veld Copyright (c) 2026 xinluw This product is licensed under the MIT License (see the LICENSE file). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Trademark notice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ veld is an independent, clean-room reimplementation of an HTTP server in the Rust programming language. It is NOT affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or derived from the source code of NGINX. "NGINX" is a registered trademark of F5, Inc. Any references to "nginx" in this project (for example "nginx-compatible configuration", or performance comparisons against "nginx 1.18") are used solely in a descriptive and nominative sense to indicate configuration-syntax compatibility and to identify the software being compared. Such use does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by F5, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Origin of the code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ veld was written from scratch in Rust. Its architecture and configuration syntax are inspired by the design and public behavior of nginx, but it does not incorporate or translate any source code from the nginx project. Copyright protects the expression of source code, not the ideas, algorithms, protocols (HTTP/1.1) or configuration grammar that veld re-implements independently. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Third-party dependencies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ veld is built on the Rust crate ecosystem (including tokio and rustls). Binary distributions statically link these dependencies; their licenses and copyright notices are reproduced in THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md.