mstring is released under the MIT License, as are its sibling projects cparse, callonce, fson and plugin.

Use it freely — including to generate code for closed-source and commercial products. There is no copyleft, no attribution beyond keeping the copyright line, and no CLA for contributions (inbound = outbound).

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2006-2026 Fedem (Fehmi Demiralp)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Every source file carries // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT; the repository also ships the full text as LICENSE.

What the licence does not cover

The MIT grant is for the code. It does not grant rights to:

• the names FEDEM, FFS, mstring, and any other project or product name used by Fehmi Demiralp (FEDEM);
• the FEDEM / FFS logos and other brand assets;
• the domain fedem.eu / fedem.tr and their subdomains.

If you publish a modified version, don't use these names or logos in a way that implies it is the official project or endorsed by FEDEM — rename your fork. Nominative use ("a fork of mstring", "generated with mstring") is fine. See TRADEMARKS.md in the repository.

Third-party components

mstring links cparse (MIT). The grammar diagrams are drawn with railroad-diagrams (MIT) at documentation time only. Nothing of either ends up in the code mstring generates.