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Third-party licences

Snipsel stands on the work of open-source makers. Here is what we use, under which licence, with the full text of each licence.

onnxruntime-web

Runs the automatic cut-out in your browser.

MIT · © Microsoft Corporation

Source code · Licence text 1

MODNet

The cut-out file for people.

Apache-2.0 · © Zhanghan Ke (ZHKKKe); ONNX export by Xenova

Source code · Licence text 1

U²-Net (U²-Netp)

The cut-out file for objects and animals.

Apache-2.0 · © Xuebin Qin; ONNX export from rembg

Source code · Licence text 1

@jsquash/avif

Writes AVIF in browsers that cannot do it themselves.

Apache-2.0 · © Jamie Sinclair and the Squoosh authors (Google)

Source code · Licence text 1

libavif, libaom (in @jsquash/avif)

The AVIF encoding itself, inside @jsquash/avif.

BSD-2-Clause, AOM Patent License 1.0 · © Joe Drago, Alliance for Open Media

Source code · Licence text 1 · Licence text 2 · Licence text 3

heic2any

Opens iPhone photos (HEIC) in browsers that cannot do it themselves.

MIT · © Alex Corvi

Source code · Licence text 1

libheif, libde265 (in heic2any)

The HEIC reading itself, inside heic2any.

Source code · Licence text 1 · Licence text 2

Tabler Icons

The icons.

Source code · Licence text 1

Titillium Web, Varta, Roboto Mono

The fonts of the site.

Source code · Licence text 1 · Licence text 2 · Licence text 3

Source code of the LGPL parts

libheif and libde265 are under the LGPL-3.0. They sit unchanged inside heic2any and load as a separate file, only when a HEIC photo arrives. The source code is here:

Updated on 21 October 2026.