Authors
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The Pioneer Developers are:

* Aaron Lewis
* Aaron Senese
* Abram Hindle
* Ae
* Alan Briggs
* Alan 'joonicks' Londa
* Alessandro Giachi
* Alexander Noack
* Andrew Cook
* Andrew Copland
* Andrzej Zięba
* Anton Korzun
* Antti Salonen
* Arda Güler
* Armin Kretschmer
* Asier Basagoiti
* Benamucki
* Benjamin Hodgetts
* Blaga Cosmin
* Brian Ronald
* C de Craen
* Chip Richards
* Chris Collins
* Chris Dennett
* Christian Koch
* Christian Wyss
* Claudius Mueller
* Clinton Mead
* ColdSpirit
* Connor Findlay
* Craig Thomson
* CylonicRaider
* Dan Bennett
* Darren Salt
* Denis Volk
* DerpyHooves
* Dionisis Kontominas
* Dmitry Marakasov
* Edoardo Morandi
* Emery Hemingway
* Enric Morales
* Florian Schmidt
* Fran Morton
* Francesco Corrado
* Frank Klippenberg
* Gareth Allnutt
* Gaz Davidson
* Georgi Georgiev
* Gernot
* Gisteron
* Gliese852
* HeadHunter
* hexagon-recursion (and his imaginary friend Alice Smith)
* Jan Olsina
* jmf
* Jeremy List
* John Bartholomew
* John Jordan
* Jon Booth
* Jon Jenkins
* Joshua Mathews
* Jost Triller
* K. Eugene Carlson
* Karl Fogelmark
* Kimmo Kotajärvi
* Konrad Mruk
* Krzysztof Niedźwiecki
* Kyungdahm Yun
* Lars Westerhoff
* Leandro Papi
* Lee Reilly
* Leonardo Manna
* Luca Ganzerla
* Maksim Kulikov aka sapog662
* Maksim "Maks2103" Romanov
* Marcel Tulloh
* Marcus de Roos
* Maxim aka Max5377
* McPain
* Michael Werle
* Michele Botticelli
* Michele Fanti
* Miha Vitorovič
* Nathan Jones
* Nic
* Nick Wanstall
* Oleg Ovcharenko
* Oskar Wallgren aka zonkmachine
* Paul Cercueil
* Paul Mahol
* Paul Roberts
* Peter Feigl
* Pedro Gimeno
* Peter Kurucz
* Phil Howlett
* Pieter Thielens
* Piotr Gredka
* PVJeltz
* Radek Valášek aka vaLin
* Rémi Boutemy
* Rob Williamson
* Robert Norris
* Robert Pallier
* Ron O'Dell aka Keeper1st
* Roland Mas
* Sal Borrelli
* Sean Bailey
* Simon Chopin
* SolCommand
* Stefan Kapusniak
* Steve Tyler
* Sukender (Benoit Neil)
* Szilárd Bálint
* Taiki Kim
* Tatjam
* Taylor Talkington
* Thierry Dupré
* Tim Jones
* Timothy Hills
* Tom Morton
* Torham2234
* Ulf Pettersson
* Uncle Bob
* Vakhoir
* Vincent Teerling
* Vladimir Rutsky
* Wayne Ashworth
* Webster Sheets
* 42triangles

Licensing
=========

Copyright © 2008-2025 Pioneer Developers
Portions copyright © 2013-2014 Meteoric Games Ltd.

Pioneer's core code and extension modules are licensed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License version 3. See licenses/GPL-3.txt for details.

Pioneer's art, music and other assets are licensed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. See
licenses/CC-BY-SA-3.0.txt for details.

Pioneer includes the following third-party software:

  Lua 5.2.1 by R. Ierusalimschy, L. H. de Figueiredo & W. Celes,
  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
  Licensed under the MIT licence (see contrib/lua/src/lua.h)

  GLEW: The OpenGL Extension Wrangler
  Copyright (C) 2002-2008, Milan Ikits <milan ikits[]ieee org>
  Copyright (C) 2002-2008, Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo[]debian org>
  Copyright (C) 2002, Lev Povalahev
  Licensed under the Modified BSD licence (see licenses/GLEW.txt)

  atomic_queue v1.6.4 - C++ lockless queue
  Copyright (c) 2019 Maxim Egorushkin
  Licensed under the MIT license (see contrib/atomic_queue/LICENSE)

  argh
  Copyright (C) 2016, Adi Shavit
  Licensed under the BSD 3-clause license (see licenses/BSD-3-Clause.txt)

  string-view lite, a C++17-like string_view for C++98 and later.
  https://github.com/martinmoene/string-view-lite
  Copyright 2017-2019 by Martin Moene
  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (see licenses/Boost-1.0.txt)

  miniz by Rich Geldreich, April 2012
  Public domain (see contrib/miniz/miniz.h)

