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== Organization and licensing ==
The XBMC Foundation is the organization behind the Kodi and XBMC projects. It is legally represented by the [[Software Freedom Law Center]] (SFLC), which assists the Kodi/XBMC project and its developers in legal matters such as [[intellectual property]]. It also assists with economic issues such as handling donations and sponsors that help the project with expenses for [[dedicated hosting service]] and activities such as going to developer conferences, trade fairs and computer expos to tech demo Kodi, meeting with potential new developers, and marketing the software.

Kodi's source code is primarily licensed under [[GNU General Public License]]s, XBMC core is specifically released as "GPL-2.0-or-later", and is hosted through publicly available [[Git (software)|Git]] repositories. Add-ons, plug-ins and additional extensions such as skins that are released as official resources made by the Kodi project members are released under [[Comparison of free and open-source software licenses|various free and open source licenses]].