Component provenance¶

This page lists third-party components bundled with or required by Lights Off and their respective licenses and origins.

Bundled components¶

Tolk.py¶

Field	Value
File	lights_off/Tolk.py
Author	Davy Kager
License	LGPLv3
Source	https://github.com/dkager/tolk
Purpose	Windows screen reader bridge (NVDA, JAWS, SAPI)

Tolk is bundled directly as a Python file because the LGPLv3 licence is compatible with the application's GPL-2.0-only licence under standard LGPL linking terms.

Runtime dependencies¶

Package	License	Purpose
wxPython	wxWindows Library Licence (GPL exception)	Cross-platform GUI framework
Mastodon.py	MIT	Mastodon API client
tweak	MIT	Per-application configuration storage
pyperclip	BSD-3-Clause	Clipboard access
sound_lib	MIT	Audio playback (Windows/macOS)
accessible_output2	MIT	macOS screen reader output
keyboard_handler	MIT	Always-on hotkey registration

Forked from¶

Lights Off is a fork of Quinter, a Twitter client originally written by Quintin Storm and contributors. The original Quinter code was not explicitly licensed at the time of the fork; the lights-off project has been re-released under GPL-2.0-only with the fork history preserved in git.