The Agda Team and License

Agda 2 was originally written by Ulf Norell, partially based on code from Agda 1 by Catarina Coquand and Makoto Takeyama, and from Agdalight by Ulf Norell and Andreas Abel.

Agda 2 is currently actively developed mainly by (in alphabetical order):

  • Andreas Abel
  • Guillaume Allais
  • Liang-Ting Chen
  • Jesper Cockx
  • Nils Anders Danielsson
  • Víctor López Juan
  • Ulf Norell
  • Andrés Sicard-Ramírez
  • Andrea Vezzosi
  • Tesla Ice Zhang

Agda 2 has received major contributions by the following developers, amongst others. Some contributors have pioneered a feature which shall be mentioned here. But many have worked on these features for improvements and maintenance.

  • Andreas Abel: termination checker, sized types, irrelevance, copatterns
  • Guillaume Allais: warnings, pattern guards, standard library 1.0
  • Stevan Andjelkovic: LaTeX backend
  • Miëtek Bak: Agda logo
  • Marcin Benke: original “Alonzo” compiler to Haskell
  • Jean-Philippe Bernardy: syntax declarations
  • Guillaume Brunerie
  • James Chapman
  • Liang-Ting Chen: github workflows
  • Jesper Cockx: rewriting, unification --without-K
  • Catarina Coquand: Agda 1
  • Matthew Daggitt: standard library 1.0
  • Nils Anders Danielsson: efficient positivity checker, HTML backend, highlighting, standard library
  • Dominique Devriese: instance arguments
  • Péter Diviánszky: web frontent, variable declarations
  • Robert Estelle
  • Olle Fredriksson: Epic compiler backend
  • Paolo Giarrusso
  • Adam Gundry: pattern synonyms
  • Daniel Gustafsson: Epic compiler backend
  • Philipp Hausmann: treeless compiler, UHC compiler backend, testsuite runner, Travis CI
  • Kuen-Bang Hou “favonia”
  • Patrik Jansson
  • Alan Jeffrey: JavaScript compiler backend
  • Wolfram Kahl
  • Wen Kokke
  • John Leo
  • Fredrik Lindblad: Agsy proof search “Auto”
  • Víctor López Juan: “tog” prototype, markdown frontend, documentation*
  • Ting-Gan Lua
  • Francesco Mazzoli: “tog” prototype*
  • Stefan Monnier
  • Guilhem Moulin: highlighting
  • Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg: pattern lambdas, warnings
  • Ulf Norell: Agda 2
  • Nicolas Pouillard: module record expressions
  • Benjamin Price
  • Jonathan Prieto: Agda package manager
  • Nobuo Yamashita
  • Christian Sattler
  • Andrés Sicard-Ramírez: Agda releases, Travis CI
  • Makoto Takeyama: Agda 1, Emacs mode, “MAlonzo” compiler to Haskell, serialization
  • Andrea Vezzosi: Cubical Agda, Agda-flat, Agda-parametric
  • Noam Zeilberger: pattern lambdas
  • Tesla Ice Zhang

The full list of contributors (more than 140) is available at https://github.com/agda/agda/graphs/contributors .

The Agda license is here.