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Third-Party Licenses

AutoControl is distributed under the MIT License. It depends on the third-party components listed below, each covered by its own license. Full copies of the upstream license texts are archived under LICENSEs/.

Runtime dependencies (pinned in pyproject.toml)

Package Version License Purpose
je_open_cv 0.0.22 MIT OpenCV-based image recognition helpers (locate_all_image, template match)
Pillow 12.2.0 MIT-CMU (HPND) Screenshot encoding, image I/O
mss 10.1.0 MIT Fast multi-monitor screenshot backend
pyobjc-core 12.1 MIT macOS backend — Python/Objective-C bridge (Darwin only)
pyobjc 12.1 MIT macOS backend — Cocoa / Quartz bindings (Darwin only)
python-Xlib 0.33 LGPL-2.1-or-later Linux X11 backend (Linux only)

Optional GUI extras (pip install je_auto_control[gui])

Package Version License Purpose
PySide6 6.11.0 LGPL-3.0 / Qt Commercial Qt 6 GUI framework used by start_autocontrol_gui()
qt-material 2.17 BSD-2-Clause Material Design themes for PySide6

Optional feature dependencies (loaded lazily, not pinned)

Package License Purpose
pytesseract + Tesseract OCR Apache-2.0 / Apache-2.0 OCR engine behind find_text_matches, click_text
anthropic MIT VLM element locator — Anthropic backend (locate_by_description)
openai Apache-2.0 VLM element locator — OpenAI backend
uiautomation Apache-2.0 Windows accessibility backend (UIA) (Windows only)

These are imported on first use; AutoControl degrades gracefully when any are absent (see VLMNotAvailableError, AccessibilityNotAvailableError, and the OCR engine's pytesseract is required error message).

Development-only dependencies

Listed in dev_requirements.txt. Build/packaging and documentation only — not shipped with the wheel.

Package License
wheel MIT
build MIT
twine Apache-2.0
sphinx BSD-2-Clause
sphinx-rtd-theme MIT
pytest MIT
ruff MIT
pylint GPL-2.0
bandit Apache-2.0
radon MIT

External runtime services

Optional backends AutoControl talks to over HTTPS. API keys are read only from environment variables and never logged or persisted.

Service Used by Env var Terms
Anthropic API VLM locator ANTHROPIC_API_KEY https://www.anthropic.com/legal
OpenAI API VLM locator OPENAI_API_KEY https://openai.com/policies

Override the preferred backend with AUTOCONTROL_VLM_BACKEND=anthropic|openai and the default model with AUTOCONTROL_VLM_MODEL=<model-id>.

Attributions

Local copies of upstream license texts are kept under LICENSEs/ for:

  • AutoControl/LICENSE — this project's MIT license
  • Numpy/ — NumPy (transitive via OpenCV)
  • OpenCV/ — OpenCV (transitive via je_open_cv)
  • Pillow/ — Pillow
  • python_xlib/ — python-Xlib

If you redistribute AutoControl, include these notices alongside your distribution and comply with each dependency's license terms (in particular LGPL components — PySide6 and python-Xlib — require that users can relink against modified versions of the library).