CREDITS.md

This file's intent is to centralize credit to organizations, individuals, and to code + libraries + tools used. For all new source contributions please give copyright attribution to "Ren-C Open Source Contributors". Include any new credits in pull requests as a modification to this file.

NOTE The project has also benefited from significant supporting work outside this code repository by members of the community--too numerous to list here!

CREDITS

Originators of REBOL

Carl Sassenrath, Rebol Technologies

• http://www.rebol.com
• @carls on GitHub

REBOL is a trademark of REBOL Technologies

Rebol 3 Alpha was released to the open-source community under an Apache 2 license on 12-Dec-2012:

Code Contributors

Contributors to this project are encouraged to add/edit entries here, with a one-line summary and a link to a landing webpage of their choice:

Andreas Bolka

• @earl on GitHub
• http://rebolsource.net
• 64-bit and other porting, build farm, core design, core patches, test suite...

Barry Walsh

• @draegtun on GitHub
• http://draegtun.com
• CHANGES.md automation, Console skinner, command-line & other start-up changes.

Brian Dickens

• @hostilefork on GitHub
• http://hostilefork.com
• "Ren-C" branch founder, core evaluator rethinking, and design...

Brett Handley

• @codebybrett on GitHub
• http://codeconscious.com
• Libraries to parse and process Rebol's C code using Rebol, file conversions.

Brian Hawley

• @BrianHawley on GitHub
• Mezzanine design and module system, core patches, PARSE design for Rebol3.

Christian Ensel

• @gurzgri on GitHub
• original ODBC driver code for R3-Alpha

Giulio Lunati

• @giuliolunati on GitHub
• MAP! and hashing updates, Android builds, source serialization improvements.

Joshua Shireman

• @kealist on GitHub
• Serial port driver work (based on code by Carl Sassenrath)

Ladislav Mecir

• @ladislav on GitHub
• Advanced math and currency support, test suite, core patches, core design...

Richard Smolak

• @cyphre on GitHub
• TLS and HTTPS, Diffie-Hellman and crypto, extension model, GUI support...

Shixin Zeng

• @zsx on GitHub

• FFI library, CALL implementation, UNIX signals, native math, GUI support...

Corporate Support

Atronix Engineering, Inc

• http://www.atronixengineering.com/downloads
• David den Haring, Director of Engineering

Saphirion AG

• http://development.saphirion.com/rebol/
• Robert M.Münch, CEO, Prototype sponsoring

Third-Party Components

This aims to list all the third-party components of this distribution but may not be complete. Please amend with any corrections.

debugbreak

• Copyright (c) 2011-2021, Scott Tsai
• %src/include/debugbreak.h

dtoa

• Copyright (c) 1991, 2000, 2001 by Lucent Technologies.
• %src/core/f-dtoa.c

JPEG

• Copyright 1994-1996, Thomas G. Lane.
• %src/core/u-jpg.c
• %src/include/sys-jpg.h

LodePNG

• Copyright (c) 2005-2013 Lode Vandevenne
• %src/codecs/png/lodepng.h
• %src/codecs/png/lodepng.c

mbedTLS

• Copyright The Mbed TLS Contributors
• %extensions/crypt/mbedtls/*

qsort

• Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 The Regents of the University of California.
• %src/core/f-qsort.c

Unicode

• Copyright 2001-2004 Unicode, Inc.
• Portions used in %src/include/cells/cell-char.h
• Author: Mark E. Davis, 1994.
• Rev History: Rick McGowan, fixes & updates May 2001. Fixes & updates, Sept 2001.

ZLIB

• Copyright 1995-2017 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
• %src/core/u-zlib.c
• %src/include/sys-zlib.h