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whisper.cpp LICENSE file
ggml-org, GitHub, 2026
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- What it is
- The license file in the whisper.cpp repository, the open-source C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper speech model that many Mac transcription apps build on.
- How much weight it carries
- The license text itself, read directly from the repository's default branch. It says what the code may be used for, not whether any particular app built on it is open source.
Facts taken from this source
- The license file in the whisper.cpp repository is the MIT License, which allows free use, copying and modification of the code.
“MIT License Copyright (c) 2023-2026 The ggml authors” (LICENSE, first lines)