# Credits & License Attributions

This project is developed and maintained by **IntelliDeep Labs**.

## 🏢 Authors & Cofounders

* **B-GUST** (Co-founder / Lead Developer): [github.com/B-GUST](https://github.com/B-GUST)
* **luiserb** (Co-founder / Architect): [github.com/luiserb](https://github.com/luiserb)

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## 🤖 Model Sources & Licenses

NLProxy runs its semantic prompt compression fully offline using the **all-MiniLM-L6-v2** Sentence-Transformer models. 

* **Model Source**: Downloaded directly from our official release tag: [GitHub Release - free_models](https://github.com/intellideep/nlproxy/releases/tag/free_models)
* **Original Creator**: Developed by the [Sentence-Transformers](https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers) team and optimized for ONNX by [Xenova](https://huggingface.co/Xenova).
* **Model License**: [Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

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## 📜 Open Source Libraries Used

We gratefully attribute and respect the licenses of the following open-source dependencies:

### Rust Ecosystem
1. **Candle Inference Engine**: A minimalist ML framework developed by Hugging Face (MIT / Apache-2.0).
2. **Linfa / Linfa-Clustering**: A Rust machine learning framework (MIT / Apache-2.0).
3. **NAPI-RS**: Rust framework for building native Node.js addons (MIT).
4. **PyO3 & Maturin**: Python bindings for Rust (Apache-2.0 / MIT).

### Python Ecosystem
1. **FastAPI & Uvicorn**: High-performance Python web framework (MIT).
2. **Pydantic**: Data validation and settings management (MIT).
3. **Redis / Redis-py**: Client for semantic cache storage (MIT).
4. **spaCy**: Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (MIT).
5. **httpx**: Fully featured HTTP client for Python 3 (BSD-3-Clause).

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