Meterpreter is available for use under the following license, commonly known as the 3-clause (or "modified") BSD license: ========================================================================================= Meterpreter ----------- Copyright (c) 2006-2013, Rapid7 Inc Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * Neither the name of Rapid7 nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. ========================================================================================= Portions of Meterpreter are based on works by others. Licenses for those portions are detailed below. Files: ReflectiveDLLInjection/* Copyright: 2009, Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security (www.harmonysecurity.com) License: BSD-3-clause Files: source/common/queue.h Copyright: 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California License: BSD-3-clause Files: source/common/zlib/* source/server/zlib/* Copyright: 1995-1996 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler License: Zlib Files: source/bionic/libc/* Copyright: 2005-2008, The Android Open Source Project 2004 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") 1995,1996,1999 by Internet Software Consortium 1995 by International Business Machines, Inc. 1997,1998,1999,2004 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou 1983,1985,1989,1993 The Regents of the University of California 2000 Ben Harris 1995,1996,1997,1998 WIDE Project 2003 Networks Associates Technology, Inc. 1993 by Digital Equipment Corporation 1997 Mark Brinicombe 1993 Martin Birgmeier 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1997, 2005 Todd C. Miller 1995, 1996 Carnegie-Mellon University 2003 Networks Associates Technology, Inc. License: BSD-3-clause and BSD-4-clause Files: source/bionic/libdl/* Copyright: 2007 The Android Open Source Project License: BSD-3-clause Files: source/bionic/libm/* Copyright: 2003, Steven G. Kargl 2003 Mike Barcroft 2002-2005 David Schultz 2004 Stefan Farfeleder 2003 Dag-Erling Coïdan Smørgrav 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 1985,1988,1991,1992,1993 The Regents of the University of California 1993,94 Winning Strategies, Inc. 1993, 2004 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. License: BSD-2-clause and BSD-3-clause and BSD-4-clause Files: source/extensions/espia/screen.c Copyright: 1994-2008, Mark Hammond License: BSD-2-clause Files: source/extensions/priv/server/timestomp.c Copyright: 2005 Vincent Liu License: GPL-2 Files: source/extensions/stdapi/server/webcam/bmp2jpeg.c source/screenshot/bmp2jpeg.c Copyright: 1994-2008, Mark Hammond License: BSD-2-clause Files: source/extensions/stdapi/server/railgun/railgun.c Copyright: 2010, patrickHVE@googlemail.com License: BSD-2-clause Files: source/pssdk/* Copyright: microOLAP License: N/A Comment: HD Moore holds a single-seat developer license for the Packet Sniffer SDK library embedded into the Meterpreter Sniffer extension. This source code is not distributed with Metasploit Framework. Files: source/openssl/* Copyright: 1998-2002 The OpenSSL Project License: OpenSSL and SSLeay Files: source/server/posix/sfsyscall.h Copyright: 2003 Philippe Biondi License: LGPL Files: source/jpeg-8/* Copyright: 1991-2010, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding License: BSD-3-clause Files: source/libpcap/* Copyright: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 The Regents of the University of California. License: BSD-4-clause Files: metsvc/* Copyright: 2007, Determina Inc. License: BSD-3-clause