Open Source Licenses & Attributions
Last Updated: May 8, 2026
The SwiftQuantum ecosystem is built on the work of many open-source
communities. We list below the libraries and standards we depend on,
with their licenses and links to canonical project pages. This is not
an exhaustive list — see each app's Acknowledgements screen for the
per-app dependency list — but covers the substantive components.
Web platforms
| Library | License | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| Next.js | MIT | All web apps (swiftquantum.tech, quantumnative-edu.swiftquantum.tech, legal.swiftquantum.tech, SwiftQuantumAdmin) |
| React, React DOM | MIT | All web apps |
| Tailwind CSS | MIT | All web apps |
| Framer Motion | MIT | swiftquantum.tech, quantumnative-edu.swiftquantum.tech |
| MDX, remark, rehype, gray-matter | MIT | legal.swiftquantum.tech (this site) |
iOS / macOS / visionOS apps
| Library | License | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| SwiftUI, Foundation, Combine | Apple SDK License | All Swift apps |
| Swift standard library | Apache 2.0 with Runtime Library Exception | All Swift apps |
| swift-collections | Apache 2.0 | SwiftQuantum, QuantumNative |
| swift-numerics | Apache 2.0 | SwiftQuantum, Q-Alpha |
| swift-algorithms | Apache 2.0 | SwiftQuantum |
| swift-package-manager (build only) | Apache 2.0 | All Swift apps |
| Foundation Models (Apple) | Apple SDK License | SwiftQuantum (Coherence Module) |
| Core ML | Apple SDK License | QuantumNative (HallucinationGuard backstop) |
Backends and SDKs
| Library | License | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| FastAPI | MIT | swiftquantum-link-python, SwiftQuantum_Backend, QuantumNative_Backend, SwiftQuantum_legal, agi-core |
| Pydantic | MIT | All Python backends |
| SQLAlchemy, Alembic | MIT | SwiftQuantum_Backend, QuantumNativeBackend_common |
| Uvicorn | BSD-3-Clause | All Python backends |
| APScheduler | MIT | SwiftQuantum_legal |
| BeautifulSoup4, requests | MIT, Apache 2.0 | SwiftQuantum_legal (web scraper) |
Quantum computing standards and SDKs
We integrate with quantum hardware and software stacks under each provider's terms:
- IBM Quantum (Qiskit ecosystem) — Apache 2.0; usage subject to IBM Quantum terms.
- IonQ — proprietary cloud terms.
- Rigetti Computing (Forest / pyQuil) — Apache 2.0; usage subject to Rigetti cloud terms.
- OpenQASM 3 — open specification.
- QIR (Quantum Intermediate Representation) — open specification governed by the QIR Alliance.
Cryptographic primitives
We follow NIST and ISO standards for cryptography:
- FIPS 203 (ML-KEM), FIPS 204 (ML-DSA), FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA) — finalized 13 August 2024.
- HQC — selected as the 5th post-quantum algorithm in March 2025; draft standard expected early 2026.
- FIPS 206 (FN-DSA / FALCON) — in development.
- AES-256, SHA-2, SHA-3 — FIPS 197, 180-4, 202.
- Argon2id for password hashing — RFC 9106.
We are migrating active web-service traffic to ML-KEM hybrid TLS during 2026 to align with NSA CNSA 2.0 timelines. PQC migration progress is documented in each app's release notes.
Knowledge base citations
The QuantumNative EDU 134-concept knowledge base (preskill-24-v12.0.2-qce26-aligned)
is hand-curated by Park Eun Min (IEEE Member) and is anchored to
John Preskill, Quantum Information (24-part lecture notes) as the
primary reference, with cross-references to Nielsen & Chuang, Quantum
Computation and Quantum Information (Cambridge University Press) and
peer-reviewed quantum-computing literature. Citations are listed inside
each concept JSON file under citationReferences.
Trademarks
- SwiftQuantum, QuantumNative, Q-Bridge, QuantumCareer, Q-Alpha, Q-Shield, Q-Logos, Q-Bio Genesis are trademarks of MQuantum / SwiftQuantum.
- Apple, iOS, macOS, visionOS, App Store, Swift are trademarks of Apple Inc.
- Google, Google Play, Google Analytics, Android are trademarks of Google LLC.
- Anthropic, Claude are trademarks of Anthropic PBC.
- IBM, Qiskit are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.
- NIST, FIPS are credited to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce.
All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Reference to a trademark does not imply endorsement.
Source code
Where a library is licensed under a copyleft license (LGPL, GPL, AGPL), we either avoid it or comply with its source-availability requirements. At present none of our products ship copyleft-licensed components linked into the binary; we use only permissive licenses (MIT, Apache, BSD).
Reporting an attribution issue
If you believe a project we depend on is missing from this page, please write to legal@swiftquantum.tech with the project name and license link. We will correct within 30 days.