  LZ4 Library
  Copyright (c) 2011-2016, Yann Collet
  Licensed under the BSD 2-Clause license (see licenses/LZ4.txt)

  lookup3.c, by Bob Jenkins, May 2006,
  Public domain (see contrib/jenkins/lookup3.c)

  vcacheopt.h
  Copyright (C) 2009, Michael Georgoulpoulos
  Licensed under the MIT licence (see contrib/vcacheopt/vcacheopt.h)

  PicoDDS
  Copyright (C) 2011 Andrew Copland
  Includes portions of the Game Texture Library (GTL)
  GTL is Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 Rob Jones
         Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Michael P. Jung
  GTL and PicoDDS are licensed under the zlib License
    (see contrib/PicoDDS/PicoDDS.h)

  JSON for Modern C++
  Copyright © 2013-2018 Niels Lohmann.
  Licensed under the MIT License (see contrib/json/json.hpp)

  Base64 Encode / Decode
  Copyright © 2013 Tomas Kislan, Adam Rudd
  Licensed under the MIT License (see contrib/base64/base64.hpp)

  fmt - open-source formatting library for C++
  Copyright (c) 2012 - present, Victor Zverovich
  Licensed under the MIT license

  doctest - The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20 single-header testing framework
  Copyright (c) 2016-2021 Viktor Kirilov
  Licensed under the MIT license

  nanosockets - Lightweight UDP sockets abstraction for rapid implementation of message-oriented protocols
  Copyright (c) 2019 Stanislav Denisov
  Licensed under the MIT license

  Portable File Dialogs
  Copyright © 2018–2022 Sam Hocevar
  Licensed under the WTFPLv2 license (http://www.wtfpl.net/)

  High Performance C++ Profiler
  https://code.google.com/p/high-performance-cplusplus-profiler/
  Licensed under the MIT license

  Pionillium Text font
  Copyright (c) 2015, Pioneer Developers
  Based on Titillium
  Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Academia di Belle Arte di Urbino - Campivisivi
  Licensed under the SIL Open Font Licence v1.1 (see licenses/SIL-1.1.txt)

  Inpionata font
  Copyright (c) 2015, Pioneer Developers
  Based on Inconsolata
  Copyright (C) 2006, Raph Levien
  Licensed under the SIL Open Font Licence v1.1 (see licenses/SIL-1.1.txt)

  Orbiteer font
  Copyright (c) 2012, Pioneer Developers
  Based on Orbitron
  Copyright (c) 2009, Matt McInerney
  Licensed under the SIL Open Font Licence v1.1 (see licenses/SIL-1.1.txt)

  Deja Vu font
  Copyright (c) 2003, Bitstream Inc.
  parts Copyright (c) 2006, Tavmjong Bah
  License: see licenses/DejaVu-license.txt

  WenWuanYi Micro Hei Font
  Copyright (c) 2008-2009 The WenQuanYi Project Board of Trusteess
  Copyright (c) 2008-2009, Qianqian Fangi [FangQ]
  Copyright (c) 2008-2009, mozbug
  Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (see licenses/Apache-2.0.txt)

  WPZOOM Developer Icon Set
  http://www.wpzoom.com/wpzoom/new-freebie-wpzoom-developer-icon-set-154-free-icons/
  Copyright (c) 2010 David Ferreira
  Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
    License (see licenses/CC-BY-SA-3.0.txt)

  Galaxy colour image
  Modified version (rotated/converted to PNG)
  http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/2353-sig05-010a-Milky-Way-Bar
  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)
  See licenses/Image Use Policy - NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.html

  Milky Way panorama ("The star map in galactic coordinates")
  Modified version (dimmed stars, converted to cube map dds)
  https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4851
  Credit:
    Ernie Wright (USRA): Lead Animator
    Laurence Schuler (ADNET): Technical Support
    Ian Jones (ADNET): Technical Support
  Public domain: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/help/ under "Copyright and Credit Information"

Acknowledgements
================

The Pioneer Developers would like to acknowledge the following fine products
and services, without which Pioneer would not be possible:

  SDL           http://www.libsdl.org/
  FreeType      http://freetype.org/
  Ogg Vorbis    http://vorbis.com/
  libsigc++     http://libsigc.sourceforge.net/
  assimp        http://assimp.sourceforge.net/
  MXE           http://mxe.cc/

  GitHub                        https://github.com/
  SourceForge                   https://sourceforge.net/
  randomColorSharped	https://github.com/nathanpjones/randomColorSharped

  OpenGameArt	http://opengameart.org (specifically http://opengameart.org/content/smoke-aura)
