About
Licence and credits
linscp's licence, the projects it is built from, and where to find their licence texts.
linscp is free software. You may use it for any purpose, study and change its source, and share copies, modified or not. The rules for all of this are set by version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It comes with no warranty.
Your rights in practice
Section titled “Your rights in practice”- Use linscp at home, at work or in a company, at no cost and without registering.
- Install it on as many machines as you like.
- If you give someone a copy of linscp, modified or not, you must also offer them the matching source code under the same licence.
The full text is in the LICENSE file of the
source repository, and in linscp under
Help › About… › License….
What linscp is built from
Section titled “What linscp is built from”linscp would not exist without WinSCP. Most of what it does, from the protocol code to the dialogs it copies, is the work of WinSCP’s author and contributors.
| Component | Role in linscp | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| WinSCP, by Martin Přikryl | The core: sessions, transfers, scripting, messages | GPL 3 |
| PuTTY, by Simon Tatham and others | SSH, SFTP and SCP | MIT-style |
| FileZilla’s FTP engine, by Tim Kosse | FTP and FTPS | GPL |
| OpenSSL | TLS and cryptography | Apache 2.0 |
| neon | WebDAV | LGPL |
| libs3 | Amazon S3 | LGPL 3 |
| Expat | XML parsing | MIT |
| Qt | The interface | LGPL 3 |
| Lucide, Tabler Icons, Fluent UI System Icons | Toolbar and menu icons | ISC, MIT, MIT |
The About window lists the exact versions in your build. Its translation credits name the people who translated WinSCP into your language.
linscp’s application icon is its own design, built around a Lucide glyph. linscp does not use WinSCP’s icons or artwork, which WinSCP’s licence does not allow other programs to reuse.
Where the licence texts are
Section titled “Where the licence texts are”Every package carries the licences of all the parts above:
| Package | Folder |
|---|---|
.deb |
/usr/share/doc/linscp/ |
| AppImage | usr/share/doc/linscp/ inside the image |
| Flatpak | /app/share/doc/linscp/ inside the sandbox |
| Windows setup | licenses in the install folder |
| Windows portable zip | licenses beside linscp.exe |
Names and affiliation
Section titled “Names and affiliation”linscp is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the WinSCP project. It uses the name WinSCP only to say where its code comes from.
Copyright © 2026 Eduardo Correia for linscp’s own code. Copyright for the parts listed above stays with their authors.
Website and manual
Section titled “Website and manual”The text of this manual and of the website is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). You may copy, adapt and republish it, also commercially, as long as you credit linscp, link to the licence and share your changes under the same terms.
The code that builds the website (components, theme and scripts) is under
GPL-3.0-or-later, like linscp. Both licence texts are in the
website repository: LICENSE
for the code, LICENSE-docs for the text.
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