The "pillow-heif" source code is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license, see LICENSE.txt. License for "pillow-heif" binary wheels: GPLv2, due to base library licenses. Binary wheels combine several license-compatible libraries. Here they are listed. Name: libheif License: LGPLv3 Files: libheif.[dylib|so|dll] For details, see https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/tree/v1.23.2/COPYING Source code: https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/tree/v1.23.2 Name: libde265 License: LGPLv3 Files: libde265.[dylib|so|dll] For details, see https://github.com/strukturag/libde265/tree/v1.1.1/COPYING Source code: https://github.com/strukturag/libde265/tree/v1.1.1 Name: x265 License: GPLv2 Files: libx265.[dylib|so|dll] For details, see https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git/src/4.2/COPYING Source code: https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git/src/4.2 Name: MinGW-w64 runtime (Windows wheels only) License: GPL-3.0-with-GCC-exception (libgcc, libstdc++), MIT and BSD (libwinpthread) Files: libgcc_s_seh-1.dll, libstdc++-6.dll, libwinpthread-1.dll For details, see https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/ci/master/tree/COPYING