Legal
Third-party licences
Last updated: 5 September 2026Deutsche Fassung
In the app
| Component | Rights holder | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| WhisperKit 1.1.0 github.com/argmaxinc/WhisperKit | argmax, inc. (2024) | MIT |
| Swift Argument Parser 1.8.2 github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser | Apple Inc. and the Swift project authors | Apache-2.0 |
The speech recognition models
The models are not part of the download. The app fetches them during first setup from the public repository argmaxinc/whisperkit-coreml at Hugging Face; that is the only network access needed for it.
| Model | Rights holder | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| whisperkit-coreml — the Core ML builds huggingface.co/argmaxinc/whisperkit-coreml | argmax, inc. | MIT |
| Whisper — the underlying models github.com/openai/whisper | OpenAI (2022) | MIT |
On this website
The website uses Next.js and React (MIT) and Tailwind CSS (MIT). It loads nothing from third-party servers at runtime — no fonts, no scripts, no images. What the browser fetches comes from witnessmac.com.
The MIT licence text
For every component marked “MIT” above, with the copyright notice named beside it:
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 Apache-2.0 licence
The full text is at apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. The component is used unmodified; there are no changes to it that section 4 of the licence would require us to mark.
Reports
If a component is missing here or a notice is wrong, write to hallo@witnessmac.com. It gets corrected, not discussed.