Open-Source Notices
Last updated: July 20, 2026
Fret Beam, a product of Fret Beam LLC, is built with the help of open-source software and freely licensed assets. We’re grateful to the people and projects below. Each component is used under its own license, and those licenses continue to govern each component. Nothing here changes them.
alphaTab
Music notation and guitar-tab rendering. Licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0).
Basic Pitch
Automatic music transcription (audio to notes), by Spotify. Licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Basic Pitch is Copyright © Spotify AB; it is used and redistributed under the terms of the Apache License 2.0, and the attribution notices in its NOTICE file are preserved.
Bravura
The music-notation font used to draw notes and symbols, by Steinberg. Licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
AVL Drumkits, “Black Pearl” (2023)
The acoustic drum samples used for grooves and backing rhythms, recorded by Glen MacArthur. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (CC-BY-SA 3.0). The license covers the sample files themselves; it places no restriction on anything you make while using Fret Beam.
Full dependency list
Fret Beam also includes a number of MIT-licensed and similarly permissively licensed libraries. The complete list of bundled dependencies and their licenses ships with the app , you can find it in Fret Beam under Settings → About.
Questions
If you have a question about a license or attribution, email support@fretbeam.com.