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The Forge web app includes open-source software written by others. This page lists the libraries it uses to convert iPhone photos, with the licence each one is released under and where to get its source code.

When you add an iPhone photo (HEIC or HEIF) to a walk in the Forge web app, your browser downloads the libraries below from Forge and uses them to convert the photo to a JPEG on your own device before it is uploaded. Forge uses each library as published, at the version listed.

heic-to 1.5.2

Converts iPhone photos (HEIC and HEIF) in the browser. It contains libheif and libde265, listed below, compiled to run in a web page.

Licence: GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3, or (at your option) any later version
Copyright: Author: Hopper Gee. The package's licence file names no separate copyright holder.
Source code: heic-to 1.5.2 source (GitHub, tag v1.5.2); The exact package Forge builds from (npm, heic-to-1.5.2.tgz)

heic-to is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. heic-to is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

libheif 1.22.2

Reads the HEIF file format that iPhone photos are saved in.

Licence: GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3, or (at your option) any later version
Copyright: Copyright (c) 2017-2020 Struktur AG; Copyright (c) 2017-2026 Dirk Farin
Source code: libheif 1.22.2 source (GitHub, release v1.22.2)

libheif is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. libheif is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

libde265 1.0.16

Decodes the HEVC (H.265) picture data inside an iPhone photo.

Licence: GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3, or (at your option) any later version
Copyright: Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Struktur AG; Copyright (c) 2013-2024 Dirk Farin
Source code: libde265 1.0.16 source (GitHub, release v1.0.16)

libde265 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. libde265 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

Licence texts

The full text of each licence, as published by the Free Software Foundation. Version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, supplemented by additional permissions, so both texts are given here.

Getting the source code

Each library's complete source code, at the exact version Forge ships, is published by its authors at the addresses listed under it above. The heic-to package Forge builds from is the npm package linked there, and the libheif and libde265 code inside it was built from the versions listed above. Their licence lets you copy, change and share them on its terms.

Questions

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