velopack/vendor/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md

Vendor Binaries

This folder contains pre-compiled binaries from a variety of sources. These should be updated periodically.

rcedit.exe

• Updates PE resources, like VersionInfo or icons. It is used when generating Setup.exe and Update.exe to apply the user preferences.
• Can be found at https://github.com/electron/rcedit/releases
• MIT License: https://github.com/electron/rcedit/blob/master/LICENSE

signtool.exe

• Signs application binaries while building packages.
• Can be found in the Windows SDK at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x86\signtool.exe" or similar, depending on the version of the SDK you have installed.
• License? https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues/10478

7za.exe / 7zz

• Incldued because it is much faster at zipping / unzipping than the available managed algorithms.
• Can be found at https://www.7-zip.org/
• License is LGPL & BSD 3: https://www.7-zip.org/license.txt

zstd.exe

• Fast compression and diff/patch
• Can be found at https://github.com/facebook/zstd
• License is GPL-2.0 & BSD 3: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/LICENSE, https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/COPYING