# Credits & Acknowledgements

## Intro

Lilush stands on the shoulders of giants, and
would not be possible without the following projects:

## Third-Party Libraries

| Library | License | Copyright |
|---|---|---|
| [LuaJIT](https://luajit.org/) | MIT | (c) 2005-2026 Mike Pall |
| [lua-cjson](https://github.com/mpx/lua-cjson) | MIT | (c) 2010-2012 Mark Pulford |
| [BearSSL](https://bearssl.org/) | MIT | (c) Thomas Pornin |
| [TweetNaCl](https://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/) | Public Domain | (c) Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange, Peter Schwabe |
| [WireGuard](https://www.wireguard.com/) | LGPL-2.1+ | (c) 2008-2012 Pablo Neira Ayuso, (c) 2015-2020 Jason A. Donenfeld |
| [miniz](https://github.com/richgel999/miniz) | MIT / Unlicense | (c) 2013-2014 RAD Game Tools and Valve Software, (c) 2010-2014 Rich Geldreich and Tenacious Software LLC |

### Licensing Notes

Lilush is licensed under **OWL v1.0+**.
See the `LICENSE` and `LICENSING` files in the repository root for
full details.

**LuaJIT** is MIT-licensed. Its copyright notice and license text are
preserved in its source directory.

**BearSSL** -- Selected cryptographic primitives (AES, ECDSA P-256/P-384/P-521,
RSA verify, SHA-256, HMAC, HMAC-DRBG, GHASH, and supporting big-integer
arithmetic) are extracted from BearSSL and used in the LITLS stack. BearSSL is
MIT-licensed. The original copyright headers are preserved in the extracted
source files under `src/litls/bearssl/`.

**TweetNaCl** -- X25519 key exchange and Ed25519 signatures are based on
TweetNaCl, which is public domain. The original authors' notice is preserved
in `src/litls/litls_ed25519.c` and `src/litls/litls_x25519.c`.

**miniz** is dual-licensed (MIT / Unlicense). It is a multi-file zlib replacement
used for deflate/inflate compression, gzip support, and CRC-32/Adler-32 checksums.
The original copyright notice and license text are preserved in its source files.

**WireGuard** -- Lilush includes a couple of files (C file and the headers) from the
[wireguard-tools](https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools) project, licensed
under LGPL-2.1+. The complete corresponding source is available as part of this
repository. The original copyright notices and SPDX identifier are
preserved in the file.

If you have questions about licensing, contact: license@lilush.link

## Inspirations

[Antirez post](https://antirez.com/news/74) about [linenoise](https://github.com/antirez/linenoise) made
me think about the whole domain of line-editing/input libs and input behavior in TUIs.

The build system was inspired by [The Boston Diaries](https://boston.conman.org/)
blog post.

The TSS system was obviously inspired by CSS, but adapted
to the harsh realms of terminal.

Syntax highlighting design in LEM is built around the ideas 
[Tonsky](https://tonsky.me/about/) voiced in his [post](https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/)
on this topic.

## AI contributions

As Linus Torvalds put it, 100% of my code is written by the compiler.

The project was started around 2022, LLMs were not that usable 
for coding assistance at that time, so it was a regular human 
doing good ol' traditional coding.

Nowadays I do have various AI-tools included in my pipeline, 
thus it's a regular human, but doing AI-assisted coding.

Not to be confused with "vibe-coding", that's a different animal. 
For one thing, there are no emojis in AI-assited coding. Other 
differences are left as an exercise for the reader.