# Licences in `app/` (the PS5 title shell)

`app/` is the PS5 title around the emulator: the home screen, settings, installers and the PS5 platform
glue. It started as Mihawk's **PS5 Vulkan Template**. Each file's header is authoritative.

| Files | Copyright | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| `base/`, `shaders/`, template files with an MIT header (`ps5/src/platform*.c`, `launcher.cpp`, …) and template files without a header (`ps5/src/main.cpp`, `samples.cpp`, `ps5/tools/*`) | Sascha Willems; Mihawk | MIT (`LICENSE.md`; the template README states the foundation is MIT) |
| `external/*`, `ps5/third_party/volk` | their authors | as in each folder's licence file |
| `ps5/ui/*`, `examples/rpcs3ps5/rpcs3ps5.cpp` | Mihawk (with KB's changes) | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| `examples/rpcs3ps5/kit/*` except `ps5_frontend.h`; `ps5/src/ps5_env.c`, `ps5_dl.c`, `ps5_fastclock.c`, `ps5_tuning.c`, `import_check.c`, `probe_rpcs3.cpp` | KB | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| `examples/rpcs3ps5/kit/ps5_frontend.h` (the interface to the patched RPCS3 core) | KB | GPL-2.0-only (see `../LICENSING_STATUS.md` §5) |

The UI kit (ps5-homebrew-ui) is not in this folder: `ps5/ui/setup-kit.sh` fetches it at build time.

`README.md` in this folder was generated by the PS5 Vulkan Template when this title was created from it; its first-person text is the template author's.