VaultRAG

Third-Party Notices

Last updated: 2026-08-30

VaultRAG uses third-party libraries subject to their own licenses. The following are key dependencies and their licenses. This list is not exhaustive. Full license texts are available in the respective project repositories.

Application Libraries

  • .NET Runtime / BCL and Microsoft.Extensions.* - MIT license
  • Avalonia UI - MIT license
  • CommunityToolkit.Mvvm - MIT license
  • ReactiveUI - MIT license
  • Microsoft.Data.Sqlite (with SQLite, public domain) - MIT license
  • PdfPig / PdfPig.Rendering.Skia - Apache License 2.0
  • PdfLexer - MIT license
  • SkiaSharp / HarfBuzzSharp - MIT license
  • CSharpMath.SkiaSharp - MIT license
  • ScottPlot - MIT license
  • Markdig - BSD 2-Clause license
  • Markdown.Avalonia - MIT license
  • DiffPlex - Apache License 2.0
  • NPOI - Apache License 2.0
  • DocumentFormat.OpenXml - MIT license
  • MSGReader - MIT license
  • Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream - MIT license
  • BouncyCastle - MIT license
  • MimeKit - MIT license
  • HtmlAgilityPack - MIT license
  • Serilog (and Serilog sinks/extensions) - Apache License 2.0
  • SharpHook - MIT license (bundles libuiohook, LGPL-3.0)
  • Tavily client, if included - MIT license

Local AI Runtimes

Used for on-device chat, summarization, and embeddings:

  • llama.cpp (llama-server) - MIT license
  • ONNX Runtime (Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime) - MIT license
  • ONNX Runtime GenAI (Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntimeGenAI) - MIT license
  • Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers - MIT license

Fonts and Icons

  • Inter font family (via Avalonia.Fonts.Inter) - SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Material Icons - Apache License 2.0
  • Lucide icons (adapted stroke path data) - ISC license
  • Phosphor Icons (adapted fill path data) - MIT license
  • IconPacks.Avalonia FileIcons pack - MIT license

External Tools VaultRAG Can Integrate With

Installed and licensed separately; not part of, or distributed with, VaultRAG. These tools run under your own accounts and subscriptions; VaultRAG only launches and talks to the versions you have installed.

  • git - GPL-2.0, by the Git project
  • Claude Code - a product of Anthropic, under Anthropic's terms
  • Codex CLI - a product of OpenAI, under OpenAI's terms
  • OpenCode - by the OpenCode project (SST), under its own license and terms
  • Goose - by Block, under its own license and terms (Apache License 2.0); the Goose name and logo are trademarks of their owners
  • Hermes Agent - by Nous Research, under its own license and terms
  • GitHub and the GitHub CLI (gh) - services and software of GitHub, Inc., under GitHub's terms
  • Tailscale - software and services of Tailscale Inc., under Tailscale's terms; used only by the optional remote control feature, on your own account

Theme Acknowledgements

Many of VaultRAG's interface themes are adaptations of beloved community color schemes. The palettes remain the work of their creators, and we are grateful to them:

  • Andromeda - Eliver Lara
  • Aura - Dalton Menezes
  • Ayu (Dark and Light) - Ike Ku and the ayu-theme project
  • Catppuccin (Mocha and Latte) - the Catppuccin community
  • City Lights - Yummygum
  • Cobalt2 - Wes Bos
  • Dracula - Zeno Rocha and the Dracula Theme community
  • Embark - the embark-theme project
  • Everforest (Dark and Light) - Sainnhe Park
  • Flexoki (Dark and Light) - Steph Ango
  • GitHub - GitHub (Primer)
  • Gruvbox (Dark and Light) - Pavel Pertsev (morhetz)
  • Horizon - Jonathan Olaleye
  • Kanagawa (including Dragon and Lotus) - rebelot
  • Material Palenight - the Material Theme project
  • Melange (Dark and Light) - savq
  • Monokai Pro (inspired by the Monokai palette) - Wimer Hazenberg (monokai)
  • Moonlight - atomiks
  • Nightfox - EdenEast
  • Night Owl - Sarah Drasner
  • Nord (including Nord Light) - Sven Greb (arcticicestudio)
  • One Dark - the Atom project (GitHub)
  • Oxocarbon - IBM and nyoom-engineering
  • Poimandres - the Poimandres collective
  • Rose Pine (including Moon and Dawn) - the Rose Pine collective
  • Shades of Purple - Ahmad Awais
  • Solarized (Dark and Light, and the Operator adaptation) - Ethan Schoonover
  • SynthWave '84 - Robb Owen
  • Tokyo Night (including Light) - enkia; Neovim port by folke
  • Vesper - Rauno Freiberg
  • Vitesse Dark - Anthony Fu
  • Zenburn - Jani Nurminen

All other themes are original VaultRAG designs.

Downloaded Local AI Models

Local AI models you download (for example, Gemma, Qwen, and EmbeddingGemma) are not part of VaultRAG and are licensed separately by their respective owners under their own model licenses, terms of use, and acceptable-use policies. Optional GPU acceleration components, such as the NVIDIA CUDA runtime, are provided by their vendors under separate terms. You are responsible for reviewing and complying with those terms.

Usage of these components is governed by their respective licenses. No ownership of third-party code is claimed. Copyright remains with the original authors.

See also the Terms & EULA for Local AI, coding agent, git hosting, and third-party component terms.