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smartmontools

smartmontools is an open-source project providing smartctl and smartd for monitoring the SMART self-monitoring data of ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe disks. It is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 or later.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. The project README states that smartmontools uses the GNU GPL Version 2 licence.[1]

  2. Source files carry the SPDX identifier GPL-2.0-or-later.[2]

  3. The package contains two utilities, smartctl and smartd, to control and monitor storage devices using SMART on ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe disks, on Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris, Windows and other systems.[3]

  4. The program uses free code signing provided by SignPath.io, with a free code signing certificate from the SignPath Foundation.[4]

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References

  1. GitHub - smartmontools/smartmontools: This is now the official upstream repository of smartmontools · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. smartmontools/smartmontools/smartctl.cpp at master · smartmontools/smartmontools · GitHub · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. GitHub - smartmontools/smartmontools: This is now the official upstream repository of smartmontools · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. GitHub - smartmontools/smartmontools: This is now the official upstream repository of smartmontools · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
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