Pineapple Notepad aims to be a simple, lightweight, and easy to use notepad application that can be a cross-platform alternative to Notepad++. It's based on Scintilla, Qt and KDE Framework, available on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Thanks to our sponsors, Pineapple Notepad has reached its open source goal: the complete source code is now publicly available under an OSI approved license, and builds on GitHub come with every feature unlocked.
Keeping Pineapple Notepad working on all supported platforms — including less common architectures — takes extra maintenance effort, and sponsorships help make that work sustainable. As a thank-you gesture, sponsors receive a license file which unlocks a handful of nice-to-have features (the theme color editor and the customizable editor context menu) in "Effort Edition" builds; the core application stays fully usable without one.
Since GitHub builds unlock everything anyway, importing a license is completely optional: it only hides the acknowledgment dialog shown on version upgrades. The same license works in every build.
If you like this project, please consider becoming a sponsor — it helps keep Pineapple Notepad available on more platforms.
By sending patches in GitHub Pull Request, Issues, email patch
set, or any other form to this project, it is assumed that you
are offering the Pineapple Notepad project and the original
project author (Gary Wang) unlimited, non-exclusive right to
reuse, modify, and relicense the code.
This is important because the inability to relicense code has caused devastating problems for other Free Software projects (such as KDE and NASM). Pineapple Notepad will always be available in an OSI approved, DFSG-compatible license. If you wish to specify special license conditions of your contributions, just say so when you send them.
The source code of this project is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only license. Individual files may have a different, but compatible license.