TL;DR: If you're redistributing this you should read through the text below and examine the headers on the individual files, but basically the C/C++ source code (with the exception of valgrind.h, which can be removed if necessary) was all written by Ian Piumarta or Steven Flintham and is licensed under the "MIT (X11 flavour)" licence at the bottom of this file, just as lib6502 itself is. The autotools infrastructure support is GPL licensed but has exceptions for use (as is the case here) in autoconfigured packages. valgrind.h has its own license; see the comments at the top of that file. build-aux/tap-driver.sh (used as part of "make check") is GPLv2 licensed with an exception (which I believe applies to this package) allowing distribution under "the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program". See the comments at the top of that file for more details. m4/boost.m4 (used to autoconfigure the build against the Boost libraries) is GPLv3 licensed with an exception (which I believe applies to this package) allowing distribution under "terms of your choice". See the comments at the top of that file for more details. The text below is from Ian Piumarta's lib6502's COPYING file. lib6502-jit contains almost all of the code and documentation from lib6502 itself. As the author of the remaining parts of lib6502-jit, I am granting the same permissions and have added my own copyright notice, but the text below is otherwise unchanged. -- Steven Flintham Distasteful though it is for me to have to induce from afar any perturbation into your pursuit of happiness, this MIT (X11 flavour) license is at least relatively benign. Investigation into copyright stupidity reveals that it is effectively impossible to dedicate (formally) any software to the public domain (the only sure path to this most enlightened status being to leave the software to expire naturally from its 25-, 50-, 75- or whatever-year copyright rot). I fear this is not going to change before the revolution comes. In the meantime the only way I can *guarantee* you any rights at all to this software would (unfortunately) appear to be... Copyright (c) 2005 Ian Piumarta Copyright (c) 2014 Steven Flintham All rights reserved. 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, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. Inclusion of the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice in supporting documentation would be appreciated, but is not required. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS'. USE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.