# Attribution and acknowledgements

This project is an unofficial community fan-art theme.

The Whale-chan character direction and community design language reference the **DeepSeek Whale-chan Project** by **Neko3000**. The source project’s published materials have identified CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 terms for its specifications/templates and requested attribution and non-commercial treatment of derivative character work.

Accordingly, the fan-art assets in this repository are distributed for non-commercial community use under **Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)**, subject to all underlying character, logo and trademark rights.

License summary: <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/>

Full legal code: <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode>

DeepSeek, DeepSeek Harness and related product names, logos and trademarks belong to their respective owners. This project is not created by, affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by DeepSeek.

Some visual assets were produced with AI-assisted image-generation and editing tools, followed by manual selection, processing, downsampling and UI integration. This does not transfer or override any rights in the underlying character design or trademarks.

If you are an applicable rights holder and want an attribution correction or asset removed, please open an issue in the repository.