Shadowfetch Linux

Licensing & source

Shadowfetch Linux is free software, assembled from Debian, KDE and other upstream projects with a small Shadowfetch layer on top. Every part keeps its own license, and the corresponding source is published.

What Shadowfetch Linux is built from

Almost everything on the system comes straight from upstream free and open-source projects and is distributed under their own licenses. None of it is relicensed by Shadowfetch; each package carries its upstream copyright and license text in/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright.

Debian base system and archive: GPL, LGPL, MIT, BSD, Apache-2.0 and other DFSG-free licenses, per package
Linux kernel: GPL-2.0
KDE Plasma 6, Frameworks and KDE apps: GPL-2.0/3.0 and LGPL-2.1/3.0
Calamares installer: GPL-3.0-or-later
systemd, PipeWire, Mesa, NetworkManager, GRUB, Plymouth, SDDM: GPL, LGPL, MIT and other permissive licenses

Shadowfetch’s own components

The parts Shadowfetch writes and maintains — the KDE look-and-feel and themes, the Welcome assistant, the default configuration, the creative and desktop metapackages, and this website’s meta — are offered under theGPL-3.0-or-later license.

The Shadowfetch name, wordmark and emblem are trademarks of Shadowfetch. The trademarks themselves are not licensed for reuse, but the code, colour schemes and configuration that make up the branding packages areGPL-3.0-or-later like the rest.

Written offer for corresponding source

For every binary Shadowfetch distributes, the complete corresponding source code is made available under the same license terms, for at least three years. It is published in the main/source component of the signed Shadowfetch APT repository, alongside the binaries — no request or fee required.

Enable the source component and fetch the source for any package:

echo "deb-src [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/shadowfetch.gpg] https://www.shadowfetch.com/linux/apt/ umbra main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/shadowfetch.list
sudo apt update
apt-get source shadowfetch-welcome

You can also browse the source index directly, or read and clone the project.

Source component (main/source)Project page

For a licensing question, or a source request the repository does not cover, emailsupport@shadowfetch.comor open an issue onthe issue tracker.

Debian is a registered trademark of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Shadowfetch Linux is an independent derivative and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Debian project.