Ebors · Licensing & attributions

App licensing

Ebors is an Android web browser distributed by Tejas Thimmaiah. This page is the public companion to the LICENSE and NOTICE files inside the Ebors source repository and the in-app “Open-source licenses” screen.

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License for Ebors itself
Rendering engine
Third-party libraries
Apache License, Version 2.0
Trademarks & brand
Reporting an issue

License for Ebors itself

© 2026 Tejas Thimmaiah. Ebors is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. You are free to use, modify, and redistribute the source under the terms of that license, including for commercial use, provided you retain attribution and the license notice.

The Apache-2.0 license includes a patent grant from contributors to users. It does not grant rights to use the “Ebors” name or logo to label your own redistributions — see Trademarks below.

Rendering engine

Ebors uses Android’s system WebView as its rendering engine. The system WebView is Chromium-based and is provided by the device’s operating system (Google or the OEM); it is not bundled inside the Ebors APK. That is why Ebors does not ship a copy of Chromium and is not required to redistribute the Chromium LICENSE or credits.html in its application bundle.

If you read the Ebors source you’ll see calls into android.webkit.WebView and the AndroidX androidx.webkit compatibility layer; both of those are interfaces, not the engine itself.

Third-party libraries (in the APK)

The libraries below are compiled into the Ebors APK. Every one is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

AndroidX — core-ktx, appcompat, activity, constraintlayout, recyclerview, swiperefreshlayout, webkit. © Google LLC / The Android Open Source Project.
Material Components for Android — © Google LLC.
Kotlin standard library — © JetBrains s.r.o. and Kotlin contributors.
OkHttp — © Square, Inc.

Test-only dependencies (JUnit, org.json) are not compiled into the shipping APK and so are not redistributed.

Apache License, Version 2.0

The full text of the Apache License, Version 2.0 is available at apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 and is shipped in the Ebors source repository as the file LICENSE. A short summary of the obligations it places on a redistributor:

Include a copy of the License with any redistribution.
Mark any modified files as modified.
Retain copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices.
If the project includes a NOTICE file, include a readable copy of it with redistributions.

The Apache-2.0 license is permissive, includes an explicit patent grant, and is widely used across the Android ecosystem.

Trademarks & brand

“Ebors” and the Ebors logo are unregistered trademarks of Tejas Thimmaiah. The Apache-2.0 license does not grant permission to use these marks; if you fork the source and redistribute, please use a different name and identity so users can tell the upstream project apart from your fork.

“Android,” the Android logo, and “Google Play” are trademarks of Google LLC. “Chromium” is a name used by The Chromium Authors for their open-source browser project. Ebors is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google LLC or The Chromium Authors.

Reporting an issue

If you believe a third-party component is missing from this page, or you spot a licensing problem in the Ebors source, please reach out at ThimmaiahKK@proton.me.

Last updated: 2026.