# Third-Party Tools & Licensing

TraceForge acts as an orchestration and analytical harness around open-source security tools. It does not bundle binary copies of third-party tools in its repository.

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## 1. Third-Party Licenses

All integrated third-party command-line utilities remain the intellectual property of their respective creators and are licensed under their own open-source terms (GPL, Apache 2.0, MIT, BSD, Artistic License).

Key third-party tools integrated:
- **ExifTool**: Phil Harvey (Artistic License / GPL v1+)
- **TShark / Wireshark**: The Wireshark Project (GPL v2)
- **Nmap**: Gordon Lyon / Insecure.org (Nmap Public Source License / GPL v2)
- **Binwalk**: Craig Heffner / ReFirm Labs (MIT License)
- **Sherlock**: Sherlock Project (MIT License)
- **Holehe**: Megadose (GPL v3)
- **Aircrack-NG**: Thomas d'Otreppe (GPL v2+)
- **Poppler / PDF utilities**: Poppler Developers (GPL v2/v3)
- **YARA**: VirusTotal / Victor M. Alvarez (BSD 3-Clause)
- **Radare2**: pancake and radare2 contributors (LGPL v3)

For further tool catalog details and per-tool ecosystem classifications, see the [Tool Catalog Reference](tools.md).