# Credits

Noctalia is made possible by the incredible work of many open-source projects and contributors.

## Design & Branding

- **MrDowntempo** — Creator of the Noctalia Owl and moon logo
- **[SaberJ2X](https://www.reddit.com/user/SaberJ64/)** — Creator of Talia, the Noctalia mascot
- **[Tabler Icons](https://tabler.io/icons)** — Icon set used throughout the shell
- **[Riyan Resdian on Noun Project](https://thenounproject.com/creator/yaicon/)** — Plug icon
- **[@StrayRogue](https://x.com/StrayRogue)** — Creator of the original Bongo Cat artwork used by the bongocat widget

## Audio Assets

- **[Universfield on Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/users/universfield-28281460/)** — Notification sound effect
- **[Lucas McCallister on Freesound](http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=67091)** — Volume change feedback sound effect

## System Libraries

Linked dynamically at runtime when required or enabled:

- **[Wayland](https://wayland.freedesktop.org/)** (`wayland-client`, `wayland-protocols`, `wayland-egl`) — Display protocol
- **[Mesa / EGL / GLES2](https://www.mesa3d.org/)** (or **[libepoxy](https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy)** as fallback) — OpenGL ES context and dispatch
- **[Cairo](https://www.cairographics.org/)** — 2D graphics surface used for text and SVG rasterization
- **[Pango](https://pango.gnome.org/)** / **PangoCairo** — Text layout and shaping
- **[HarfBuzz](https://harfbuzz.github.io/)** — OpenType font metrics used for stable text alignment
- **[FreeType](https://freetype.org/)** — Font rasterization
- **[Fontconfig](https://www.fontconfig.org/)** — Font discovery
- **[librsvg](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/LibRsvg)** — SVG rendering (filters, clipPaths, masks)
- **[GLib / GObject / GIO](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib)** — Core utilities used by Pango/Cairo/librsvg
- **[libxkbcommon](https://xkbcommon.org/)** — Keyboard handling
- **[sdbus-c++](https://github.com/Kistler-Group/sdbus-cpp)** — D-Bus client bindings
- **[PipeWire](https://pipewire.org/)** — Audio capture and playback
- **[libcurl](https://curl.se/libcurl/)** — HTTP client
- **[libwebp](https://developers.google.com/speed/webp)** — WebP decoding and thumbnail/notification image encoding
- **[libqalculate](https://qalculate.github.io/)** — Calculator engine for the launcher (arithmetic, unit and currency conversion) (GPL-2.0-or-later)
- **[libxml2](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2)** — XML parser used to read CalDAV responses (MIT)
- **[polkit](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit)** (`polkit-agent`, `polkit-gobject`) — Authentication agent
- **[Linux-PAM](https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam)** — Lockscreen authentication
- **[jemalloc](https://jemalloc.net/)** — Optional memory allocator used on glibc builds when detected

## Vendored Libraries

Bundled in `third_party/` and built from source:

- **[dr_wav](https://github.com/mackron/dr_libs)** — Single-file WAV decoder (MIT-0 / public domain)
- **[fzy](https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy)** — Fuzzy matching algorithm used by the launcher, search pickers, and other shell ranking (MIT)
- **[Luau](https://luau.org/)** — Lua dialect used for scripting (MIT)
- **[Material Color Utilities](https://github.com/material-foundation/material-color-utilities)** — Material 3 palette generation (Apache-2.0)
- **[nlohmann/json](https://github.com/nlohmann/json)** — JSON for Modern C++ (MIT)
- **[stb](https://github.com/nothings/stb)** — Single-file utilities, primarily image I/O (MIT / public domain)
- **[toml++](https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus)** — TOML parser (MIT)
- **[Wuffs](https://github.com/google/wuffs)** — Memory-safe image decoders (Apache-2.0)

## System Integration

External tools Noctalia integrates with at runtime when present:

- **[ddcutil](https://www.ddcutil.com/)** — External display brightness control
- **[gpu-screen-recorder](https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/)** — Hardware-accelerated screen recording

## Special Thanks

- The **Wayland** community for building the future of Linux desktop graphics
- The **Niri**, **Hyprland**, **Sway**, **Labwc**, and **MangoWC** teams for their excellent Wayland compositors
- All the contributors and users who have helped make Noctalia better

## License

Noctalia is licensed under the MIT License. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.

Each dependency listed above is governed by its own respective license. Please refer to their individual projects for licensing information.
