SYNESIS
Copyright (c) 2011-2026 Christian Maciel de Britto
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1431-3924

This product includes software and conceptual architecture developed by
Christian Maciel de Britto.

The Synesis compiler is the formal culmination of a research and development
trajectory spanning more than a decade. The predecessor works listed below
contributed the architecture, domain vocabulary, and methodological
requirements that Synesis formalizes. All of them are authored solely by
Christian Maciel de Britto, who retains full copyright in each.

This file records the formal copyright notices for those predecessor works.
It is informational: the license terms applicable to the Synesis software as
distributed are those stated in the LICENSE file.


PREDECESSOR WORKS
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BDM - Banco de Dados Multimodal (2011-2013)
  Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Christian Maciel de Britto
  Master's dissertation, Universidade Federal do Parana (UFPR).
  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10686.10563
  Contribution: first definition of sources, items, factors, relations,
  ontology, and knowledge graph as an integrated structure.

SocioAtlas (2016-2018)
  Copyright (c) 2016-2018 Christian Maciel de Britto
  Doctoral thesis, Universidade Federal do Parana (UFPR).
  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26449.17760
  Contribution: CAQDAS ecosystem integrating annotations, audit trails,
  Zotero, georeferenced data, and knowledge graph visualization.

DSAP annotation pipeline (2019-2020)
  Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Christian Maciel de Britto
  Professional consultancy, environmental sector.
  Contribution: first professional validation of the audit trail
  corpus -> item -> summary -> theme -> score.

SocioAtlas para Google Sheets (2022)
  Copyright (c) 2022 Christian Maciel de Britto
  Independent development, Google Workspace Marketplace.
  Contribution: collaborative access and portability; first attempt at
  systematic theological annotation within the same framework.

DGT.7 pipeline (2024)
  Copyright (c) 2024 Christian Maciel de Britto
  Independent development.
  Contribution: text-file knowledge representation; exposed the need for
  a formal, readable, validatable syntax.


THIRD-PARTY DEPENDENCIES
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Synesis depends on third-party packages that are not covered by the
copyright notices above. Each is distributed under its own license by its
respective copyright holders:

  lark            MIT
  bibtexparser    LGPLv3 OR BSD
  regex           Apache-2.0
  click           BSD-3-Clause
  openpyxl        MIT
  tomli           MIT        (installed only on Python < 3.11)

These dependencies are not redistributed as part of this source
repository; they are resolved at installation time.


Full history:
  https://synesis-lang.github.io/synesis-docs/en/explanation/about.html
  https://synesis-lang.github.io/synesis-docs/pt/explanation/sobre.html
