Licenses, Thanks and Attribution

ztd.text is dual-licensed under either the Apache 2 License, or a corporate license if you bought it with special support. See the LICENSE file or your copy of the corporate license agreement for more details!

Third-party Dependencies and Code

All third-party code is listed in the NOTICE file. It is also reproduced here. In particular:

• Martin Moene; span-lite (Boost 1.0 License) - Code included directly and made available if a C++20 <span> is not present.

We thank Martin Moene for their hard work.

Previous and Related Works

Previous attempts at text and text handling libraries were made by various authors. We note them here:

• Tom Honermann; text_view.

• Zach Laine; Boost.Text.

• Henri Sivonen; encoding_rs.

• rmf; libogonek.

Their work was groundbreaking when it first came about and employed similar concepts found in this library. We thank them for their efforts in moving Text Encoding, Unicode, and Systems Programming forward.

Helping Hands

Whether it’s just a little bit of time, a point towards the right direction, or some ideas, this library builds upon a lot of collective knowledge and effort. Here we list some of the filks who have spent some time doing this best to make sure we have the greatest text library on the planet for C++:

• CopperSpice; Talking over many of their design struggles with trying to make better text in CopperSpice/Qt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_kD-qAkoH0)

• Luna & Lambda Kitten: Kick-starting better support for Clang / Apple (https://twitter.com/lambdakitten/status/1418240846638485510)

• Much of rmf and Henri Sivonen’s writings and thoughts on the subjects of Unicode.

• All of Tom Honermann’s previous work on Unicode, Text Processing, and Standardization.

Charitable Contributions

ztd.text has been made possible by charitable contributions from patrons and sponsors around the world:

• Shepherd’s Oasis, LLC (https://soasis.org)

• Jane Lusby

• Orfeas Zafeiris

• Tom Honermann

• Lily Foster

• Camilla Löwy

• Leonardo Lima

• Piotr Piatkowski

• Cynthia Coan

• Johan Andersson

• Erekose Craft

• Christopher Crouzet

• Michael Schellenberger Costa

• Turig Eret

• Brent Beer

• Matt Godbolt

• Erica Brescia

• Carol Chen

• Jeremy Jung

• Max Stoiber

• Evan Lock

• Anil Kumar

• Vincent Weevers

• Ólafur Waage

• Jeff Trull

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• Douglas Creager

• superfunc

• Michael Caisse

• Joshua Fisher

• Billy O’Neal

• Sy Brand

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• Michał Dominiak

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• Jimmy “junoravin”

• Joel Falcou

• Pascal Menuet

• Elias Daler

• Randomnetcat

• Robert Maynard

• Martin Hořeňovský

• Hana Dusíková

• 7 more private sponsors

• And many, many more!

(If you are new to being a patron, sponsor, or donator and you don’t see your name here, I may have bungled the export list, so please e-mail opensource@soasis.org!)