libuv is part of the Node project: http://nodejs.org/ libuv may be distributed alone under Node's license: ==== Copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors. All rights reserved. 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 copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 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. ==== This license applies to all parts of libuv that are not externally maintained libraries. The externally maintained libraries used by libuv are: - tree.h (from FreeBSD), copyright Niels Provos. Two clause BSD license. - inet_pton and inet_ntop implementations, contained in src/inet.c, are copyright the Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., and licensed under the ISC license. - stdint-msvc2008.h (from msinttypes), copyright Alexander Chemeris. Three clause BSD license. - pthread-fixes.h, pthread-fixes.c, copyright Google Inc. and Sony Mobile Communications AB. Three clause BSD license. - android-ifaddrs.h, android-ifaddrs.c, copyright Berkeley Software Design Inc, Kenneth MacKay and Emergya (Cloud4all, FP7/2007-2013, grant agreement n° 289016). Three clause BSD license.