2.0 (including with the LLVM exception), BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, ISC, Unicode-3.0, Zlib, CC0-1.0, MPL-2.0, NCSA, CDLA-Permissive-2.0 and BSL-1.0. Most are permissive. MPL-2.0 (used by option-ext, for example) is file-level copyleft: changes to the MPL-licensed files themselves must be shared under the MPL. The direct dependencies include:

  • Runtime and web: tokio, tokio-util, futures, async-trait, axum, axum-server, tower, tower-http, reqwest, rustls, rustls-acme, rustls-pki-types, instant-acme, x509-parser
  • Data and API: sqlx, serde, serde_json, uuid, chrono, chrono-tz, toml, utoipa, utoipa-axum
  • Authentication and cryptography: jsonwebtoken, argon2, ed25519-dalek, chacha20poly1305, sha2, hmac, hex, base64, rand_core, ipnet
  • Backup and storage: age, tar, flate2, zip, fs4, tempfile
  • Caching and search: moka, dashmap, strsim, unicode-normalization, fastembed (and the ONNX Runtime it uses)
  • Images: image
  • Command line, errors and telemetry: clap, anyhow, thiserror, tracing, tracing-subscriber, tracing-appender, tracing-opentelemetry, opentelemetry, opentelemetry_sdk, opentelemetry-otlp, libc

Playarr for Android and Android TV

  • AndroidX (Core, Lifecycle, Activity, Navigation, DataStore, Room, WorkManager, Hilt integration, Core Splashscreen, TV Foundation and TV Material), Jetpack Compose and Material 3 (Apache-2.0)
  • AndroidX Media3 / ExoPlayer (Apache-2.0)
  • Dagger Hilt (Apache-2.0)
  • Retrofit, the kotlinx.serialization converter for Retrofit, and OkHttp (Apache-2.0)
  • kotlinx.serialization and kotlinx.coroutines (Apache-2.0)
  • Coil (Apache-2.0)
  • ZXing core (Apache-2.0)
  • Firebase Cloud Messaging (Apache-2.0)
  • The Google Cast framework and the Play In-App Updates library, supplied by Google under Google's own terms

Playarr for iPhone and iPad

  • Google Cast SDK for iOS, supplied by Google under Google's own terms

Fonts (Android, iOS and web apps)

  • Nunito Sans and JetBrains Mono, under the SIL Open Font Licence 1.1. Copyright 2016 The Nunito Sans Project Authors (https://github.com/Fonthausen/NunitoSans); copyright 2020 The JetBrains Mono Project Authors (https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono). These notices apply to the Android, iOS and web apps.

Embedding model

  • The server downloads the all-MiniLM-L6-v2 sentence-embedding model from Hugging Face on first use (model card, ONNX port of sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2). Both model cards state the licence as Apache-2.0 (verified from the cards). The model is not bundled in the image.

Playarr web, admin and television web apps (TypeScript)

  • React and React DOM (MIT)
  • React Router (MIT)
  • Shaka Player (Apache-2.0)
  • openapi-fetch (MIT)
  • qrcode (MIT)
  • jpeg-js (BSD-3-Clause)
  • Firebase JavaScript SDK, used for browser notifications (Apache-2.0)
  • Google Cast sender SDK for the web, loaded from Google at run time under Google's own terms
  • Scalar API Reference, used in the admin app (MIT)

This website (Astro)

The direct production dependencies of this site. A CI check keeps this list in step withpackage.json.

  • Astro (MIT)
  • @astrojs/mdx (MIT)
  • @astrojs/sitemap (MIT)
  • sharp (Apache-2.0), used at build time for image processing; its prebuilt libvips binaries are LGPL-3.0-or-later

Container images

  • FFmpeg, installed in the server image from the Debian distribution (GPL-2.0-or-later, see above)
  • Debian base image packages, including ca-certificates, curl and tini, each under its own licence

The Xbox mark on the clients pages is the “xbox” brand icon from Font Awesome Free, used under CC BY 4.0. Other platform marks are from Simple Icons (CC0-1.0).

Trademarks and affiliation

Playarr is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Bazarr, Prowlarr, Readarr, Tdarr, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Apple, Google, Microsoft (Xbox), Amazon (Fire TV), Huawei (HarmonyOS), LG, Samsung, Hisense, Roku, or TMDB. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners, and are used here only to describe interoperability.