Open-source licenses

Last updated: June 2026

Bundled in the app

whisper.cpp — on-device speech-to-text engine. MIT License. © 2023–2024 The ggml authors. github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp
ggml — tensor library used by whisper.cpp. MIT License. © 2023–2024 The ggml authors. github.com/ggml-org/ggml
Flutter & Dart — application framework and runtime. BSD-3-Clause License. © Google and the Flutter authors. flutter/flutter LICENSE

Downloaded on first run

OpenAI Whisper — the speech-recognition model weights (ggml-small.bin), fetched on first launch. MIT License. © 2022 OpenAI. github.com/openai/whisper

Used on your device, installed separately

BlackHole — virtual audio driver by Existential Audio. Not distributed with JIAA; you install it yourself when setting up audio. GPL-3.0 License. github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

MIT License

The following license applies to whisper.cpp, ggml, and the OpenAI Whisper model, each with its own copyright holder listed above:

MIT License

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.

Other components

Flutter, Dart, and the open-source packages JIAA depends on are distributed under their respective permissive licenses (BSD, MIT, Apache-2.0). The full, per-package list — including every bundled dependency — is available inside the app under Help (?) → Open-source licenses.

Questions

For licensing or attribution questions, contact support@jiaa.codes.