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, proprietary software.
Copyright (c) 2026 The GroomLab authors. All rights reserved. You may use groomlab-helper free of
charge for any purpose, commercial included. It is closed source: you may not modify, reverse
engineer or decompile it, or redistribute modified copies of it.

groomlab-helper is a separate program. GroomLab's Blender add-on, beside this folder, is free
software under the GNU General Public License: 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, and nothing of Blender or of the add-on is part of the helper.
