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  "name": "Kaitai Struct",
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    "Provide a .ksy specification or adapt an existing format description; Kaitai generates parsers from that description rather than discovering unknown protocol semantics automatically.",
    "The stable 0.11 universal compiler runs on Linux, macOS and Windows with Java 8+; Java 21 LTS is recommended. Generated parsers also need the selected language's Kaitai runtime.",
    "Compiler and visualizer are GPL-3.0-or-later; runtimes have separate licenses, including MIT and Apache-2.0. Compiler licensing does not impose its license on input specifications or generated output."
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    "需要提供 .ksy 规范，或改编已有格式描述；Kaitai 根据规范生成解析器，不会自动发现未知协议的语义。",
    "稳定版 0.11 通用编译器可在 Linux、macOS 和 Windows 上运行，需要 Java 8+，推荐 Java 21 LTS；生成的解析器还需要目标语言的 Kaitai 运行库。",
    "编译器与可视化工具采用 GPL-3.0-or-later，运行库分别采用 MIT、Apache-2.0 等许可证；编译器许可证不会因此强制施加于输入规范或生成结果。"
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