- LightScribe is a trademark of HP Development Company, L.P. "LS Label Studio" is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by HP. The name LightScribe is used only to describe compatibility.
- LS Label Studio is free software under the GNU GPL v3.0 or later (see
LICENSE). Documentation and images indocs/are licensed under CC BY 4.0. - This repository and its releases contain no code and no data from the LightScribe System Software. The program reads the drive parameter tables and halftone tables once from a copy of the LightScribe System Software 1.18.27.10 that the user provides, and stores them locally. It does not modify, patch or redistribute that software.
- The drive protocol and the image pipeline were reconstructed for interoperability: to keep using one's own legally acquired drive and media on current operating systems. The methodology is documented in docs/02-methodology.md.
- Third-party components of the binary releases: Python (PSF License), Qt 6 / PyQt6 (GPL v3,
Riverbank Computing / The Qt Company), and for
ls64on Linux: libpng (libpng license) and zlib (zlib license). - Photos in
docs/imagesshow only details of labels burned during development. Third-party artwork used privately during testing is intentionally not published.