Licences

Last changed 30 September 2026

Marten is built on other people’s work. This is what it uses and under which terms.

The same list is in the apps: Settings on the Mac, Settings › About on the Apple TV.

Marten

Marten All rights reserved: © 2026 Rasmus Martinsson. Marten is not affiliated with Stremio.

AetherEngine 7.21.0 LGPL-3.0 with an App Store exception: The playback engine. © 2026 Vincent Herbst. Marten uses the upstream release with one change: the library is built dynamic, so it can be replaced (a type: .dynamic line in its Package.swift). Source and licence text: github.com/superuser404notfound/AetherEngine.
FFmpegBuild 3.6.0 LGPL-2.1 or later; dav1d BSD-2-Clause; libzvbi MIT; zimg WTFPL: FFmpeg 8.1.3 built without GPL parts, as dynamic libraries AetherEngine loads. Source, build recipe and licence texts: github.com/superuser404notfound/FFmpegBuild. FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
LibDovi 2.1.0 MIT: Reads Dolby Vision metadata. The libdovi library is MIT-licensed; the Swift package is by Vincent Herbst: github.com/superuser404notfound/LibDovi.
SMBClient 0.3.1 MIT: © Kishikawa Katsumi. Linked by AetherEngine. Marten’s apps do not browse network shares: github.com/kishikawakatsumi/SMBClient.
Apple media frameworks Apple system frameworks: AVFoundation, VideoToolbox, Core Media and AudioToolbox.
Sparkle 2.10.0 MIT, with the notices of its bundled components: Updates for the Mac app. © Sparkle Project. It bundles bsdiff, sais-lite and ed25519 code under their own licences, all printed in its LICENSE file: github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle.

stremio-core MIT: © 2019-2026 Smart Code OOD. Marten follows its rules for Continue Watching, the library, notifications and the calendar: github.com/Stremio/stremio-core.
local-search MIT: © 2022 Stremio. The suggestion search in Marten is a Swift port of it: github.com/Stremio/local-search.
TMDB TMDB API terms: This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Used with your own key.
Cinemeta, Metahub, IntroDB, MDBList Each under its own terms: Catalogues, artwork, intro markers and ratings the app asks for. MDBList is used with your own key.

qrcode-generator 2.0.4 MIT: © 2009 Kazuhiko Arase: github.com/kazuhikoarase/qrcode-generator. Draws the code you scan to set up two-step verification; it runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. “QR Code” is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.