License and credits

roastedDuck's own code is released under the MIT license. The full license and third-party notices are included in the repository and release archives.

This project builds on DuckDB's algorithms, interfaces, extensive tests, and community engineering. Upstream source and translated work retain their copyright notices. ICU, utf8proc, Zstandard, TPC generators, Arrow ADBC, native cryptography, and other dependencies retain their own license terms.

DuckDB is a trademark of the DuckDB Foundation. roastedDuck is independently maintained and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Foundation. References to DuckDB describe the compatibility target and upstream work. A software license does not grant rights to third-party trademarks.