License

Snice itself is released under the MIT License. You can use it in commercial or personal projects, modify it, redistribute it, or ship it in a closed-source product. The only condition is that the copyright notice stays attached.

MIT License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Hedzer

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Bundled third-party code

Snice ships the following vendored dependencies. Their licenses apply to their respective portions:

Heroicons (MIT) — embedded SVG glyphs used as built-in default icons. © Tailwind Labs. github.com/tailwindlabs/heroicons
PDF.js (Apache 2.0) — vendored in components/pdf-viewer/ for the PDF viewer component. © Mozilla. mozilla.github.io/pdf.js
pica-route (MIT) — runtime route matcher.
tslib (0BSD) — TypeScript runtime helpers (peer dependency).

Inspiration & acknowledgments

Snice didn't appear in a vacuum. These projects shaped its design, API, or aesthetic:

Lit — the canonical web-component runtime. Snice's render pipeline is not Lit, but the lifecycle patterns share ancestry with Lit Element.
Shoelace — proved a comprehensive web-component UI kit could actually work at scale.
Tailwind CSS — the HSL color scale (50–950) we use for color primitives, and the overall token naming discipline.
Radix UI — accessibility patterns, especially around keyboard nav and focus management.
shadcn/ui — inspiration for the "copy the code into your app" philosophy, and for token conventions like --primary/--muted.
Linear & Vercel — aesthetic references for the dark theme and minimal aesthetic direction.
Material Design (M3) — reference for density, elevation, and the "on-color" text-over-fill pattern.
Atlassian Design System & Shopify Polaris — prior art for the document components (invoice, estimate, work order, receipt).
D3 & Tableau — color palette choices for the data-vis accent scale.
Heroicons, Lucide, Phosphor — icon design direction.
Packery — algorithm reference for the grid-packing layout used in snice-binpack.

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