chore: license and credits

CREDITS.md

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+# Credits
+
+Noctalia is made possible by the incredible work of many open-source projects and contributors.
+
+## Design & Branding
+
+- **MrDowntempo** - Creator of the Noctalia Owl and moon logo
+- **[SaberJ2X](https://www.reddit.com/user/SaberJ64/)** - Creator of Talia, the Noctalia mascot
+
+## Runtime Dependencies
+
+### System Integration
+- **[wlsunset](https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/wlsunset/)** - Night light and blue light filter support
+- **[ddcutil](https://www.ddcutil.com/)** - External display brightness control
+
+### Media & Audio
+- **[gpu-screen-recorder](https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/)** - Hardware-accelerated screen recording
+
+## Icons
+- **[Tabler Icons](https://tabler.io/icons)** - Icon set used throughout the shell
+- **[Riyan Resdian on Noun Project](https://thenounproject.com/creator/yaicon/)** - Plug icon
+
+## Audio Assets
+- **[Universfield on Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/users/universfield-28281460/)** - Notification sound effect
+- **[Lucas McCallister on Freesound](http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=67091)** - Volume change feedback sound effect
+
+## Special Thanks
+- The **Wayland** community for building the future of Linux desktop graphics
+- The **Niri**, **Hyprland**, **Sway**, **Labwc**, and **MangoWC** teams for their excellent Wayland compositors
+- All the contributors and users who have helped make Noctalia better
+
+## License
+Noctalia is licensed under the MIT License. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.
+
+Each dependency listed above is governed by its own respective license. Please refer to their individual projects for licensing information.

LICENSE

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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2026 noctalia-dev
+
+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
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+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.

meson_options.txt

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-# All options are Meson built-ins:
-#   -Db_sanitize=address,undefined  enable ASan + UBSan
-#   -Db_lto=true                    enable LTO (used for release builds)