MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Jeremy Anderson 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. Project Naming ============== DriveStage is the public project name. BlkStage is the internal backend that ships as `scripts/blkstage.sh` and is installed on PATH as the `drivestage` CLI command. The GUI binary is `drivestage-gui`. These names are deliberate; the project codename was changed to remove a trademark conflict with the prior identifier. Third-Party Notices =================== This project bundles or references the following third-party software, each governed by its respective license: - Rust standard library and tokio runtime — MIT / Apache-2.0 - iced GUI framework (https://github.com/iced-rs/iced) — MIT - rfd file dialog (https://github.com/PolyMeilex/rfd) — MIT - bytesize, chrono, serde, serde_json, sysinfo, nix, which, regex, thiserror, anyhow, once_cell, log, env_logger, directories — MIT / Apache-2.0 The bundled `blkstage.sh` script invokes GRUB2, systemd-boot, Limine, rEFInd, parted, sfdisk, mkfs.fat, mkfs.ext4, smartctl, rsync, and tar — each governed by its respective license. Inspiration and Attribution =========================== This project draws design inspiration from Easy2Boot and RMPrepUSB by Steve Si (https://easy2boot.xyz). The drop-and-boot payload workflow and the multi-payload USB use case originate from those tools. All code in this project is an independent, Linux-native implementation written from scratch. No code from Easy2Boot or RMPrepUSB is included or derived. Contact ======= - Author: Jeremy Anderson - Website: https://dcos.net - Repository: https://git.dcos.net/dcosnet/DriveStage