# Acknowledgements

MabeLabRS is a Rust port inspired by:

- **MABE2** (https://github.com/mercere99/MABE2)  
  Copyright (c) 2016–present Charles Ofria and MABE contributors  
  Licensed under the MIT License.

- **Empirical** (https://github.com/devosoft/Empirical)  
  Copyright (c) 2014–present Charles Ofria and Empirical contributors  
  Licensed under the MIT License.

This project is independent and not officially affiliated with the upstream
projects, but it draws architectural concepts and design inspiration from them.

We gratefully acknowledge the work of the original authors and contributors.