Governance · Open-Source Attribution

Credit,
where it is due.

NextSpace Labs stands on decades of open-source work by other people. This page is our honest, standing acknowledgement of the projects our Website and products depend on, and a promise to honour their licences.

1. Our commitment

We honour the licences of every open-source project we build with. That means preserving copyright notices, including licence text where required, respecting attribution obligations, and complying with any share-alike terms that apply. Where we contribute back to the open-source ecosystem, we do so under a licence appropriate to the contribution and publish from our public repositories.

If you believe we have failed to honour an attribution or licence obligation on this Website or in any of our products, please tell us — the correction is a priority for us. Write to connect@nxtspacelabs.com with the subject line “Open Source Attribution” and we will act promptly.

2. This Website — material dependencies

The Website is largely hand-authored. It uses a small number of open-source components, listed below with their upstream licence.

Component Purpose Licence
three.js WebGL rendering for the ambient starfield scene. MIT
Google Fonts (Fraunces, Instrument Serif, Inter, JetBrains Mono) Typography. SIL Open Font Licence 1.1

Where a component above is a proprietary service (not open-source), we include it so the list is complete and honest, and mark it as vendor-licensed.

3. In-product credits

Our applications — including our Android application — ship with a dedicated “Open-Source Licences” screen inside the product. That screen enumerates every direct and transitive open-source dependency, its version, and the licence under which it is distributed. Where a licence (for example, Apache 2.0 or LGPL) requires the licence text to be included with the software, that full text is shipped inside the product.

Categories of open-source software that our products currently rely on include, without limitation:

  • Android platform libraries and Jetpack components published by the Android Open Source Project;
  • The Kotlin standard library and Kotlin coroutines;
  • Networking stacks such as OkHttp;
  • Image and media libraries such as Coil;
  • Server-side runtime, framework, and data-access components;
  • Cryptographic libraries used for transport and application-layer encryption.

The precise list evolves with each release. The version shipped inside each product is the authoritative record.

4. Third-party trademarks

Open-source projects and their trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Their names are used here for identification and attribution only, and do not imply endorsement of NextSpace Labs by those projects, or vice versa. See our Intellectual Property Notice for our broader policy on third-party marks.

5. Requesting source or a licence copy

If you would like a copy of the source code for an open-source component we distribute inside a product, or a copy of a specific licence text, write to connect@nxtspacelabs.com with the component name and the product version. Where a licence obligates us to provide such a copy, we will do so at no charge, using the delivery mechanism most appropriate to the licence.

6. Our own open contributions

Where we release code, plug-ins, or fixes back to the open-source community, we do so from our public repositories, under a licence appropriate to the contribution. Contribution activity is not made under this Website’s Terms — the licence and CLA of the receiving project governs.

7. Changes to this page

We update this page as our material Website dependencies change. Product-level dependencies are reflected in the in-product credits screen rather than here.

8. Contact

  • Attribution corrections: connect@nxtspacelabs.com
  • Postal: NextSpace Labs Private Limited, Door No 1-60/8/A & B, 3rd Floor, KNR Square, Opp. The Platina, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Hyderabad — 500 032, Telangana, India