Licences and source
CF Gaming is built on other people's work. Here's whose it is, under which licence, and where its source is.
Wine, and its source
CF Gaming's engine is Wine, from CodeWeavers' CrossOver 26.3 source, under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later. Its source is on CodeWeavers' site.
CF Gaming's own changes to it are attached to every release. These are CF Gaming 11.5's:
0001-kernelbase-steamwebhelper-in-process-gpu.patch0002-server-msync-warn-once-on-pool-exhaustion.patch0003-msync-bound-stale-wait-nodes.patch0004-ntdll-dock-names.patch0005-winemac-nodock-programs.patch0006-loader-cfmacgaming-identity.patch0007-windows-user-name.patch0008-crossover-names-out.patch0009-kernelbase-program-arguments.patch0010-mshtml-navigation-error-after-close.patch0011-ntdll-dll-path-first.patch0012-ntdll-program-dll-path.patch0013-mountmgr-udf-logical-volume-label.patch
DirectX on a Mac
- D3DMetal © Apple, under the Game Porting Toolkit licence, which allows non-commercial distribution. CF Gaming is free.
- DXMT, under the MIT licence (© 2023 Feifan He), with LLVM's (Apache 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions) and NVIDIA NVAPI's (MIT).
- Wine's own Direct3D, as part of Wine.
Inside the app
- applesauce, under the GNU General Public License version 3. Its licence and source are inside the app: About applesauce… in Compress Games….
- Sparkle, which CF Gaming updates itself with, under the MIT licence: Help › Sparkle Licence.
- GStreamer, SDL, GnuTLS, Nettle and GMP, under their own licences: Settings › Engine › Licences and Notices.
Pictures and lists in the app
- Console icons: RetroArch's themes from libretro's retroarch-assets, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: Automatic, Systematic and FlatUX by baxysquare (his themes), Retrosystem based on them, Dot-art by Yoshi-kun and Tatsuya79, Monochrome by Kivutar, and Daite, FlatUI and Pixel by libretro's contributors.
- Console controllers' pictures on the Controllers page, in CF Gaming 11.5: OpenEmu's, drawn by Craig Erskine, David McLeod and Ricky Romero.
- What each Nintendo 64 game saves on: from the Mupen64Plus team's list of games in Mupen64Plus-Core, under the GNU General Public License version 2.
- CF Gaming's own build of Mupen64Plus-Next: libretro's mupen64plus-libretro-nx with Davey-Hughes's fix for GLideN64 on a Mac (#664), under the GNU General Public License version 2, with its source.
Downloaded when you ask
RetroArch, its cores, the shaders, libretro-database's and Project64's cheat files, and the emulators aren't part of CF Gaming. CF Gaming downloads each one from its maker, under its own licence, when you ask.
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