Nawam is based on the open-source Rufus project.
Copyright 2011-2026 Pete Batard and contributors.
Nawam modifications: Copyright 2026 SHANNA Digital Systems.
GPL-3.0-or-later. Complete component licenses remain in source.


UI redesign concept by Fahad Al-Riyami

Used with kind authorization



Upstream Rufus icon by PC Unleashed (unused retained asset):

Freeware



Additional icons courtesy of Axialis Software:

https://axialis.com/

CC BY-ND 4.0, when used as native resolution bitmaps



Boot record handling from ms-sys by Henrik Carlqvist:

http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



FreeDOS support from the FreeDOS project:

https://www.freedos.org/

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later, with binary redistribution allowed



ISO extraction support from libcdio by Rocky Bernstein et al.:

https://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio

GNU General Public License (GPL) v3 or later



WIM image manipulation support from wimlib by Carl Thijssen and Eric Biggers:

https://wimlib.net

GNU General Public License (GPL) v3 or later



Syslinux support from Syslinux by H. Peter Anvin et al.:

https://syslinux.org/

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



Grub4DOS support from Grub4DOS by chenall, itself based on GRUB Legacy by the Free Software Foundation:

https://github.com/chenall/grub4dos

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



GRUB 2 support from GNU GRUB by the Free Software Foundation:

https://www.gnu.org/software/grub

GNU General Public License (GPL) v3 or later



ReactOS support & additional FAT and time-conversion handling by ReactOS:

https://www.reactos.org/

https://svn.reactos.org/reactos/trunk

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



Bad blocks testing and ext2/ext3 formatting from e2fsprogs by Theodore Ts'o et al.:

http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/

GNU General Public License (GPL) v3 compatible



Large FAT32 volume formatting from fat32format by Tom Thornhill:

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



XML parsing support from ezxml by Aaron Voisine:

https://ezxml.sourceforge.net/

MIT license



fmifs.dll usage based on Formatx by Mark Russinovich:

https://svn.reactos.org/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/fmifs

Public Domain



Device enumeration based on TestUSBDriveEject.cpp by ahmd:

https://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1951973

Public Domain



Handle search & process enumeration from System Informer by wj32 & dmex:

https://systeminformer.sourceforge.io/

GNU General Public License (GPL) v3 or later



Decompression support from BusyBox/Bled:

https://www.busybox.net/

https://github.com/pbatard/bled

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



USB vs HDD and additional functions calls derived from smartmontools:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



Partition and FS Type identification from GNU fdisk and GPT fdisk:

https://www.gnu.org/software/fdisk

https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gdisk

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



Speed/ETA computation from GNU wget:

https://www.gnu.org/software/wget

GNU General Public License (GPL) v3 or later



Additional bootloaders from KolibriOS:

https://kolibrios.org/

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



MD5 digest functions by Ron Rivest, Colin Plumb et al.

Public Domain



SHA1 digest functions from GnuPG:

https://www.gnupg.org/

GNU General Public License (GPL) v3 or later



SHA256 digest functions from 7-zip by Igor Pavlov and Crypto++ by Wei Dai:

https://7-zip.org/

https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/

Public Domain



SHA512 digest functions from libtomcrypt:

https://github.com/libtom/libtomcrypt

Public Domain



PE256 digest functions from U-Boot:

https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



About and License dialogs inspired by WinSCP by Martin Prikryl

https://winscp.net/

GNU General Public License (GPL) v3 or later



Check for Update dialog inspired by TortoiseSVN & TortoiseGit

https://tortoisesvn.net/, https://tortoisegit.org/

GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 or later



Dark Mode support by ozone10

https://github.com/ozone10



Regular Expression parser from tiny-regex-c by Jim Huang (jserv):

https://github.com/jserv/cregex

BSD 2-Clause



All other references can be found in the source.