# ALIFE Collection — licenses and third-party materials

## Scope of the project MIT license

The root LICENSE applies to original software portions authored for ALIFE Collection: simulation implementations, browser integration, interfaces, and original generated presets. It does not replace or relicense third-party code, model weights, pattern/rule data, or other third-party materials.

Research ideas and mathematical rules are credited in each simulator's guide. A research citation alone does not grant permission to copy its code, illustrations or datasets. No claim of endorsement or exclusive ownership of the underlying scientific models is made.

Standalone editorial text, logos, images (including og-image.png), trademarks, and third-party services are not covered by the root software license. This inventory is not a warranty that every historical contribution's provenance has been independently verified.

## Bundled third-party materials

| Files | Source / owner | License and notices |
| --- | --- | --- |
| evogym/core.js (shared actuator edge averaging) | EvolutionGym/evogym, jagdeepsb; adapted to JavaScript | MIT; evogym/LICENSE-EvoGym.txt and evogym/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md |
| lenia/orbium-data.js | Bert Chan, Chakazul/Lenia; four decoded Orbium patterns | MIT; lenia/LICENSE-Lenia.txt and lenia/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md |
| nca/ca.js | Growing Neural Cellular Automata authors; original inference code | Apache-2.0; nca/licenses/APACHE-2.0.txt |
| nca/models/*.json | Growing Neural Cellular Automata; nine pretrained models | Repository CC BY 4.0; nca/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.txt |
| nca/vendor/twgl.min.js | Gregg Tavares, TWGL 4.24.0 | MIT; nca/licenses/TWGL-MIT.txt |
| langtons-loops/rules.js | CellPyLib, Luis M. Antunes; adapted rule and seed data | Apache-2.0; langtons-loops/LICENSE-CellPyLib.txt |

Detailed source revisions and changes: [NCA](nca/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md), [Langton's Loops](langtons-loops/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md), [Lenia](lenia/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md).

The PPS presets were generated by this project's implementation. The newer Particle Lenia, SmoothLife, neuroevolution, Vicsek and differential-growth implementations do not bundle code from Keiwan's Evolution or EvoGym.

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## 日本語

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