GroomLab helper (groomlab-helper) - license

groomlab-helper and the files in this bin/ folder (but for the third-party components named in
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt, each under its own license) are part of GroomLab.
Copyright 2026 Nick Rutlinh. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: you may use,
change and redistribute it under that license's terms: LICENSE and NOTICE beside this file, and
https://github.com/thekesslereffect/groomlab for the source.
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, it is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

groomlab-helper is a separate program. GroomLab's Blender add-on, beside this folder, is free
software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later: it starts groomlab-helper as
its own process and exchanges data with it over pipes and shared memory, as a program talks to
another. Nothing of the helper is loaded into Blender.
