Licence and credits
Licence
bonSQL is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3, or (at your option) any later version. It comes with absolutely no warranty.
The complete source code of every release is published with that release.
Copyright
Copyright © 2026 André Walsh. S.A.R.L. Walsh-Howard Consulting manages and promotes bonSQL and is authorised to act on André Walsh’s behalf.
Based on SQLyog Community
bonSQL is based on SQLyog Community 13.3.1, copyright © 2001-2025 Webyog Inc., which Webyog published under the GNU General Public License. Webyog’s copyright notices remain in the files they wrote, and each file bonSQL changed says so.
SQLyog and Webyog are trademarks of their owners. bonSQL is not affiliated with or endorsed by Webyog.
Components
bonSQL includes or uses the following, each under its own licence. The full licence texts are in
THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt, installed with the program and kept in the source code.
| Component | Licence |
|---|---|
| MariaDB Connector/C | LGPL 2.1 or later |
| OpenSSL | Apache 2.0 |
| zlib | zlib |
| Scintilla and Lexilla | Scintilla licence |
| SQLite | public domain |
| PCRE | BSD |
| JsonCpp | MIT, or public domain |
| TinyXML and TinyXML-2 | zlib |
| WyCrc (CRC code by Michael Barr) | public domain |
| litehtml | BSD 3-Clause |
| gumbo | Apache 2.0 |
| PuTTY plink | MIT |
| Fluent UI System Icons (Microsoft) | MIT |
Trademarks
MySQL is a trademark of Oracle Corporation. MariaDB is a trademark of MariaDB plc. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. bonSQL uses these names only to say what it works with.