Licences
Proxy QA Browser is free and open source under the Apache License 2.0. These are the licences of the project and of the components, data and browsers it includes.
Proxy QA Browser
Proxy QA Browser is © 2026 Ubaid Bin Waris and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. You may use, modify and distribute it, including commercially, under the terms of that licence. The licence text is in the LICENSE file and the required attributions are in the NOTICE file, reproduced below.
NOTICE
Proxy QA Browser
Copyright 2026 Ubaid Bin Waris
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE).
This product includes postal code data from GeoNames (https://www.geonames.org),
licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0).
See resources/geonames/ATTRIBUTION.md.
This product includes axe-core (https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core),
Copyright (c) Deque Systems, Inc., licensed under the Mozilla Public License,
v. 2.0 (https://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/). It is distributed unmodified as the
npm package "axe-core", which includes its licence and source code.
Third-party components bundled in release builds (Electron, Chromium,
Playwright browser builds and WebKit host libraries) are distributed under
their own licences; see the "Credits and licences" section of README.md and
the notices shipped next to the application binary.Data and components bundled with the app
| Component | Licence | Where it is used |
|---|---|---|
| GeoNames postal code data | CC BY 4.0 | US location search, bundled as resources/geonames/US.txt; see ATTRIBUTION.md |
| axe-core 4.13.0, © Deque Systems, Inc. | MPL 2.0 | Accessibility checks; shipped unmodified with its licence and readable source |
| Electron | MIT | The desktop app shell |
| Chromium (inside Electron) | BSD-3-Clause and others | Listed in LICENSES.chromium.html next to the app binary |
| Playwright / playwright-core 1.63.0 | Apache-2.0 | Browser automation |
| Playwright Chromium build | BSD-3-Clause and others | Bundled or downloaded browser engine |
| Playwright Firefox build | MPL 2.0 | Bundled or downloaded browser engine |
| Playwright WebKit build | LGPL 2.1 / BSD-2-Clause | Bundled or downloaded browser engine |
WebKit host libraries in the Linux AppImage: libicu74, libflite1, libxml2 (unmodified Ubuntu packages) |
Unicode/ICU licence; BSD-style (Carnegie Mellon University); MIT | Listed with versions and sources in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt inside the AppImage |
| react-icons 5.7.0: Simple Icons and Font Awesome 6 sets | MIT (package); CC0 1.0 (Simple Icons); CC BY 4.0 (Font Awesome icons) | Brand and browser marks in the interface |
| Lucide icons (lucide-react) | ISC | Interface icons |
| @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.32.1 | MIT | The MCP server for AI assistants |
| Zod, pngjs | MIT | Validation; screenshot comparison |
| pixelmatch | ISC | Visual comparison |
| dotenv | BSD-2-Clause | Development configuration |
| React, React Router, Zustand, Tailwind CSS, clsx, tailwind-merge | MIT | The app's interface |
Build tools such as TypeScript (Apache-2.0), Vite, electron-vite, electron-builder, Vitest and ESLint (MIT) are used to build and test the app; each is under its own licence.
This website
The website is part of the same repository and licensed under the Apache License 2.0. It uses Next.js 16.4 (MIT), React 19.3 (MIT), marked (MIT) for documentation pages and Zod (MIT). Social preview images are drawn on the server with the image renderer bundled in Next.js (@vercel/og, MPL 2.0) and the Geist font (SIL Open Font License 1.1). The site loads no external fonts or services.
Trademarks
Product names such as browser and proxy provider names are trademarks of their owners and are used only to identify them. See the Disclaimer.