Third Party Notices

Last updated November 1, 2026

VeChat is built with the help of data, services and open source software from other people and organisations. This page gives the credit their licences ask for. Each item remains the property of its owners and is used under the licence named.

In this documentMaps Fonts Open source software in the app Open source software on our servers Licence texts Trademarks

Maps

Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (openstreetmap.org/copyright).
Map tiles and styles: OpenFreeMap (openfreemap.org) and OpenStreetMap, with style elements © OpenMapTiles.
Place search: Nominatim, using OpenStreetMap data.
Routes: Project OSRM (project-osrm.org), using OpenStreetMap data.
Map display: MapLibre GL JS (BSD 3-Clause licence) and Leaflet (BSD 2-Clause licence).

Fonts

The lettering in VeChat and on our websites uses fonts served by Google Fonts, including Inter, Fredoka, Comfortaa, Indie Flower, Permanent Marker, Pacifico, Comic Neue and Bangers. They are licensed by their designers under the SIL Open Font License or the Apache License 2.0.

Open source software in the app

React and React DOM (MIT licence), Meta Platforms and contributors.
Capacitor and its plugins for app, geolocation, haptics, keyboard, notifications, share, splash screen and status bar (MIT licence), Ionic and contributors. Capacitor Community Contacts (MIT licence).
three.js (MIT licence), three.js authors.
MediaPipe Tasks Vision (Apache License 2.0), Google.
TensorFlow.js (Apache License 2.0), Google.
NSFWJS (MIT licence), Infinite Red.
Ably JavaScript client (Apache License 2.0), Ably.
Firebase JavaScript SDK and Firebase Cloud Messaging (Apache License 2.0), Google.
Google Play Billing, Play Integrity, Google Identity and Google Cast libraries, used under Google's terms of service for those libraries.
AndroidX libraries (Apache License 2.0), The Android Open Source Project.
chess.js (BSD 2-Clause licence), Jeff Hlywa.
libsodium and libsodium.js (ISC licence), Frank Denis and contributors.
ffmpeg.wasm (MIT licence), which includes FFmpeg, licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later (ffmpeg.org).
jsQR (Apache License 2.0), Cosmo Wolfe.
qrcode (MIT licence), Ryan Day.
Mapbox GL RTL Text (BSD 2-Clause licence), Mapbox.
unicode-emoji-json (MIT licence), Mu-An Chiou.
libSQL client (MIT licence), Turso.

Open source software on our servers

Next.js (MIT licence), Vercel.
AWS SDK for JavaScript (Apache License 2.0), Amazon.
jose (MIT licence), Filip Skokan.
Nodemailer (MIT No Attribution licence), Andris Reinman.
sharp (Apache License 2.0), Lovell Fuller and contributors.

Licence texts

The full text of each licence is available from the project's own website or source repository, and at opensource.org/licenses and spdx.org/licenses. The software is provided by its authors "as is", without warranty of any kind, as their licences state. If you need a copy of a licence text or of source code that a licence entitles you to, write to support@velovid.net.

Trademarks

Google, Google Play, Android and Firebase are trademarks of Google LLC. Apple and Mac are trademarks of Apple Inc. WhatsApp is a trademark of WhatsApp LLC and is mentioned only to describe sticker pack import. All other names belong to their owners. VeChat is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of them.