# TuxGuitar

## Description

TuxGuitar is an open source multitrack tablature editor and player written in Java.

## Download and installation

The official website for TuxGuitar is https://www.tuxguitar.app/.

You can find ready to use installation packages for Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD and Android here: [releases](https://github.com/helge17/tuxguitar/releases/).

Please download TuxGuitar only from the website or the GitHub link provided above.

To build TuxGuitar from source code, refer to the [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) file.

## Contribute

If you want to contribute to TuxGuitar, you will find a helpful description in the [CONTRIBUTING.md](docs/CONTRIBUTING.md) file.

## License

TuxGuitar is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Copyright (C) 2005-2022 Julián Casadesús
              2023-2025 guiv42, helge17

## Third party products

TuxGuitar includes the following third party products:

* SWT version: SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit): https://www.eclipse.org/swt/
* JFX version: JavaFX (Java client application platform): https://openjfx.io/
* Gervill (Java Software Synthesizer)
* iText (Free Java-PDF library): https://itextpdf.com/
* Magic Sound Font v2.0 - Contributed by Dennis Deutschmann