EasyBCD, NeoSmart Technologies flagship product and award-winning bootloader utility for Windows, makes use of a number of open source technologies under the hood to help it accomplish some amazingness. The following is a list of products, their licenses, and links to an archive of their source code that are used in the latest version of EasyBCD:
GRUB4DOS
Our loudest and most-heartfelt gratitude goes out to the developers of GRUB and GRUB4DOS who have both worked long and hard to bring a powerful and flexible bootloader to the world of open source. EasyBCD uses an internal copy of GRUB4DOS to help chainload certain operating systems and script boot-time tasks.
The following files in the EasyBCD distribution are derived from this package and governed by its license:
- profiles/grldr
- profiles/grldr.mbr
Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos/
License: GPL v2
Source Code: grub4dos-0.4.5c-2012-06-19.7z
UltraDefrag
UltraDefrag is an excellent individual file defragment utility that can be used to quickly group all clusters of a single file. EasyBCD relies on this feature to prepare disk images for booting.
The following files in the EasyBCD distribution are derived from this package and governed by its license:
- bin/udefrag.dll
- bin/udefrag.exe
- bin/udefrag-kernel.dll
- bin/zenwinx.dll
Site: http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/
License: GPL v2
Source Code: ultradefrag-4.4.0.src.7z
PLoP
The free community edition of EasyBCD ships with PLoP, a light BIOS extender, that is used to boot from network or USB.
The following files in the EasyBCD distribution are derived from this package and governed by its license:
- profiles/plop.iso
Site: http://www.plop.at/
License: Proprietary (freeware)
Source Code: N/A