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jq

jq is an open-source command-line JSON processor originally written by Stephen Dolan and now maintained by the jqlang project. It is free software released under the MIT licence.

Licensing at a Glance

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  1. jq is licensed under the MIT license; full details are in the COPYING file of the source distribution.[1]

  2. The COPYING file states that jq is copyright (C) 2012 Stephen Dolan and grants permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense and sell copies, provided the copyright and permission notice is included.[2]

  3. jq's documentation (the docs/ subdirectory of the source tree) is licensed separately under Creative Commons CC BY 3.0.[3]

  4. jq uses a decimal-number C library obtained from the ICU downloads archive, which is distributed under the ICU 1.8.1 licence.[4]

  5. Prebuilt jq binaries are standalone executables for Linux, macOS and Windows, and jq is also packaged in the official Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and Arch repositories.[5]

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References

  1. Download jq · jqlang.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. jq COPYING · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. jq COPYING · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. Download jq · jqlang.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  5. Download jq · jqlang.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
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