Open Source Licenses

Acknowledgments

ClawPad is built on the shoulders of giants. We're grateful to the open source community for the amazing tools and libraries that make ClawPad possible.

Usage Policy

ClawPad is free for personal, business, and commercial use, including Remote API usage.

Core Framework

PyQt6

Qt for Python | GPL v3 / Commercial

Cross-platform GUI toolkit that powers ClawPad's native interface.

https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/

Python

Python Software Foundation License

The programming language that ClawPad is built with.

https://www.python.org/

Database & Storage

SQLite

Public Domain

Embedded database engine for local data storage.

https://www.sqlite.org/

SQLAlchemy

MIT License

Python SQL toolkit and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM).

https://www.sqlalchemy.org/

Security & Encryption

cryptography

Apache License 2.0 / BSD 3-Clause

Cryptographic recipes and primitives for Python, used for API key encryption.

https://cryptography.io/

Networking

httpx

BSD 3-Clause License

Async HTTP client for API communications.

https://www.python-httpx.org/

websockets

BSD 3-Clause License

WebSocket implementation for OpenClaw Gateway communication.

https://websockets.readthedocs.io/

File Processing

Pillow (PIL Fork)

HPND License

Python Imaging Library for image processing and thumbnails.

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/

PyMuPDF (fitz)

GNU AGPL v3

PDF processing library for text extraction.

https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/

python-docx

MIT License

Library for creating and modifying Word documents.

https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/

Text Processing

Markdown

BSD 3-Clause License

Python implementation of Markdown for rendering chat messages.

https://python-markdown.github.io/

Pygments

BSD 2-Clause License

Syntax highlighting for code blocks.

https://pygments.org/

tiktoken

MIT License

Fast BPE tokenizer for token counting.

https://github.com/openai/tiktoken

Data Validation

Pydantic

MIT License

Data validation using Python type annotations.

https://pydantic.dev/

Fonts

Open Sans

Apache License 2.0

Humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson. Used as the primary UI font (same as Telegram).

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans

Inter

SIL Open Font License 1.1

Variable font family designed by Rasmus Andersson. Used on this website.

https://rsms.me/inter/

Build & Distribution

PyInstaller

GPL v2 (with special exception)

Bundles Python applications into stand-alone executables.

https://pyinstaller.org/

Full License Texts

The full text of each license is included in the ClawPad installation at:

ClawPad.app/Contents/Resources/licenses/

Or on Windows/Linux:

[Install Directory]/licenses/

Contributing

If you believe we've missed attributing a library or have incorrectly stated a license, please contact us at legal@clawpad.ai and we'll promptly correct it.