License

Crest is licensed under the MIT License.

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

What This Means

The MIT License is a permissive license that allows you to:

✅ Use Crest commercially
✅ Modify Crest
✅ Distribute Crest
✅ Sublicense Crest
✅ Use Crest privately

The only requirements are:

Include the license and copyright notice in any copy of the software
The software is provided "as is", without warranty

Third-Party Licenses

Crest may depend on third-party libraries. Please check their respective licenses:

Check conanfile.py for Conan dependencies
Check vcpkg.json for vcpkg dependencies
Check xmake.lua for xmake dependencies

Contributing

By contributing to Crest, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the MIT License.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.