Third-party software and notices

BacCat™, BacCat Desktop and this website are Strong Technology's. They use the software below, which is not ours; each is used under its own licence, named here.

In BacCat Desktop: mstpcap

BacCat Desktop ships mstpcap.exe from bacnet-stack 1.6.1, by Steve Karg and contributors, to record BACnet MS/TP traffic from a serial port. bacnet-stack is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later, with the GCC Runtime Library Exception, version 2.0 (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0). mstpcap.exe is shipped unmodified, as a separate program, and its licence text is installed beside it.

The source of bacnet-stack 1.6.1 and its licence texts (GPL-2.0, the GCC exception, MIT, BSD-3-Clause and Apache-2.0) are at https://github.com/StrongTechnology/BacCat.Desktop-releases/tree/main/third-party/bacnet-stack-1.6.1.

bacnet-stack and its authors do not endorse BacCat or Strong Technology.

On this website

The site and its analysis run on:

• Django (BSD-3-Clause)
• django-allauth (MIT)
• Celery (BSD-3-Clause)
• gunicorn (MIT)
• WhiteNoise (MIT)
• psycopg (LGPL-3.0), used unmodified as a library, which the LGPL permits
• Python-Markdown (BSD-3-Clause)
• cryptography (Apache-2.0 or BSD-3-Clause, at the user's choice)
• pandas (BSD-3-Clause)
• Jinja2 (BSD-3-Clause)
• Wireshark's tshark (GPL-2.0-or-later), run as a separate program on our server and not distributed to anyone
• PostgreSQL (the PostgreSQL Licence)
• Redis 7.4 (the Redis Source Available Licence 2.0 or the Server Side Public Licence 1, at the user's choice; both permit this use)
• Caddy (Apache-2.0)
• Ubuntu and Debian container images

Each of these brings the libraries it needs, under their own licences.

Trademarks

BACnet® is a registered trademark of ASHRAE. Wireshark® is a registered trademark of the Wireshark Foundation. BacCat™ is a trademark of Strong Technology, LLC.

Vendor names

The vendor names in BacCat's reports come from the ASHRAE BACnet vendor-ID registry.