# Third-party notices
The `themes/` directory contains color palettes adapted from third-party open
source projects. This file records, for each one, the upstream project, its
license, and the exact copyright line that license requires be reproduced.
Every upstream listed here was verified against its actual LICENSE file rather
than against secondhand claims. Where verification turned up a gap, the gap is
stated plainly instead of being papered over with a plausible-looking name.
## What "adapted" means
None of these files are verbatim copies. Upstream projects publish palettes as
editor themes, Vim colorschemes, or design tokens; none ship a file in
makeover's intent schema. Each theme here re-expresses an upstream palette into
that schema, mapping colors onto roles (`surface`, `content`, `action`,
`status`, `line`, `category`) and deriving interactive states perceptually. The
hex values originate upstream. The structure, role assignments, and derived
tokens are this project's work.
The adaptations are offered under this project's MIT license. The underlying
palettes remain the work of their original authors, credited below.
## Adapted themes
| `akari-dawn`, `akari-night` | [Akari](https://github.com/cappyzawa/akari-theme) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2025 Shu Kutsuzawa |
| `ayu-mirage` | [Ayu](https://github.com/dempfi/ayu) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2016 Ike Kurghinyani |
| `ayu-light` | [ayu-colors](https://github.com/ayu-theme/ayu-colors) | MIT | Copyright (c) Konstantin Pschera \<me@kons.ch\> |
| `carbonfox`, `dawnfox`, `nightfox` | [nightfox.nvim](https://github.com/EdenEast/nightfox.nvim) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2021 James Simpson |
| `catppuccin-frappe`, `catppuccin-latte`, `catppuccin-macchiato`, `catppuccin-mocha` | [Catppuccin](https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2021 Catppuccin |
| `dracula` | [Dracula](https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2023 Dracula Theme |
| `everforest` | [Everforest](https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2019 sainnhe |
| `flatwhite` | [flatwhite-syntax](https://github.com/biletskyy/flatwhite-syntax) | MIT (see note) | no holder named upstream |
| `gruvbox-dark`, `gruvbox-light` | [gruvbox](https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox) | MIT/X11 asserted (see note) | no holder named upstream |
| `kanagawa` | [kanagawa.nvim](https://github.com/rebelot/kanagawa.nvim) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2021 Tommaso Laurenzi |
| `nord` | [Nord](https://github.com/nordtheme/nord) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2016-present Sven Greb \<development@svengreb.de\> |
| `one-dark` | [Atom One Dark](https://github.com/atom/one-dark-syntax) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2016 GitHub Inc. |
| `oxocarbon-dark`, `oxocarbon-light` | [oxocarbon.nvim](https://github.com/nyoom-engineering/oxocarbon.nvim) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2022 Riccardo Mazzarini |
| `poimandres` | [poimandres-theme](https://github.com/drcmda/poimandres-theme) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2023 drcmda |
| `rosepine`, `rosepine-dawn` | [Rosé Pine](https://github.com/rose-pine/neovim) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2023 Rosé Pine |
| `solarized-dark` | [Solarized](https://github.com/altercation/solarized) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2011 Ethan Schoonover |
| `tokyonight` | [Tokyo Night](https://github.com/tokyo-night/tokyo-night-vscode-theme) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2018-present Enkia |
Several of these credit a person where the project is better known by a GitHub
handle, because the license names the person: nightfox.nvim is James Simpson
(handle EdenEast), oxocarbon.nvim is Riccardo Mazzarini (hosted under the
nyoom-engineering org), and Atom One Dark is GitHub Inc.
## Notes on incomplete upstream licensing
Two upstreams assert permissive terms but provide no copyright holder, so there
is no line to reproduce. Both are long-established and widely redistributed as
MIT. They are included on that basis, with the gap recorded rather than filled
in by guesswork.
**gruvbox** ships no LICENSE file. Its README states only "MIT/X11", linking to
a Wikipedia article rather than to license text, and names no holder. Pavel
Pertsev (morhetz) is the repository owner and apparent author, but that name
appears in no license document.
**flatwhite-syntax** ships an MIT license whose holder field was never filled
in; it reads literally `<Your name here>`. biletskyy is the repository owner and
apparent author.
If you maintain either project, we would gladly correct this entry: adding or
completing a LICENSE file upstream is all it takes.
## Removed
**Material Palenight** was previously bundled and has been removed. It was
credited to Mattia Astorino under MIT; both fields were wrong. The original
Material Theme was retroactively relicensed to proprietary terms in February
2025 with its commit history rewritten, and its repository path now redirects to
a commercial product. A genuinely MIT-licensed unofficial port exists
([whizkydee/vscode-palenight-theme](https://github.com/whizkydee/vscode-palenight-theme),
Copyright (c) 2017-present Olaolu Olawuyi), but it derives from that same
palette, so the chain of permission cannot be audited. The theme was dropped
rather than shipped on an unverifiable basis.
## Original themes
`akari-dawn` and `akari-night` are adaptations, listed above. The following are
this project's own work and carry no third-party claim:
- `makenotwork` — the makenot.work platform palette
- `goingson` — the GoingsOn application palette
- `audiofiles` — the audiofiles application palette, a Mac OS 8 Platinum tribute
- `high-contrast` — an accessibility-oriented palette
- `neobrute` — a cooler-toned light palette sharing an ancestry with `goingson`
## Corrections
If any attribution here is wrong, incomplete, or you would prefer your work not
be included, open a ticket or write to info@makenot.work and it will be
corrected or removed.